Before I break this machine....

[Origin Unknown]

Installed WIN11 on a new SSD. No longer need the existing WIN10 install which is on an NVMe. Seems that EFI part wa\s still on the NVMe so have recreated the EFI part and populated with the right files using bcedit, before I blat the whole NVMe, I've done this correctly, right?

DISKPART> list disk

  Disk ###  Status         Size     Free     Dyn  Gpt
  --------  -------------  -------  -------  ---  ---
  Disk 0    Online         2794 GB      0 B        *
* Disk 1    Online          931 GB      0 B        *
  Disk 2    Online          238 GB   238 GB        *

DISKPART> list part

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    Reserved            16 MB  1024 KB
  Partition 2    Primary            931 GB    17 MB
  Partition 3    System             200 MB   931 GB

DISKPART> sel disk 2

Disk 2 is now the selected disk.

DISKPART> list part

  Partition ###  Type              Size     Offset
  -------------  ----------------  -------  -------
  Partition 1    System             260 MB  1024 KB

DISKPART> list vol

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 0     D   DATA         NTFS   Partition   2780 GB  Healthy
  Volume 1     E   RECOVERY     NTFS   Partition     13 GB  Healthy
  Volume 2     C                NTFS   Partition    931 GB  Healthy    Boot
  Volume 3                      FAT32  Partition    200 MB  Healthy    Hidden
  Volume 5                      FAT32  Partition    260 MB  Healthy    System

DISKPART>

Disk 1 is new SSD, Disk 2 is the old SSD
Vol 3 sits on the new SSD and Vol 5 sits on the old. VCol5 and Disk 2 are the ones I want to blat

[Origin Unknown]

{{{
C:\Windows\system32>bcdedit /enum active

Windows Boot Manager

---

identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=\Device\HarddiskVolume3
path \EFI\Microsoft\Boot\bootmgfw.efi
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-GB
inherit {globalsettings}
default {current}
resumeobject {7875c775-2f49-11ec-ab0e-af2cffe3ad2d}
displayorder {current}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader

---

identifier {current}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.efi
description Windows 11
locale en-GB
inherit {bootloadersettings}
recoverysequence {7875c777-2f49-11ec-ab0e-af2cffe3ad2d}
displaymessageoverride Recovery
recoveryenabled Yes
isolatedcontext Yes
allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {7875c775-2f49-11ec-ab0e-af2cffe3ad2d}
nx OptIn
bootmenupolicy Standard

C:\Windows\system32>
}}}

[mattley]

Never install windows on a machine with more than the disk you want to install to installed. There is no control in the windows installer and sometimes it puts the boot sector on the wrong drive.

[dundarach]

Are you installing via usb?

If so whip all the others out, format the bugger and set it up again.

Then shove the old ones back in.

I'd always start from the least hardware possible to boot and add back in.

[Origin Unknown]

Yea that ship has sailed I do not want to reinstall WIN11 again as I have it exactly as I want it after many months. Secondly, not a clue where the NVMe is actually located in the machine. I cannot for the life of me find it.

The above does look correct though?

[snuffy]

Origin Unknown said:

Secondly, not a clue where the NVMe is actually located in the machine. I cannot for the life of me find it.

Two places to look:

On the front side of the Motherboard, if you can't see it, it will be hidden under a heatsink, but not a silver thing with fins, but a black bit of metal exactly the same size as the M.2 drive. Which means it's not that easy to spot, cus it sort of blends in.

Or, on the back of the Motherboard, which is not where you'd expect to find one.