- Oct 16, 2012
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Ok so I thought getting on board with the whole windows insider thing was gonna be kinda cool...and then the updates started to come. i've been trying to figure out how to get out of it but in the mean time this last update they pushed out wreked my system. I accidentally let the update apply itself and when the system started to boot back up it kindly told me that it couldn't find an active partition. I tried the windows repair disc, flashing my BIOS a few times, changing setting in BIOS, trying to repair the MBR, nothing worked. If i use the repair disk and get to a command line i can actually access every file on all my hard drives just fine, i can go into to diskpart and everything looks normal in there but the system just will not find an active partition.
Anyway I did a clean install on a completely different SSD and started putting windows back on my system, but I was wondering if there was a way i could just remove the windows install from the old hard drive and then either use it as a secondary hard drive or port all my programs from it to the new system?
I think at some point in the past i did that with a 2TB mechanical drive I used to for storage but programs and such never tended to show up in the start menu or the uninstall and things like that. I have a back up of the system but shockingly windows recovery doesn't see it. Any ideas would be much appreciated, although a perfect solution would be better lol. Thanks in advance.
Storage:
SSD1- 240GB with 2 partitions 1. 106GB for my virtual lab, CEH tools, and the ISO for various OS's etc. the 2nd partition is solely for windows 80GB (and then i think there are 2 more that windows made automatically).
SSD2- 960GB partition 1- for programs,currently working projects (audio and video editing files currently being worked on), also the actual virtual drives for my VM's are on this drive as well. partition 2- School work, and all things academic.
HDD- 2TB 10k rpm mechanical disk, Partition 1- Long term storage for media files, text documents, program installer repository. partition 2- is a quarantined (not a true quarantine) strictly for file downloads, malware analysis, and other like tasks.
CPU- intel i7-6700k
RAM- 32GB@3200MHz
ASUS Z170-A mobo
ASUS ROG stryx GTX 1060 6GBddr5
4TB NAS
Anyway I did a clean install on a completely different SSD and started putting windows back on my system, but I was wondering if there was a way i could just remove the windows install from the old hard drive and then either use it as a secondary hard drive or port all my programs from it to the new system?
I think at some point in the past i did that with a 2TB mechanical drive I used to for storage but programs and such never tended to show up in the start menu or the uninstall and things like that. I have a back up of the system but shockingly windows recovery doesn't see it. Any ideas would be much appreciated, although a perfect solution would be better lol. Thanks in advance.
Storage:
SSD1- 240GB with 2 partitions 1. 106GB for my virtual lab, CEH tools, and the ISO for various OS's etc. the 2nd partition is solely for windows 80GB (and then i think there are 2 more that windows made automatically).
SSD2- 960GB partition 1- for programs,currently working projects (audio and video editing files currently being worked on), also the actual virtual drives for my VM's are on this drive as well. partition 2- School work, and all things academic.
HDD- 2TB 10k rpm mechanical disk, Partition 1- Long term storage for media files, text documents, program installer repository. partition 2- is a quarantined (not a true quarantine) strictly for file downloads, malware analysis, and other like tasks.
CPU- intel i7-6700k
RAM- 32GB@3200MHz
ASUS Z170-A mobo
ASUS ROG stryx GTX 1060 6GBddr5
4TB NAS
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