New drive not found after cloning non-boot D drive in Windows 10
My Windows 10 desktop had three drives, a boot C-drive (an SSD), a programs hard-drive (D) and and data files hard drive (E).
I recently upgraded the 240 GB SSD C-drive to a 500 GB Samsung SSD using Acronis 2019 w/o any issue. Then I used Acronis to clone the existing D-drive to the old 240 GB SSD drive that had been retired from C-drive duty. There is still 75 GB of free space on the new D-drive.
Then I removed the old D-drive and put the new D-drive (SSD) in its place and booted. Same SATA connectors. The system boots, but complains that there is no D-drive. Sure enough, none shows up in Windows Explorer.
I reconnected the old D-drive and disconnected the SSD that replaced it and the system boots fine, including D-drive.
What's up? My guess is that I have to reconnect the D-drive SSD and use disk manager to make sure it is listed as the D-drive. But after that, if it does not work...
Or suggestions....?


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