Chose Partition To Boot From
Jul 23, 2015
A few months ago, i made a dual boot of Windows 8.1 and Windows 10. Now I was running out of memory on my Windows 10 partition, so I removed Windows 8.1. I was unable to add the free space to the Windows 10 partition because this free space was before the 10-partition.
So I decided to clone W10 to the free space using Easeus disk copy. (Successfull). Now i wanted to boot the clone, remove the old one and add the free space to the cloned W10. But i am unable to boot the clone. I can't chose the partition to boot from. What went wrong? there are 2 identical partitions with W10. How I can solve this without reinstalling everything?
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