Issues post ssd installation

[LegitTheral]

Hi, im not sure whether this is the place to ask but I have a problem concerning my HDD.

Recently I have just reinstalled windows onto a 128gb ssd to get the faster boot loads compared to my 1tb hard drive.

However most of my data (games and media) is still on the HDD and I want to keep it there (not enough room on my ssd). Because of the boot priority, I believe windows has now labelled my C drive as the SSD. However whenever I try to search for something using the start menu, it will not show up. Even if I know it is a file on the HDD. I have indexed the HDD as well so it should show right? Also whenever I use the file explorer, it looks at my documents (from the SSD) however I want it back to normal where it shows the HDD drive (because the majority of my apps are still there)

In addition all the shortcuts on the desktop and app preferences are gone. e.g I have to sign back into everything. My browser preferences arent the same as before etc. When I finally found discord on my hdd I opened it and has to re login (never usually happens).

What would be the best way to fix this? I believe maybe changing the HDD back to the C drive could fix this but would it affect boot order? I want to keep the performance increase by using the ssd almost exclusively for the OS

If anyone has any ideas it would be a big help

Although my hdd is a mess ideally I don't want to start from scratch again

Cheers qB^)

[Windows7ge]

This is quite the mess you have going on here.

 

Install Steam on your SSD and tell it to install your games to the HDD. You should be able to point steam to the existing game folders on the HDD so that you don't have to re-install all of them.

 

If you use something like Chrome and have a Google account it can save all your browser preferences, bookmarks, etc. Login and sync and your browser should be more-or-less where it was while booting the HDD.

 

It may be possible to search both C:\ & D:\ at once but the purpose of the File Explorer Search function is for you to narrow down the search to a given directory. If the data you want is on D:\ you should open D:\ then search. If you want something that's on C:\ you should open C:\ then search. If you don't know if what you're looking for is on C:\ or D:\ then you might want to improve your organization skills.

 

Discord, I would reinstall all my small applications onto the SSD. That'd be your best option IMO.

 

Your boot drive is always going to be C:\ regardless of which disk you boot. Drive letters is at the OS level. Boot priority has no influence on nor is influenced by Drive Letters.

[LegitTheral]

haha ok thanks alot, seems like some reorganisation is long overdue