This is probably an easy fix, but I'm a novice at transferring data and ran into a snag. Here's the situation.
I recently bought a brand new Dell Inspiron i7449-76BLK. It came with a Sandisk 256gb SSD. I bought and installed a 850 Samsung Evo 250gb inside for extra space with the intention of transferring my data and using the new SSD, which is faster, as my primary storage drive.
Installation and migration worked perfectly, then it said to restart my PC. I did, but then it renamed my Samsung EVO "D" drive to "F". When it finished my "F" drive was offline, so I turned it back online. Both drives are now called "OS (C: )" and "OS (F: )", so I don't know which one boots the OS? I'm currently at a loss for what to do next. My C drive and F drive (which I want to rename back to D) are mirror images of each other, and instead of having my EVO as my primary storage drive the original Sandisk is still the main one. It seems like I successfully cloned everything, but nothing else?
I want to make my new Samsung EVO the primary drive (renaming it from F to D), both for booting the Operating System (Windows 10) and in general (as it is faster). I want to use my original Sandisk drive (currently C) as a backup/separate storage. Alternatively, if it's any easier, I'd like to make my F drive into my C drive and my current C drive into a separate letter drive (D).
Is there a simple way to do this a newbie like myself could use?
(Also, I know I can change my F drive's name back to D drive in Disk Management, but it says that "Some Programs that rely on drive letters might not run correctly", so I don't want to end up breaking something since I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing.)
Thank you for the help!
I recently bought a brand new Dell Inspiron i7449-76BLK. It came with a Sandisk 256gb SSD. I bought and installed a 850 Samsung Evo 250gb inside for extra space with the intention of transferring my data and using the new SSD, which is faster, as my primary storage drive.
Installation and migration worked perfectly, then it said to restart my PC. I did, but then it renamed my Samsung EVO "D" drive to "F". When it finished my "F" drive was offline, so I turned it back online. Both drives are now called "OS (C: )" and "OS (F: )", so I don't know which one boots the OS? I'm currently at a loss for what to do next. My C drive and F drive (which I want to rename back to D) are mirror images of each other, and instead of having my EVO as my primary storage drive the original Sandisk is still the main one. It seems like I successfully cloned everything, but nothing else?
I want to make my new Samsung EVO the primary drive (renaming it from F to D), both for booting the Operating System (Windows 10) and in general (as it is faster). I want to use my original Sandisk drive (currently C) as a backup/separate storage. Alternatively, if it's any easier, I'd like to make my F drive into my C drive and my current C drive into a separate letter drive (D).
Is there a simple way to do this a newbie like myself could use?
(Also, I know I can change my F drive's name back to D drive in Disk Management, but it says that "Some Programs that rely on drive letters might not run correctly", so I don't want to end up breaking something since I'm not entirely sure what I'm doing.)
Thank you for the help!
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