Moving OS (Win10) to secondary disk [please help]

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CustodianofDogs

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Not sure if this is the right board for this; please let me know if I should post it elsewhere.

Anyway, here's my problem: I've successfully cloned my HDD to my SSD, now I want to make my SSD the primary storage device and drive, as well as the drive from which the OS runs; leaving my HDD as a wiped drive purely for storage of raw data. I'd include a screenshot of my Disk Manager, but it seems like my Snipping Tool can't save images, it just crashes. I'll try to work on that in the registry, but here's the gist of my Disk Management screen:

Volume___________Layout____Type____File System_____Status__________Cap.
{blank} Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Recovery Partition) 450MB
C: Simple Basic NTFS Healthy(Boot,Page File,Crash Dump,Primary Part.)931.41GB
E: Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (Active, Primary Partition) 930.97GB
Data Simple Basic NTFS Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition) 100MB
Sys. D: Simple Basic NTFS Healthy(Primary Partition) 100MB
_____________________________________________________________________________
Disk 0 is listed as online and contains the Data and C: volumes.
Disk 1 is listed as online and contains the System Reserved D:, E: and Recovery Partition volumes.

TL;DR: How do I make my E: drive function like my C: drive is currently?
 
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Whatever OS and drive it boots from will see itself as the "C" drive.
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Should I reassign my E: drive as letter D:? I unassigned D: from System Reserved and everything's still running.
 
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Well I did exactly this, and now I'm running solely off the SSD, which is fantastic. Strange though, that my E: and System Reserved drives have disappeared from Disk Management, like they were on the HDD after all. I looked at the Volumes tab in my SSD's properties menu, and it shows the volumes C: and Data. Is it possible that changing the boot priority in BIOS could have swapped the drive letters from the HDD to the SSD?
 
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Your cloned ssd is now known as a "C" drive.
For simplicity, reattach it to the original sata port where the HDD used to reside.
Disconnect the hdd, and you should be able to boot.

Then reattach the HDD to another sata port and it should be visible.
Using disk management, you should be able to delete all partitions on the HDD and reformat it.
 
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Whatever OS and drive it boots from will see itself as the "C" drive.
 
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Ohhh, I see now. I probably should have known that, but we all learn what we need to eventually. At least now I can be absolutely sure that it's safe to wipe my E: drive for storage. I really appreciate your help.
 
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As long as your boot order is correct, and it boots directly and solely from the SSD (it does), you're good to go.
Wipe that HDD and use as needed.
 
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Roger that. Thanks again!
 
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