Kingston SSDNow 240GB = subtleties

Norm X wrote:


Tomorrow will bring greater clarity

While it is booted, look in Disk Management.
See where "System,Boot,Active,Pagefile" sit.

My guess is, some on one drive, some on the other.

It could be using the System Reserved boot stuff
from one drive, and the OS partition of the other drive.

If you unplug one of the drives, something will happen.

If all the important fields sit on one drive, you
should be able to unplug the other drive.

Paul

On 09/19/16 22:32, Paul so wittily quipped:
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The 450MB one is a hidden NTFS (partition type 0x27 instead of the
normal 0x07). It has a ~300MB winre.wim and the partition is an
emergency boot OS for repairing the OS. It isn't big enough
to reinstall anything. I think there is a way to put that
thing into the boot menu, so you could then select it
during boot (as a multi-boot). The winre.wim (or winpe.wim
on a Windows 7 backup boot CD), those are very basic pre-install
environment OSes (no Metro) where the WIM is read sequentially
off the media and into RAM. You'll see the rotating balls
or rotating circle boot thing, so they look similar to the
regular OS booting. But the similarity ends after that.
A favorite reason for that to be present, is to repair the
OS when it doesn't boot.

Micro-**** needs to be more forthcoming about these things, call it a
"feature", and put it in the boot menu. Otherwise, another
"improvement" for 10 that's worthy of mention: recovery options that
don't need a bootable DVD.
(these used to be in XP but you needed the DVD and a couple of boot
fails to get to it)