Just a tip to all Windows users trying to
install/reinstall windows on your PC. If your PC has a SSD and a HDD and you
plan to use your SSD as its primary boot drive and HDD for your secondary files
storage, please ensure that you remove your HDD during Windows installation. A
problem I had was a normal regular installation of Windows with both my SSD and
HDD connected and Windows worked fine for the past few months, until my HDD
crashed. Like any normal user would react, my reaction to that was
to simply remove the HDD and replace it with another drive and I would only
lose the files I had on the HDD.
No. It turned out that Windows would not even
boot on the standalone SSD even it contained the primary Windows boot files.
Through an intensive search online, I got to know that Windows will
automatically set a small partition on your secondary drive (my HDD in this
case) for System Reserved Partition instead of partitioning it on your primary
drive (my SSD) during the initial Windows installation. This small partition is an important partition and your
computer would not boot up Windows if this partition is missing! That was what
happened and in the end, I had to reinstall my entire computer, but this time
round, I removed the HDD during the installation process. This allows Windows to
set the System Reserved Partition locally on the SSD instead of any other
drives.
