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Stupid windows
noise747
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I decided to reorganise my desktop computer, i got three drives, a 120GB SSD, a 500GB seagate hybrid and a old Hitachi 250GB
The way I had my machines was Linux on seagate, windows 8 on SSD, the 250 is used for files.
Grub was on the seagate so that was the boot drive and I could boot windows from that, or change the boot drive int he bios or what ever it is called these days.
So I wiped seagate and SSD, and divided the SSD in half more or less, my plan was and still is to run windows and linux on the SSd and use the seagate for windows software.
Because i have got the windows 8.1 ISO, I thought I may as well put that as clean install.
so I i installed windows and now i have found that it have put a reserved partition on the seagate drive instead of the SSD.
for goodness sake, now I have to start again.
Stupid windows.
The way I had my machines was Linux on seagate, windows 8 on SSD, the 250 is used for files.
Grub was on the seagate so that was the boot drive and I could boot windows from that, or change the boot drive int he bios or what ever it is called these days.
So I wiped seagate and SSD, and divided the SSD in half more or less, my plan was and still is to run windows and linux on the SSd and use the seagate for windows software.
Because i have got the windows 8.1 ISO, I thought I may as well put that as clean install.
so I i installed windows and now i have found that it have put a reserved partition on the seagate drive instead of the SSD.
for goodness sake, now I have to start again.
Stupid windows.
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Not really. With Grub on the 500GB boot drive you cannot expect Windows to 'know' that you want the boot drive to be moved to the SSD.
You need to reconfigure Grub so that the boot drive is the SSD by running ....
sudo dpkg-reconfigure grub-pc
sudo update-grub
Then install Windows making sure it is to the SSD. Finally you will need to repair Grub as Windows will wipe it out.
Windows 8.0 (clean *and* upgrade) didn't do that for me though IIRC, when I installed it, so is 8.1 different in that respect?
Did you not look to see where the partition was being put? I'm guessing SSD would have been in the list.
I even partitions the SSD into two ready and clicked on the partiton I wanted windows to install on. I have been doing this long enough to know what I am doing.
Sure I am not so up to date with Linux, but Linux was not installed at the time.
So because I did not leave any room on the install drive for windows to make it useless reserve partition, it put it on another drive.
Anyway, sorted now, I partitioned both the drives and formated them to the way I wanted it laid out, I gave windows no choice as it would have to reformat the drive to put it partition on.
Just to say that the size of the drives will be displayed and not what kind they are. Completely forgot about that.