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<blockquote data-quote="AtlBo" data-source="post: 709566" data-attributes="member: 32547">I&#039;ll look into it as soon as I get a chance.&nbsp; I booted to a boot menu (ESC) which gives various options for booting.&nbsp; I notice that on the older disk I get the option to boot to legacy, but not on the newer one.&nbsp; Haven&#039;t looked in BIOS yet for the legacy option.&nbsp; I do not recall seeing it before though, and I wondered why a little bit earlier today.I ran an offline chkdsk of the newer drive while in Windows in the system I have placed the drive, but that didn&#039;t complete.&nbsp; It stuck for about 3 hours on one file, so I quit the routine.&nbsp; Windows then must have scheduled one for the next boot for the drive.&nbsp; That went on for hours, similar to the one I ran in Hiren&#039;s.With the older drive I see that I can try to boot to legacy.&nbsp; On that drive, I also notice 3 options to boot to the Windows boot manager (or something like that) in the EFI options for booting.&nbsp; Those are there with all the other options I can choose to boot to for the drive.&nbsp; As I mentioned that is the drive that gives me the option to boot to legacy so I will go back through all the options there and let you know.BTW, this menu I am mentioning gives me the option to choose a one time boot device or choose to enter BIOS or choose to boot one time in Legacy.&nbsp; Looks like it&#039;s common on 2012-2013 HP PCs like 6200 Pro and 8200.&nbsp; Think there are some EUFI program extras options there too for both of the drives, but I don&#039;t know what those do.&nbsp; There is also an option for a factory restore which is disabled on the PCs here.&nbsp; Don&#039;t use a rescue partition.Well, because I have the backups, I would like to try deleting the unallocated partitions.&nbsp; However, I believe it is a very bad idea to remove a partition to the left, do you happen to know if that is the case with Windows 7?</blockquote>

[QUOTE="AtlBo, post: 709566, member: 32547"] I'll look into it as soon as I get a chance. I booted to a boot menu (ESC) which gives various options for booting. I notice that on the older disk I get the option to boot to legacy, but not on the newer one. Haven't looked in BIOS yet for the legacy option. I do not recall seeing it before though, and I wondered why a little bit earlier today. I ran an offline chkdsk of the newer drive while in Windows in the system I have placed the drive, but that didn't complete. It stuck for about 3 hours on one file, so I quit the routine. Windows then must have scheduled one for the next boot for the drive. That went on for hours, similar to the one I ran in Hiren's. With the older drive I see that I can try to boot to legacy. On that drive, I also notice 3 options to boot to the Windows boot manager (or something like that) in the EFI options for booting. Those are there with all the other options I can choose to boot to for the drive. As I mentioned that is the drive that gives me the option to boot to legacy so I will go back through all the options there and let you know. BTW, this menu I am mentioning gives me the option to choose a one time boot device or choose to enter BIOS or choose to boot one time in Legacy. Looks like it's common on 2012-2013 HP PCs like 6200 Pro and 8200. Think there are some EUFI program extras options there too for both of the drives, but I don't know what those do. There is also an option for a factory restore which is disabled on the PCs here. Don't use a rescue partition. Well, because I have the backups, I would like to try deleting the unallocated partitions. However, I believe it is a very bad idea to remove a partition to the left, do you happen to know if that is the case with Windows 7? [/QUOTE]

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