New PC + Old HardDrive

[Prada]

Hello today I finished building my new PC. It wasn't a smooth process lol but I finally got through it and I was able to turn on my pc and update all my drivers and ect. After I did all of that I unplugged everything and put my old hard drive from my old pc.(My new build is also using a new ssd). The problem is I am not able to access my users and when I try to search an application that I had on my old harddrive it doesn't show up in the windows search.

[BiotechBen]

3 minutes ago, Prada said:

Hello today I finished building my new PC. It wasn't a smooth process lol but I finally got through it and I was able to turn on my pc and update all my drivers and ect. After I did all of that I unplugged everything and put my old hard drive from my old pc.(My new build is also using a new ssd). The problem is I am not able to access my users and when I try to search an application that I had on my old harddrive it doesn't show up in the windows search.

have you initialized the drive? and does it show up in file explorer?

[Prada]

I don't know what you mean by initialized the drive. Yea it shows up in file explorer and I can see some applications in it that are stored in the program files.

[Prada]

I need to get all of my settings back .

[Prodigy_Smit]

13 minutes ago, Prada said:

Hello today I finished building my new PC. It wasn't a smooth process lol but I finally got through it and I was able to turn on my pc and update all my drivers and ect. After I did all of that I unplugged everything and put my old hard drive from my old pc.(My new build is also using a new ssd). The problem is I am not able to access my users and when I try to search an application that I had on my old harddrive it doesn't show up in the windows search.

If your windows is on your ssd you cannot access applications previously installed on the HDD.

[Prada]

Just now, Prodigy_Smit said:

If your windows is on your ssd you cannot access applications previously installed on the HDD.

Is there any other way to access all of my settings and ect? 

[Prodigy_Smit]

2 minutes ago, Prada said:

Is there any other way to access all of my settings and ect? 

You would have to boot to the HDD and clone it on the HDD onto the SSD.

[Yatharth Shah]

If you have installed Windows on the new SSD, it will now become the C: drive and the other drives will be mapped to other drive letters and that will cause some confusion in the system due to absolute file paths.

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-windows_install/how-to-move-windows-10-from-hdd-to-ssd/1a2082d2-aa23-44fe-87a7-77b4e53aa901 . This link might be of help.

[Prada]

3 minutes ago, Prodigy_Smit said:

You would have to boot to the HDD and clone it on the HDD onto the SSD.

Great I will try that tomorrow morning. Is there anything I should be cautious about or be aware of. Also do you know any good resources/tutorials that show the method you are giving me?

[Yatharth Shah]

9 minutes ago, Prada said:

Great I will try that tomorrow morning. Is there anything I should be cautious about or be aware of. Also do you know any good resources/tutorials that show the method you are giving me?

If possible take a complete backup of your HDD and then try the process. Also, make sure to have a spare computer nearby for troubleshooting.

[Yatharth Shah]

10 minutes ago, Prada said:

Great I will try that tomorrow morning. Is there anything I should be cautious about or be aware of. Also do you know any good resources/tutorials that show the method you are giving me?

https://in.pcmag.com/dvd-burners/124598/how-to-copy-your-windows-installation-to-an-ssd

[Prada]

On 1/4/2021 at 12:46 AM, Yatharth Shah said:

If possible take a complete backup of your HDD and then try the process. Also, make sure to have a spare computer nearby for troubleshooting.

How would I backup my entire hdd?

[ElectroBrocoli]

On 1/4/2021 at 12:14 PM, Prada said:

Hello today I finished building my new PC. It wasn't a smooth process lol but I finally got through it and I was able to turn on my pc and update all my drivers and ect. After I did all of that I unplugged everything and put my old hard drive from my old pc.(My new build is also using a new ssd). The problem is I am not able to access my users and when I try to search an application that I had on my old harddrive it doesn't show up in the windows 

maybe the application can't run on your new build, eventhough windows 10 support older application, maybe it just a file corruption in your hard drive

[Prada]

1 minute ago, ElectroBrocoli said:

maybe the application can't run on your new build, eventhough windows 10 support older application, maybe it just a file corruption in your hard drive

No , I am pretty sure that isn't the issue because I can go on my harddrive and open the application. My problem relates to the solutions that were given by the other people who commented on this thread. I need to clone my hdd onto my ssd so I can boot into my ssd like if it were my hdd.

[ElectroBrocoli]

1 hour ago, Prada said:

No , I am pretty sure that isn't the issue because I can go on my harddrive and open the application. My problem relates to the solutions that were given by the other people who commented on this thread. I need to clone my hdd onto my ssd so I can boot into my ssd like if it were my hdd.

for thatb thing idk how to do it, since you need to make 3 partition first in your ssd and then copy your file