Having trouble accessing user accounts after installing new boot drive.

[ApexPr1mal]

Recently my 1tb hard drive ran into some problems and I got stuck in a boot loop on Windows. I recently bought a new 120gb SSD for a fresh install of windows without having to get rid of any of my games or documents. When I finally installed windows, all of my applications were still in their respective folders in their drives, but I can't use my user profile on my old drive, and furthermore, all of my old documents and programs do not show up in the start menu. Is there any way to restore my old system profile, or is there anything I can do to place my old files and games under my new user profile without moving them to the SSD? 

[kb5zue]

Although you would think everything would be fine, the problem is that with a fresh install of Win10 on the SSD, the Win10 software does not "know" where the other stuff is located.  Data files are one thing but actual working software is something else.  Data files are easy files usually created by the user and saved to a particular drive and folder but software such as games and things Windows needs to "know" where they are.  The process of telling Windows where they are takes place during the software program installation.  If I am wrong, please correct me but that is my general understanding of the situation.  Good luck.

[Redicat]

15 minutes ago, ApexPr1mal said:

Recently my 1tb hard drive ran into some problems and I got stuck in a boot loop on Windows. I recently bought a new 120gb SSD for a fresh install of windows without having to get rid of any of my games or documents. When I finally installed windows, all of my applications were still in their respective folders in their drives, but I can't use my user profile on my old drive, and furthermore, all of my old documents and programs do not show up in the start menu. Is there any way to restore my old system profile, or is there anything I can do to place my old files and games under my new user profile without moving them to the SSD? 

https://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10/

 

 

If it does **NOT** work :

Simply go to your OLD HDD Change the name (rename) of your documents, pictures, etc make new folders or HDD named Documents, Pictures, Videos etc 

 

Go to AppData on your old HDD_Drive_Letter:\Users\(Your User)\AppData

COPY EVERYTHING IN THE DIRECTORY

 

Do the following

WINDOWS+R = %appdata% KLICK OK go back to AppData by clicking it in the adress bar paste everything into your C:\Users\(Your User)\AppData folder

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files-winpc/how-to-access-appdata-folder/2194e37a-a36c-443d-8dc0-0b505f5bbb8e

 

next up Import Steam Library

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

 

[ApexPr1mal]

33 minutes ago, Redicat said:

https://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10/

 

 

If it does **NOT** work :

Simply go to your OLD HDD Change the name (rename) of your documents, pictures, etc make new folders or HDD named Documents, Pictures, Videos etc 

 

Go to AppData on your old HDD_Drive_Letter:\Users\(Your User)\AppData

COPY EVERYTHING IN THE DIRECTORY

 

Do the following

WINDOWS+R = %appdata% KLICK OK go back to AppData by clicking it in the adress bar paste everything into your C:\Users\(Your User)\AppData folder

 

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-files-winpc/how-to-access-appdata-folder/2194e37a-a36c-443d-8dc0-0b505f5bbb8e

 

next up Import Steam Library

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

 

Thanks, everything went smoothly and I just need to import my Steam library.