Recent content by CalypsoArt

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

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 see the Samsung drive listed in the boot order. Eventually found where to select the drive to put it into the boot order and now the machine is starting up...

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 believe the current drive with Win 11 is a newer and faster and think I'd like to keep it there. Where do I find BCDboot?

Again, thanks for the responses. Just so I'm expressing clearly what I was hoping. Ideally, the machine would boot from the Win11 drive, C: on Disk 0, I'd reformat the Win10 D: drive partition on Disk 1, and have the E: Drive partition expand to encompass that new free space. It has been...

Thanks for your efforts, and pardon my fears. (I just got this machine running again) The instructions in post #4 are a bit intimidating for me. I'm reticent to delete boot (EFI) before being able to create one one the C: (disk 0) drive. I'm fearing I'll fail to make one and the machine will...

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 have it set to look externally for boot first. I'll check for certain when I have time. I don't use Vecto Tech drive on it, I just used it to test for the hang...

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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 machine the one that has no trouble.

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 the drive is plugged in before powering up it hangs at POST. Plugging the drive into my desktop before start up and it also hangs at POST. The drive works on...

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 slots 1x M.2 SSD slot (SATA), 1x M.2 SSD slot (NVMe PCIe Gen3), 1x M.2 SSD Combo slot (NVMe PCIe Gen3 / SATA) I believe the Win 10 was in the first NVMe slot. If...

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 thought there was a free version I used before on my Desktop? I think it came with an SSD I purchased. I used it to partition at some point, but probably...

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

My laptop (MSI GS75 Stealth 9sf) came with Win 10. Eventually I upgraded to Windows 11 on a second hard drive. I often do that so I can take my time setting up the new system while having access to the working old system. Anyway, It's been a few years and I haven't used the Win10 install in...