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jdadian908

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A while back I decided it would be a good idea to migrate my OS to an SSD, I was currently running windows 8.1 on an HDD/SSD hybrid. I bought a software called Paragon OS Migrate, and the software migrated my OS to my newly purchased 256GB SSD. When the process was finished, there was NO room left on the SSD, maybe a few megabytes. I left it however, and windows 8.1 corrupted itself in so many ways, metro apps not responding at all, and many other things, so I tried to re-install by formatting the SSD, but it does not work. Yes, I first installed 8.1 on a different hard drive, made it the active partition, and booted windows from a separate hard drive, but when I open the disk manager, I'm not even given the option to format the hard drive. It is labled as system reserved, and is locked for all intents and purposes. Is this hard drive trash now? Or is there another way to wipe and format it?
 
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Yah, that's bad.

You can format both disks and clear the boot records with a Linux Live CD
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Just use the Gparted App and format both disks, than boot back to your Windows 8 CD and reinstall on the SSD.

You can do this from the Windows recovery disk as well, but two primary partitions are causing a conflict.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313672


Lesson;

Don't migrate Windows installations, it goes bad.

Don't go under 15% free disk space, or you risk corrupting files whenever Windows tries to make a change and there is no space.
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Alec Mowat

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Yah, that's bad.

You can format both disks and clear the boot records with a Linux Live CD
http://www.ubuntu.com/download/desktop

Just use the Gparted App and format both disks, than boot back to your Windows 8 CD and reinstall on the SSD.

You can do this from the Windows recovery disk as well, but two primary partitions are causing a conflict.
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/313672


Lesson;

Don't migrate Windows installations, it goes bad.

Don't go under 15% free disk space, or you risk corrupting files whenever Windows tries to make a change and there is no space.
 
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jdadian908

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I still have most of my system files on the first hard drive. Is there a way to set my first hard drive as the C drive, while keeping the important boot and system files on the new SSD?
 
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