CalypsoArt

I downloaded MiniTool and extended the E: into all the other partitions. It worked. E: is now one partition encompassing the Win10 and...

Thanks again megahertz for your time, effort, patience, and courteous help in solving this. And that to all who responded.

Yay! Followed the instructions: Created the EFI partition as described Ran BCDboot Shut down and went into the BIOS. Initially did not...

When you say remove drive 1, do you mean physically remove it from the computer? I'm loathe to disassemble the machine again. Further, I...

I think the external is in the boot order of the 2 that wont boot.

Again, thanks for the responses. Just so I'm expressing clearly what I was hoping. Ideally, the machine would boot from the Win11 drive...

Thanks for your efforts, and pardon my fears. (I just got this machine running again) The instructions in post #4 are a bit...

Thanks all for the replies and help. BIOS and boot order sounds correct. I built the desktop Strix B550-I and Ryzen 5600. I think I did...

Nope

Vecto Tech 500gb. Shows up in Windows as Vecto Tech SCSI disk devise. Don't know. Here is Disk manager results. This is the oldest...

My 2019 MSI GS75 Stealth has no problem starting up with my 500gb USB hard-drive attached. However, I just bought a new laptop, and if...

How do I do that? I thought Disk manager would have that info somewhere, but it doesn't. This machine MSI GS75 Stealth has these m.2...

Both drives are SSD. One is a Samgsung 980 SSD 1TB, the other a WDC PC SN720 SDAPNTW-1T00. I don't have drive image software, though I...

Before I go forward with this. The windows disk manager results.