Okay, please let me know the result of that test or if it fails to complete.
Boot without primary partition
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Anonymous
Hello,
My hard disk is starting to run very slow, so I'd like to boot my PC onto my ssd.
Would it be possible to change the main partition to put it on my ssd?
Thank you for your time
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Anonymous
2024-12-12T14:26:57+00:00 I clicked on command prompt and now it says please wait and it’s loading
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DaveM121 933.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor2024-12-12T14:18:43+00:00 Thank you for that information.
Click the power button on your Start Menu
Press the Shift Key and click Restart
Your PC will boot into the Windows Recovery Environment
Go to Troubleshoot - Advanced Options - Command Prompt
Type this command and press Enter:
chkdsk C: /f /r
Wait for that command to complete, run this command 3 times, one at a time.
chkntfs /x c:
Type this command and press Enter:
fsutil dirty query c:
What is returned from that command?
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Anonymous
2024-12-12T14:15:48+00:00 Hello, thanks for your response
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Yes windows is on my ssd (C), and my data is on my hdd (G).
Everytime i start my pc it detects error on the hard disk and then proceeds to analyse and repair. So i fear it will not boot one day because of this issue, that's why i would like to use it only for data.
The letter G is the hdd
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Yes i would like to not use my hdd at all when it boots, can it be possible? And how can i perform that?
Thanks for your time
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DaveM121 933.9K Reputation points Independent Advisor
2024-12-12T13:45:24+00:00 Hi, I am Dave, I will help you with this.
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In your screenshot, Windows seems to be installed on the bottom 120GB SSD drive, with the top 1TB drive used for data, is that the way your system is set up?
Is that top drive also an SSD drive, usually the data drive is an HDD.
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The only way to move a Windows installation from one drive to another is to either use a 3rd party cloning utility to clone the partitions onto the other drive, or to clean install Windows onto the other drive from a bootable USB.