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Clone HD on my laptop moved the bootup partitions

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Hi All

 I just upgraded to the 2018 version and Cloned my smaller HD to a larger HD.  Im running a dual boot Win10/64bit and Win7 Pro/64bit.  Partion 'C' is running  Win10 and partition 'D' is running Win7Pro. On my old HD  'Computer Management/Disk Management....Win7Pro' would show "D' in the first slot of the partition. On the new cloned HD the 'D' partition is in the second slot in  'Computer Management/Disk Management....Win7Pro'

On the new HD when I boot into Win7Pro and open 'Computer Management/Disk Management' the 'D' partition is in the second slot. It should be in the first slot

The same is true when Im running Win10. In 'Disk Management' the 'C' partition is in the second slot and it should be in the first slot like the original HD.

 I am noticing a difference when running both Win versions.

How can I fix this or does it even matter.

 

See the picture below..top picture shows Win7Pro and bottom picture shows Win10.

This is running on a i7, 2.2 Laptop

Your help would be greatly appreciated..I am semi computer savy and sometimes that is questionable.

Ron L

 

Win7ProWin10.JPG

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Ron, welcome to these User Forums.

If you can boot into and use both of your dual-boot Windows OS's without issue, then I would say that the layout of partitions shown in Disk Management does not matter.

Disk Management tends to change drive letters to reflect which is the active OS using drive C: but the actual partition placement on the drive should not change (once established).

See my screen shot below from the free MiniTool Partition Wizard tool for my own dual-boot computer (running Windows 10 Insiders build as Win 10 New, and Windows 10 Spring Update as Win 10 Old).  The image was taken when booted from Win 10 Old thus this has drive C: and the other OS gets drive D:  Physically, Win 10 New comes first, then Win 10 Old in terms of partition placement.  Note: this is one reason why you should name your drives instead of relying on drive letters.

2018-05-15 22_29_34 MiniTool Partitions.png

UPDATE:

 This is probably the wrong forum for this. I put my old HD back  and it also does the same thing. So, Acronis did an exact copy of it. Sorry for bringing that up here...

Can you please delete this post as it isnt relevant because Acronis worked as expected.

Thanks for taking the time to help me out

Ron L

Ron, glad that all is sorted / resolved.  Only the forum moderator can delete topics or posts but this one may be useful for someone else in the future.