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‎11-29-2018 10:07 AM

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Product: HP 15 bs 544tu
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

Hi, I just replaced my laptop's DVD drive with an SSD. I deleted the earlier windows partitions along with the recovery. Now when I install windows on the SSD, the recovery partition get created on the HDD. How can I make sure it gets installed on the SSD? I want this so that I can copy from the SSD independently with the HDD.

Note, I'm talking about my laptop and I do not wish to open it to disconnect the hdd.

Thanks✌️

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‎11-29-2018 10:23 AM

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@rdias002

I'm not aware that an installation of Win10 from media provided by MS creates a Recovery partition.  So, what media are you using to install Win10?

Your best bet, when doing a fresh install, is to have ONLY the drive you want the OS and boot loader files on connected.  In this case, disconnect your HDD and install with only the SSD connected.



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‎11-29-2018 10:33 AM

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Thank you for the reply. I am using a bootable usb for the installation. And as I mentioned in the description, it's my laptop. I do not want to open it for disconnecting the HDD. Is there a software alternative?

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‎11-29-2018 10:40 AM

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@rdias002

I still don't understand your problem -- as even with a USB stick, media create from an MS download is not going to create a Recovery partition because that is only done using media provided by HP.

You will HAVE to open the laptop to use the SSD for the OS because you will have to replace the HDD there.



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‎11-29-2018 10:50 AM

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@WAWood, Thank you once again for the reply. I made the bootable usb from an ISO file and not windows creation media. Anyway, irrespective of that, the news that there's no software solution, kills me. I'll just have to continue the way it is.
However, if in the future my HDD fails, the windows from SSD would fail to boot as well, am I right? What would I do then?

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‎11-29-2018 08:51 PM

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I got it resolved! I created the recovery and system reserved partitions in my SSD manually using diskpart.

 

select disk 1

create partition primary size=500 id=DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC

create partition efi size=100

format quick fs=fat32 label="System"

 

Then deleted the same from my HDD. So then when I installed windows 10 on the SSD, it created the boot manager in my SSD itself instead of the HDD.

 

I got the ID and more help from here

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