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MahmoudAbu Awad
Background: I was planning to upgrade one of my SATA SSD's that I use for storage to another larger one. When I unplugged that SSD, my PC refused to boot, even though Windows 10 is installed on my NVMe.
With my humble knowledge in knowing how a PC boots, I came to the conclusion that the boot partition where the EFI is located in on my SATA SSD and not on my NVMe, even though Windows is installed on the latter.
In the disk management utility, a 200 MB "EFI System Partition" was indeed partitioned on the SATA SSD, and the NVMe had no such partition; it only had one partition that reads "Boot, Page File, Cache Dump, Basic Data Partition".
So my question is: Is there a way to boot without the SATA SSD without having to reinstall Windows altogether? Maybe I could somehow partition out an EFI system partition on my NVMe? Maybe that partition is completely unnecessary and I'm looking at this problem the wrong way? I also fiddled with every possible option on my BIOS regarding Legacy/UEFI boot options, and the PC only boots when the SataSSD is plugged in.
The thing is I don't even know how this even happened, since that SATA SSD was never used as a boot SSD, and I did a clean install of Windows on my NVMe a while back, but as far as I can tell Windows cut the boot sector on the SSD when I installed it and dumped itself on the NVMe.
Any help would be appreciated.
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With my humble knowledge in knowing how a PC boots, I came to the conclusion that the boot partition where the EFI is located in on my SATA SSD and not on my NVMe, even though Windows is installed on the latter.
In the disk management utility, a 200 MB "EFI System Partition" was indeed partitioned on the SATA SSD, and the NVMe had no such partition; it only had one partition that reads "Boot, Page File, Cache Dump, Basic Data Partition".
So my question is: Is there a way to boot without the SATA SSD without having to reinstall Windows altogether? Maybe I could somehow partition out an EFI system partition on my NVMe? Maybe that partition is completely unnecessary and I'm looking at this problem the wrong way? I also fiddled with every possible option on my BIOS regarding Legacy/UEFI boot options, and the PC only boots when the SataSSD is plugged in.
The thing is I don't even know how this even happened, since that SATA SSD was never used as a boot SSD, and I did a clean install of Windows on my NVMe a while back, but as far as I can tell Windows cut the boot sector on the SSD when I installed it and dumped itself on the NVMe.
Any help would be appreciated.
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