ok i had copied all the files from the c-drive of my old dying pc to a new pc however I did not do a clone so I just have the files (all files including hidden ones) in my new c-drive. Ofcourse since ...

Okay, I was completely confused about your setup. You kept mentioning SSDs and HDDs and never mentioned a 250GB SSD specifically, and weren't clear about what drives did what. I thought it was just ...

The active partition is the main partition of the hard drive that has a Windows operating system and it can be set as a bootable partition. On every hard drive, you can pick only one primary partition ...

Despite virtualization becoming more relevant and multiple drives (including external) installed on your PC, there are still good reasons to use multiple partitions on Windows PCs. Regarding Windows, ...