Used Paragon Migrate OS To SSD (Success):Now Disk Management Confusion

[billbruen]

I migrated my Win 7 OS from my 'C' drive to a OCZ Vertex 4 256Gb SSD. No problems, everything works fine.

But recently I was in 'Disk Management' and couldn't make sense of what I was seeing:my SSD was showing as drive 'H' with a capacity of 931Gb!

Depending on which tool I use, I get slightly different reports (Belarc: Disk Management: CrystalDiskInfo)

Anyone ever had similar confusion? and what did you do?

Probably doesn't help that when I reuse old hard disks, I usually leave Windows on them.

As I say, everything is working fine, but clearly there is some confusion around and I don't like that.

I want my reporting software to give me accurate information.

 

[bobafetthotmail]

Can you post a screenshot of your Disk Management? Follow this tutorial

Also, if you are booting from your SSD then it is the drive C.
Maybe the drive H is the old hard drive?

 

[billbruen]

OK here's my Disk Management screenshot.....



Seeing such a garbled picture in Disk Man, I'm not quite sure what to believe: can I believe the Volume names are correct?

Here's a view taken with CrystalDiskInfo, which shows my OCZ as drive 'c'.....

 

[theog]

I would say, Disk 2 is the SSD,should be Disk 0.

Also you have four ACTIVE Partitions one for each OS?

 

[billbruen]

Umm, could be, but why has Disk Man got it wrong and not labeled it as OCZ Disc 0?

Can I recover from this confusion? If I disconnect all drives apart from SSD Boot and reconnect them one by one, will the OS identify and renumber/rename/'reletter' them correctly do you think?

As for multiple Active partitions, I've no idea whether that's a bad thing: May be unnecessary, but does it do any harm?

I guess it stems from my bad practice of reusing old hard disks without reformatting them. Could that be having an effect on the confusion?

 

[billbruen]

Should mention that I've been getting messages from BBC iPlayer, that, what it calls Disc 'C', is too small to accept further downloads.

 

[Mark Phelps]

Reading your screen shot, it looks like you're STILL booting from the 240GB drive, not from the SSD. Plus, I would think either the 100MB partition or the OS partition on the SSD would need the boot flag.

If it were me, I would disconnect all but the SSD and see if you can still boot. I suspect that will not work -- because of the lack of a boot flag.

 

[billbruen]

OK this is everything disconnected, except for my 3 external drives....

Disk 2 has become Disk 0 and tagged as 'Boot',, but not identified as OCZ Vertex......booted fine.....

Curious isn't it?

 

[theog]

label C: OCZ Vertex, as you did with the HDD.

 

[billbruen]

OK, this is the picture after some more playing around.

I've marked the Active disks as Inactive and renamed the C drive as OCZ.......

 

[billbruen]

I also relettered my three external drives as, 'J, 'K', 'L'

Disk 0 ('D'), ('H') is bit of a mystery....don't know how it got split into two partitions.

As it's just a storage drive now, I guess it's safe to merge the partitions, or even reformat?

 

[billbruen]

Well, this thread appears to have died the death, so let me try another allied question.

I'm looking to increase the free space on my 'C' drive SSD. The Users folder there (138Gb), looks very tempting to try and move to another HDD.

I can see on the Interweb that this is apparently possible: some claim to have done it successfully: the methods of doing it vary: some say dangerous, don't do it.........

Has anybody in here done this successfully, and if so what was your method.

 

[essenbe]

Yes, you can move the user files to a new location. See option 2 http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18629-user-folders-change-default-location.html

Also, when you used Paragon Migrate, did you go into bios and change the boot options? List your SSD as the hard drive to boot to?

 

[billbruen]

Thanks for pointing me towards that post.....I'll give it a try.

Yes I did change the Boot options.....as I indicated, I had/have no problems with booting, it was just the confusing picture presented by Disk Management that offended my sensibilities!

I have given up trying to understand what caused the Disk Man confusion......instead, I have just set about 'changing' the Disk Man 'picture' of my hard disks, so that they look 'right' to me.

By dint of renaming, relettering, reformatting, deleting old 'Windows' folders, getting rid of my 'active' disks and using Diskpart to get rid of my Dynamic disk, I have pretty well achieved what I wanted.

BTW, I found Diskpart to be extremely useful (never used it before). It can achieve what a lot of Partition Managers apparently can't, when it comes to handling 'dynamic' disks.

For what it's worth, two other free utility programs I wouldn't be without for cleaning up my disks are: 'Take Ownership'
Add "Take Ownership" to Explorer Right-Click Menu in Win 7 or Vista
and 'Unlocker' UNLOCKER 1.9.2 BY CEDRICK 'NITCH' COLLOMB

 

[essenbe]

Diskpart is very useful, as are the take ownership and these too


http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/1911-take-ownership-shortcut.html
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/516-context-menu-add-copy-folder-move-folder.html