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Jun 28, 2012, 06:34 PM
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Changing active partition
I'm installing a new hard drive (just hard drives, no SSD or anything here), to use as the main Windows partition. When that's done, I want to set it as the active partition, then start moving files from the old partition. But I've never done this before. Is it really as easy as right-clicking the drive in the storage manager, setting as "active partition," and resetting? There are tutorials floating around, but seeing as I'm messing around with hard drives, I'd rather have someone's input.
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Jul 8, 2012, 06:19 AM
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If you will let both hdd in pc, in bios select what hdd to be first to boot from(in your case , the new one),so you will have windows loading from new hdd...
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Jul 8, 2012, 07:51 AM
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Not sure if you ment this but you cant just "move" system files. So you will have to reinstall to your new HD or ghost it.
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