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I am running Windows 8 on a 60 GB SSD. I found, however, that this is not enough for my needs, and I was even unable to upgrade to Windows 10 because I can't free up enough space to perform the upgrade.

So, I bought a 250 GB SSD to transfer to. I used gparted on a Ubuntu Live USB to clone the drive by copying the partitions and ensuring that they begin and end at the same point, and ensuring that the system reserved partition is marked as bootable. Then I expanded the main partition to take full advantage of the 250 GB drive.

I assume that that would be enough. I cloned disks of Windows before and been able to simply start up without problem. However, this time, I hit a problem. If I boot on the 250 GB drive, Windows then appears to start properly. When I check the drives that Windows detects, if I find that the disk of 60 GB is still listed as the C:\ drive and my 250 GB drive is another drive H:\. So, no doubt, despite specifying them in the BIOS to boot from the 250, Windows has loaded the 60.

I tried to force Windows to boot from the 250 by removing the 60 the system entirely, but when I did, I met a BSOD saying C:\Windows\System32 winload.exe is not found.

So, I guess my installation of windows has linked its lettering drive (at least for the C:\ drive) for the unique identifiers of the disc. Is it possible that I can change this ID? While Windows is guaranteed to be loaded from the new drive? Or is there another approach for this type of upgrade that will work better?

When you clone a system disk, immediately after that cloning turns off the system and disconnect the source drive.

Then boot from the cloned drive. The original disk can then be put back.

If there are two or more active disks, bootable Windows chooses which he prefers. The user cannot predetermine which disk Windows will choose if the last boot time is the same thing, because it will be when the source and just cloned disks are present.

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