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Steam seems to be the only thing causing issues besides things that I can't find and had to reacquire regardless. Everything else on D drive, just grabbed the desktop shortcut from the old drive, threw it in the new boot drive, and worked well. Even non-steam games and mods. Fixed the Brave thing a few messages ago. Still not using Linux until it makes sense.

Already moved over everything I could. Now I'm just trying to set things up again, and moving chunks of folders when I come across it. This will take weeks, if not months.

Yeah, it refused to update or anything if I installed on D. Everything logged in, but I noticed it was the old Steam login page, before the QR code one. Installed on C. No way to move it. At least it auto-detected the library. It's not about the size of Steam. It's about having as many things NOT on the boot drive as possible.

Oh I've been using D drive for steam games since I built the PC. Steam games have their own separate folder in there. I just want to make EVERYTHING that isn't Windows on D drive, including Steam itself. Can I move it after it's installed? I know I can't just dragondrop the folder, but can I move the install location in Steam options?

I can't just put everything on D? I'm trying to avoid this crap all happening again. I'm putting NOTHING on my C drive anymore. Zero. If I can put it on D, it goes there. This seems like a workaround that doesn't solve the problem, and the kind of problem I'm just going to keep coming across with other things.

Well I solved the Brave thing before these got posted, but that's a good idea. I should have done that. I'm worried about how many other programs will do it. The Steam thing is what's killing me. Installed it again, to the D drive, logged in, used Steam Guard (stupid thing) and it just... doesn't open. Opened task manager, killed it, opened again. Log in, use the stupid Steam Guard code. It accepts it. It goes away. But Steam won't open. The stupid Bootstrapper client and everything is running, but Steam itself won't open. Restart PC, and black screen. Have to plug in HDMI to log in, then unplug and plug in the main monitor that uses displayport just for the PC to switch to Displayport, then unplug HDMI and let the daisychain kick in.... and Steam STILL won't open.

Not using Firefox, sorry. Used it for a while, but Brave is more private and has given fewer issues. Firefox is my backup for ONLY testing if a site is broken, or if it's just my browser. (It's never the browser) I copied everything already. This post was made because that's not enough.

I'm just trying to find out what other options there might be. This place has taught me many little tricks that aren't common knowledge. Might be a registry edit. Might be a tiny program like my Desktop Icon Restore or VMB Fancy OSD.

Like Brave Browser. Reinstall Brave. Brave doesn't let you pick install location. Installs to new C drive. No data. Sign in, sync, and missing cookies (literally, cookie clicker file is gone.) Find Brave data on old drive (G:) Copy Brave data to new C drive Brave says "YO, a computer changed your files around. We're resetting everything back to factory defaults for safety reasons." Rinse and repeat like 3 times yesterday. Boot up Steam (old installation, still on D drive) Steam just goes "WHOA, dude, everything is screwed. We gotta run repairs and stuff" No, you don't. Just let me point you to... "No, like, we gotta reinstall EVERYTHING." NO, you DON'T, just use the old stuff. Only option is to close Steam.

Already done... I'm trying to find something that gets the rest back, because it's causing problems. Download/install a thing again, and then it makes a new AppData entry somewhere else, then nothing is how it used to be, so I copy the old data to overwrite the new data, and it's like "OOPS! CONFLICT! BRB GONNA FUCK UP YOUR SHIT"

Okay, but what about directory/registry or whatever? Is there a way that I can tell Windows "Hey, everything from this guy in this place, connect it to this guy instead."?

Did that. No good. I need better. I still have the SSD with the original user, and the old Windows installation. Can't I just fix that Windows installation?

Pics/vids were on HDD. I already tried copying over all the files, but it doesn't actually make the new user function like the old one. I'm just trying to log in as the old user on the new SSD. Is there any way to do that? Can I boot Windows on the new SSD and have it give user sign-in options for the users on the old one? Can I copy the whole user to the new SSD (which I did)_ and then tell Windows "Hey, this is an existing user. Log in as this dude."?

Okay, I love you guys, and this is driving me crazy, and I need to figure out what to do. I'll try to be short. Built PC in 2015. Samsung 850 EVO SSD and mass storage HDD. Most things on mass storage drive, but some little things on SSD. Programs and stuff. Obviously user profile, too. BSOD 2 days ago. "BAD_SYSTEM_CONFIG_INFO." Automatic repair couldn't fix, and neither could system restore, or even repairing Windows with installation media. Bought new SSD. Installed Windows on it. Basically blank user profile, obviously. Tried to copy/paste everything from old to new, to see what worked and what didn't. Pretty easy to find out that doesn't magically make it identical, and some files were corrupt, or didn't work, all things that are Windows files. Copied ENTIRE contents of old drive (or at least the 99% that I could) to new drive, user and all. Made new user in Windows. Named it identical to the old user that I want to use. Windows renames it to "(old username).DESKTOP-VD(VOSS" in file explorer. Doesn't work because obviously it made a whole new user folder for the user, instead of using the existing user folder I was trying to use. It was 9 years of activity, and I'd have to somehow find and redo everything from dozens of tiny programs to fix issues or add some QoL, to games, to miscellaneous DLL files scattered around, to taskbar icons... I don't even want to TOUCH Steam because of how much anxiety I'd get trying to point it to all the right things, and it would probably make HELLA duplicates because it just doesn't know where everything is for the old user. Even my documents changed because I had it in the root of D. D:\Documents no longer exists. It's in D:\Users\(name)\Documents now and that has a bunch of stuff in it that I need for programs to run properly. I JUST WANT TO HAVE MY OLD USER PROFILE BACK. Can I use the new SSD's installation of Windows to fix the old installation on the old SSD? Can I somehow truly migrate the old drive contents to the new drive and have it just work like it used to? I have all 3 drives connected now, and I'm just using the default user from when I installed Windows on the new drive. Trying to cope, but basically every click causes SOME kind of "oops, that isn't a real thing that exists" issue and I'm kinda breaking down over this whole ordeal.

I'm 99% sure that my CMOS is totally fine and this is completely unrelated, based on the problem being in Windows, not the MOBO or BIOS or UEFI