u/FlamingGabe

I think my Windows OS and Bootloader are on different drives and not sure how to fix this :(

I recently got a new 2TB drive and installed windows 11 on it. I think when I did the installation that it was the only drive installed in my system but can't quite remember.

I still had my old Windows 10 install on a 512gb drive so I plugged it back in so I could boot into the windows 11 drive to just copy all my files directly from the old drive

Today I took the old drive out as I was cleaning my PC but then I was unable to boot to my new one. I can see it detected correctly in BIOS

When I put the old drive back in - I reached a Windows recovery screen but was able to boot back to my new drive. Took the old drive out and once again got stuck in bios with the new drive detected with nothing to boot to.

I think the Bootloader is on the old drive and not sure how to move it to the new one (if that's even possible)

anyone have any suggestions?

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u/FlamingGabe — 5 days ago