transferring user folder from old windows installation

[Jojomatik]

First of all: I dont think my problem is that hard to solve, but I'm just lackin the technical terms to describe my problem in few enough words to research my problem on google, since I'm not a native english speaker. (Feel free to correct any mistakes I make but just dont start insulting).

Ok, I built a new System a few days ago but my case-shipping was delayed so i tested everything on the motherboard box as kind of a testbench.
I installed windows from an usb-thumbdrive on my new ssd.

When my case shipped i put everything inside it including my old hdd from my old pc I bought in 2013.

My system now shows me both drives as C: and E:

Since I stored some data in my USER folder and on my desktop ( I guess that wasn't a smart idea?!), I wanted to access from Windows on the new drive, i tried to open the folder.
E:\Users shows me some more folders: E:\Users\USER is my personal folder (idk why windows generated this name, because my new windows installation called it C:\Users\johan, standing for my name: "Johannes"). When i try to open it it asks my for administrator permissions and i click on "continue". Then it takes ages to load (i first suspected that my old hdd is just very slow) but after the green bar kindof stopped in the section behind the little "x" for cancelling i realised theres nothing going to happen.

 

I started to get a little bit scared of not being able to access my data anymore at this point :(.
I booted my PC from the old HDD which took ages because windows needed to get used to the new hardware (i guess?! ) but after about 10 minutes i was able to access the old users folder from the hdds windows.
I created a folder directly on the hdd called "OldUserFiles" and copied some data from the user folder to this one.

Then i rebooted my PC from the ssd (it worked) and the a notification about some drive error (sorry that i cant reproduce what the displayed text actually was) and i restarted my pc by clickin this notification thingy. (Never used the windows 10 notification feature).

After like 30minutes waiting for my hdd to get "repaired" i was finally able to access the OldUserFiles folder.

But the USER folder is like 200-300GB in total and i have just 60GB left on my hdd, so i would have to grab like 50GB of data at each given time copy it, try to open it from the ssd's windows, go back to the hdd's windows delete it in the USER folder and repeat.

This will take very long i guess and i'm afraid of corrupting any data on my harddrive or even killing it.

Is there a way to access the USER folder from the ssd's windows?
Anybody that ever had the same problem?

Thanks for your help.

(Im sorry if there is a similar post on this forum but as you may have realised i have problems explaining my problem in like 20 sentences so im not able to make out some keywords for putting in to google or the forums search feature)


 

[Guest]

When I tried to do something like this I right-click > Open in new window in order to make it work. Still saying yes to any admin stuff. But that worked for me without much tinkering. Hopefully you too

[Jojomatik]

3 minutes ago, Syn Messer said:

When I tried to do something like this I right-click > Open in new window in order to make it work. Still saying yes to any admin stuff. But that worked for me without much tinkering. Hopefully you too

Well if i open it in a new window it just freezes and shows an empty Explorer window stating "Explorer" in the title bar.

As before if i try to open it my hdd goes to 100% usage but its not doin anything

[Guest]

Could be because it is transferring from a mechanical drive to an SSD. I only have mechanical drives at the moment so can't be much help. Though if you have another drive in your system that you can temporarily use I would try that. Otherwise I am out of ideas 

[Jojomatik]

54 minutes ago, Syn Messer said:

Could be because it is transferring from a mechanical drive to an SSD. I only have mechanical drives at the moment so can't be much help. Though if you have another drive in your system that you can temporarily use I would try that. Otherwise I am out of ideas 

It actually took ages to load but while i was watching youtube videos for like 40 minutes it actually loaded! Windows is weird sometimes.
I appreciate your help.
Thx!

[Guest]

No problem. Glad you got it working ^^