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Should be plug and play. And gray fox said point steam to the games on hdd. But drive should show up.

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Hello.

My PC has a SSD for the OS and a HDD as a mass storage device. I reinstalled Windows 10 so I removed the HDD which had my personal files and some unimportant programs and games (Steam) on it. Then I deleted everything off my primary SSD and reinstalled Windows. Now I want to connect my HDD again. Do I have to do something before reinstalling the HDD or can I just connect it to the motherboard and everything is fine. Are there problems with the programs I have on the HDD?

Thanks.

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Programs will need to be re-installed to update windows registry, and create uninstall paths etc in Windows.

Permissions will be broke, so you will need to force ownership of the files again. 

Those are the two obvious things, generally it is not too painful.

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11 minutes ago, GrayFox1991 said:

Programs will need to be re-installed to update windows registry, and create uninstall paths etc in Windows.

Permissions will be broke, so you will need to force ownership of the files again. 

Those are the two obvious things, generally it is not too painful.

 

10 minutes ago, emtee.skull said:

Should be plug and play. And gray fox said point steam to the games on hdd. But drive should show up.

Thanks for your help. Everything is fine as long as I can get my data back.

 -+-+- This is a reminder to clean the dust filters of your PC! -+-+-

 

Main PC:

Ryzen 5 1600 3.8GHz - RX 570 4GB - 2x8GB DDR4 - ASUS Prime X370-Pro - Shadow Rock 2 - Define S - Seasonic Prime Gold 650W

500GB NVME SSD - 1TB SATA SSD - 1TB HDD - Windows 10 Pro

Dorm PC:

i5 4590 - GTX 960 4GB - 2x4GB DDR3 - ASUS H81M2 - Dark Rock 3 - Define R3 - 250GB SATA SSD - Seasonic S12 430W - Windows 10 Pro - Linux Mint

NAS:

Pentium G4400 - 4GB DDR4 - Fujitsu Esprimo P556 - 250GB SATA SSD - 2 x 4TB NAS HDD - 12V PSU - OpenMediaVault

Laptop:

Dell Latitude E6520 - i5 2430M - 2x4GB DDR3 - 250GB SATA SSD - Windows 10 Pro - Linux Mint

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