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I am currently running a single 1TB HDD with Windows and all my programs and files on it. I want to upgrade to a 128GB SSD as a boot drive, so only having windows and maybe a few programs if they will fit. Is there a way that I can keep the programs installed on my other drive while migrating (or would I benefit from a clean install of Windows) to an SSD.

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Yes. You can easily have Office installed on a different drive.
But in reality, that probably won't be necessary. Applications, apart from games, are not really that large.

My 128GB SSD contains Win 8 Pro, Office 2013, Adobe Lightroom, Corel Video Studio, PaintShop Pro, a crapload of other programs and utilities....currently ~50GB used out of that drive.

Programs don't really take up that much space. I have FAR more...
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Will this work with programs such as Microsoft office with product keys and all? What about all my files how can I keep them?

 
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Yes. You can easily have Office installed on a different drive.
But in reality, that probably won't be necessary. Applications, apart from games, are not really that large.

My 128GB SSD contains Win 8 Pro, Office 2013, Adobe Lightroom, Corel Video Studio, PaintShop Pro, a crapload of other programs and utilities....currently ~50GB used out of that drive.

Programs don't really take up that much space. I have FAR more music/video/games taking up drive space, than applications.

For your files? Copy them elsewhere first, and have them offline. That is always the safest bet.
Do whatever OS and drive manipulations you want. Copy them back when everything is working
 
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