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Conflict between 2 Hard Drives

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Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   -
Hello,

I have a little problem with hard drives. My PC, dating back to 2011, I decided to buy a new HDD in order to make my computer boot faster and to move files and folders more quickly.
So I installed the new hard drive next to the old one and cloned my old hard drive onto the new one to keep my files.
Having done this, I wanted to leave Windows on the old hard drive (because moving it is really a pain) but have the other hard drive simply load games, copy and paste other folders, etc... the latter being in NTFS format but considered as a “dynamic disk.”

The problem in the end is that my computer still takes as long to boot up and file transfers still happen with the old hard drive even when I'm moving files from the new one....

How can I resolve this issue?

Thank you for reading.

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    Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   9 895
     
    Hello,

    After cloning, you needed to go into the BIOS to set the new hard drive as the primary one so that the PC boots from it.

    Once in Windows, you can format the old one using disk management.
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  2. STEENWORD
     
    Yes, but how can the new disk start when it doesn't have Windows on it?
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    1. Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   9 895
       
      There must be Windows on it since you said you did the cloning.

      By the way, for a free tool, use AOMEI Backupper Standard to do the cloning.

      You don't just copy and paste files; that's not how disk cloning works from one disk to another.

      Tutorial here.
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    2. STEENWORD > Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       
      That's exactly the software I used, except that full disk cloning with Windows included is paid... I just did simple disk cloning.
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    3. Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   9 895 > STEENWORD
       
      Aomei does it for free if the hard drive has no more than 4 partitions.

      Otherwise, you need to use another software.
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    4. STEENWORD > Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
       
      My disk has 4 partitions, but as soon as I click on the system cloning to another disk, it tells me that I need to download the pro version...
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    5. buge Posted messages 1714 Status Member 405 > STEENWORD
       
      Hello,

      Indeed, according to the documentation, you need AOMEI Backupper Professional for system cloning.
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