HELP - Mirrored HDD Issue Windows 10

ProReborn

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Mar 28, 2016
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Hello, I recently came into an issue where my secondary drive (HDD) became unstable and it's life span was closing in. The drive was a 1TB Toshiba HDD replaced with a 1TB WD (Great investment). I cloned the previous data from the Toshiba to the WD but can't change the WD partition letter to the old HDD's partition. It worked at first, but registry editor continually resets it to the old settings.

Any tips?

 
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Hey there, @ProReborn!

I'd suggest you go to Disk Management and check this as @mcnumpty suggested. Keep in mind that changing the drive letter assignment of an internal hard drive would require you to format and erase the data. :( You mentioned that you replaced your 'unstable' old HDD with the WD one and then cloned it. Unfortunately, though, if you were dealing with corrupted sectors and data on the old drive, the cloning procedure would basically clone those corrupted files as well. I'd strongly recommend you backup anything important from the HDD somewhere off-site and then consider reformatting it through Disk Management.

If this is your booting HDD, you should definitely consider performing a clean install...
Hey there, @ProReborn!

I'd suggest you go to Disk Management and check this as @mcnumpty suggested. Keep in mind that changing the drive letter assignment of an internal hard drive would require you to format and erase the data. :( You mentioned that you replaced your 'unstable' old HDD with the WD one and then cloned it. Unfortunately, though, if you were dealing with corrupted sectors and data on the old drive, the cloning procedure would basically clone those corrupted files as well. I'd strongly recommend you backup anything important from the HDD somewhere off-site and then consider reformatting it through Disk Management.

If this is your booting HDD, you should definitely consider performing a clean install of Windows.

Keep us posted & let us know if you have more questions! :)
SuperSoph_WD
 
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