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I cloned my C: drive to my E: drive and i want to Format My C: drive

I have already prioritized my PC to boot from my E: drive which has a copy of my windows 10. I used Samsung's Data Migration tool since both my C: and E: are both from Samsung to avoid any hiccups or discrepancies. I'm worried that formatting my C: drive may mess something up because it still shows the Windows OS symbol hovering over my C: drive although i have prioritized it to boot from my E: drive. Am i missing something here? 

Hi Ralf, im Jose, an independent advisor and a Windows user like you. Im glad to help you.

Have you set disk E as active? Have you tried booting disconnecting old disk?

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Hi Jose, 

I have not set disk E as active. How would i go about doing that?

And by disconnecting the old disk do you mean completely getting rid of it? I'd like to keep the old disk for an additional storage option even if its not enough. 

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Please, use the search box to lookup for disk management. Right click then and select run as administrator. On disk management window, right click on E: and select active. Close the Windows and restart your computer.

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I have not set disk E as active.

Still it's active already. He's not taking a close look at your picture.

You next need to ensure Disk 0 boots and Disk 2 doesn't. It's easy to ensure the latter by removing the "active" flag or the whole drive. Removing the "active" flag will require you to use another tool than disk management, e.g. diskpart.

https://kb.paragon-software.com/article/1136

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I right clicked on the drive and it has the option to "Mark Partition as Active" grayed out. I can't click on that option. What should i do now? 

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I tried following that prompt but if i i go back into Disk Management, it doesn't show any changes even if i refresh the window. I went ahead and made it active again just in case i messed something up. 

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If that option is grayed out, the step is already done.

By design, the active windows partition will get C letter. The new disk is your new C: Disk.

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Last updated April 27, 2021 Views 452 Applies to: