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Howdy,
It's my first time here so I hope I'm doing this right 😄
So first off, specs:
Asus G74SX-XN1
12G Ram
Core i7
560M 3G
HD 1( C: ) - Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BPVT 500GB 5400 RPM ( Windows 7 )
HD 2( F: ) - Seagate Momentus 7200.4 ST9500423AS 500GB 7200 RPM ( Storage, now a clone of C: )
OS - Windows 7 Professional
First off, I bought this laptop used about a year ago. It's been great for gaming and for programming (C++). The only problems I've had were some BSOD issues earlier on but they stopped in December after a reformat (did a lot of troubleshooting and Razer Synapse seemed to be the problem).
Yesterday I noticed that my F: drive, which I use for storage, is the faster one of the 2. Obviously, I want the best possible perfomance out of my laptop so I want the Seagate( F: ) to become my C:. Now, after cloning my C: to F: with Acronis True Image 2013 Plus, I'm stuck. Now my question is this: how do I make my F: my C:? How do I make it so I can boot from my Seagate ( atm my F: ) and use my Western Digital ( atm my C: ) as Storage. I've included the screenshots that I thought would be helpful. I've Googled and searched forums (including this one) for a solution but I can't find one, I can only find hints which are a bit cryptic to me (I'm one year into learning about computer tech stuff and programming). That said, looking forward to hearing about the solution. Thanks in advance 😄
(There's a small difference in disk size because I modified some files on the C: drive to make sure I was booting from that one)
It's my first time here so I hope I'm doing this right 😄
So first off, specs:
Asus G74SX-XN1
12G Ram
Core i7
560M 3G
HD 1( C: ) - Western Digital Scorpio Blue WD5000BPVT 500GB 5400 RPM ( Windows 7 )
HD 2( F: ) - Seagate Momentus 7200.4 ST9500423AS 500GB 7200 RPM ( Storage, now a clone of C: )
OS - Windows 7 Professional
First off, I bought this laptop used about a year ago. It's been great for gaming and for programming (C++). The only problems I've had were some BSOD issues earlier on but they stopped in December after a reformat (did a lot of troubleshooting and Razer Synapse seemed to be the problem).
Yesterday I noticed that my F: drive, which I use for storage, is the faster one of the 2. Obviously, I want the best possible perfomance out of my laptop so I want the Seagate( F: ) to become my C:. Now, after cloning my C: to F: with Acronis True Image 2013 Plus, I'm stuck. Now my question is this: how do I make my F: my C:? How do I make it so I can boot from my Seagate ( atm my F: ) and use my Western Digital ( atm my C: ) as Storage. I've included the screenshots that I thought would be helpful. I've Googled and searched forums (including this one) for a solution but I can't find one, I can only find hints which are a bit cryptic to me (I'm one year into learning about computer tech stuff and programming). That said, looking forward to hearing about the solution. Thanks in advance 😄
(There's a small difference in disk size because I modified some files on the C: drive to make sure I was booting from that one)
Howdy guys,
Thanks a bunch for the replies. Very helpful and from what I researched I was figuring the solution was kinda as you laid it out. Now... lol
In a moment of nerd yolo last night (with a handy 6 pack of beer, and before I read your replies) I took out the Western Digital and tried to boot up without switching the HD's physically. This was a no go obviously as I got the "bootmgr is missing, press ctrl-alt-del to restart" message. Then I put the Western Digital back. Problems arise and I need to go to the boot override in the BIOS to boot my C:. Then I boot from the Win7 live cd, go to the command prompt and do a "bootrec.exe /fixmbr", and then a "Bootrec /Rebuild Bcd". Now a reboot and I can only get into my Win from boot overide. So at that moment I'm cool with this as I like troubleshooting and learning about this stuff.
Now the moment of nerd yolo happens. I decide to install Linux Mint on my Western DIgital and keep Win 7 on the Seagate (both HD's are in their original places physically). I install the grub on sda1 (Windows) and sdb (Linux) is active. This is what everything looks like:
So the first thing I notice is that Disk 0 and Disk 1 have switched (Disk 0 used to be the Western Digital, it's now the Seagate, and is also now the C:). Which is a step in the right direction (I've noticed a nice performance boost also, the main goal of this).
So in a nutshell, I needed to go Linux style anyways as I want to learn about it. Drives are where I want them, I can boot from my grub at startup into whichever OS I want). Now, my question: at startup (grub), Windows (sda1 and sd2) give me two Windows 7 options to boot up. sda1 works, sda2 is a nono. So from looking at the ( C: ) and Sys Res ( F: ) and I'm guessing that my BIOS is giving me the option of booting from my Sys Res ( F: ). So ya, looking to clean this up and make it a wrap 😄
Thanks again for your replies getmealive and billyray520. Hopefully I didn't disappoint, lol. It must be said, I am having fun here 😄
Thanks a bunch for the replies. Very helpful and from what I researched I was figuring the solution was kinda as you laid it out. Now... lol
In a moment of nerd yolo last night (with a handy 6 pack of beer, and before I read your replies) I took out the Western Digital and tried to boot up without switching the HD's physically. This was a no go obviously as I got the "bootmgr is missing, press ctrl-alt-del to restart" message. Then I put the Western Digital back. Problems arise and I need to go to the boot override in the BIOS to boot my C:. Then I boot from the Win7 live cd, go to the command prompt and do a "bootrec.exe /fixmbr", and then a "Bootrec /Rebuild Bcd". Now a reboot and I can only get into my Win from boot overide. So at that moment I'm cool with this as I like troubleshooting and learning about this stuff.
Now the moment of nerd yolo happens. I decide to install Linux Mint on my Western DIgital and keep Win 7 on the Seagate (both HD's are in their original places physically). I install the grub on sda1 (Windows) and sdb (Linux) is active. This is what everything looks like:
So the first thing I notice is that Disk 0 and Disk 1 have switched (Disk 0 used to be the Western Digital, it's now the Seagate, and is also now the C:). Which is a step in the right direction (I've noticed a nice performance boost also, the main goal of this).
So in a nutshell, I needed to go Linux style anyways as I want to learn about it. Drives are where I want them, I can boot from my grub at startup into whichever OS I want). Now, my question: at startup (grub), Windows (sda1 and sd2) give me two Windows 7 options to boot up. sda1 works, sda2 is a nono. So from looking at the ( C: ) and Sys Res ( F: ) and I'm guessing that my BIOS is giving me the option of booting from my Sys Res ( F: ). So ya, looking to clean this up and make it a wrap 😄
Thanks again for your replies getmealive and billyray520. Hopefully I didn't disappoint, lol. It must be said, I am having fun here 😄
Looked at my disks on Linux and I noticed the 288 bad sectors...
