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2 partitions on hard drive


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rshaffer61

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You would have to remove the second drive that you don't boot with. Install the new one in it's place.
Partition it and then clone your existing main drive to it.
Then take out original main drive and move new drive to the main drive .
Then put second drive back in and at that point everything should work . If you want to copy the data over you could do that also.
From there then it would be a matter of formatting the original two drives and then you would have two drives for backup.
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is there a way to find out which one is the boot drive or is C: always the boot. I guess the master would be the boot?
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The one labeled C is normally the boot drive.
You can test this by unhooking one of the drives.
If it boots then you have the right drive.
Once you have it booted then repeat the previous steps and take another screenshot of the disk management screen with just the one drive showing.
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