[Serious] Installing windows 8.1 from a different hard drive?

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Dominic Sisson

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I have two hard drives, I keep getting errors with the one I have my OS installed on, so Im thinking of a format.

I have the files to install windows 8.1 on my second hard drive, I was wondering if it was possible to boot the files from the second hard drive to format my main hard drive. I will attach a picture of how I think it will work.

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SuperSoph_WD
Welcome to the community, Dominic!

I think that your problem comes from the fact that you had both HDDs plugged to the motherboard when installing Windows. What you've encountered is called an OS confusion, which basically messes up the partitions and stores the Windows System files randomly across the HDDs connected to the mobo during that installation.
Unfortunately, you might want to consider re-installing Windows again, only this time unplug the secondary HDD until the process is completed. Then you might want to re-format the secondary drive through Disk Management and start fresh. If you have any data on it at the moment, I'd recommend you to back it up somewhere else beforehand.

Good luck! Let us know how it goes! :)...
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So you're formatting your Primary Disk (OS) then install the Windows 8.1 on second disk?? Better just Run the Windows 8.1 installer then there's an option to format and install Windows 8.1 on the Disk you choose
 
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SuperSoph_WD

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Welcome to the community, Dominic!

I think that your problem comes from the fact that you had both HDDs plugged to the motherboard when installing Windows. What you've encountered is called an OS confusion, which basically messes up the partitions and stores the Windows System files randomly across the HDDs connected to the mobo during that installation.
Unfortunately, you might want to consider re-installing Windows again, only this time unplug the secondary HDD until the process is completed. Then you might want to re-format the secondary drive through Disk Management and start fresh. If you have any data on it at the moment, I'd recommend you to back it up somewhere else beforehand.

Good luck! Let us know how it goes! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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