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Apps missing after installing windows on new SSD

allaketoket
By allaketoket
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Hello, I recently received an SSD, and I wanted to transfer windows to it to get a faster boot. I ended up doing this by using a flash drive, booting with that, installing windows on my SSD, etc. After all of that was done and over with, I booted up my pc to find that it looks like it has completely cleaned itself of any of my files. Although, when I go into my folder and click on my D drive, it brings up all of my apps. Can someone please help me with why this is occurring? I want all of my apps to be easily accessible, and its a long process to go into my folder, find the game I want to play .exe, and click on it. Why isnt it showing up when I try and look for it on Cortana? Sorry for being such a newbie.

 

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So I assume you made a Windows USB installer and then installed a clean copy of Windows to your SSD? That's what I am gathering.

It's a clean install, it wont have any of your previous applications, if they were installed to a secondary drive, your new Windows install wont be aware of that. You will need to manually add them back, which will vary depending on the application and how it was installed.

 

If you wanted a direct copy, you needed to clone the drive with something like clonezilla. Though if your moving between drive types Windows might throw a fit.

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Welcome to the forum!

 

If you installed a new copy of windows on your SSD, it doesn't surprise me that the programs that were installed on the HDD (as part of the other installation of Windows) aren't being discovered correctly. The file paths that handle installing programs aren't as simple as having all the files just floating around. You might be able to get away with transferring the programs from your HDD to your SSD but the cleanest way is to just re-install the programs on the SSD itself. 

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You just installed a new fresh copy of Windows onto your SSD when it seems you intended to transfer the existing one, completely different procedure.

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