Problems after installing SSD and HDD

Mindless7333

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Hi guys, I recently bought a Samsung 840 evo SSD and a seagate 3tb 7200.12 hard drive. I'm using a Gigabyte Z77-DS3H motherboard. Before this I already had a WD Blue 1tb hard drive with windows 7 installed. My aim was to have windows on just the SSD to boot from and then access the majority of my files and programs from the other drives.

So I've installed both the SSD and the seagate hard drive and installed windows onto the SSD (the original hard drive with windows on it was still connected, I've read that I should have disconnected this first though it installed fine). These are the problems I'm having:

When the pc is left to boot normally I get MBR error 1 and 2 - "Press any key to boot from floppy". In the bios it is set to boot from the SSD. The same error occurs if I press F12 and choose the SSD from the boot menu. If I choose to boot from the original WD hard drive, I get the dual boot menu and can choose from both versions of Windows 7 which both work. But I'm wondering why to access windows on the SSD I have to boot from the WD hard drive, when I'm definitely using windows on the SSD as the files are there, it is way faster etc.

I can't access my files properly on other drives, running programs comes up with .dll missing errors and, for example, all my itunes music can't be found. I think this is because the drive letters change on each version of windows. Originally my WD partition with windows was my C drive, and still is if I choose that version of windows. However if I use the SSD version of windows then the SSD becomes my C drive and the WD windows partition becomes D, so presumably programs are still directed to files on the C drive. Is there a remedy for this or do I need to reinstall everything?

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks! :)
 

Mindless7333

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Thanks for the reply! :) So I went to repair windows with just the SSD connected and strangely it appeared as though there was no os on there at all despite having the windows files etc so I did a clean install and the first problem is now fixed. However, the second problem is still there in its entirety albeit with different drive letters. Is it possible to still use my programs etc on the other drives or do I need to reinstall them all?
 

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Programs and such typically write important data to the windows registry and user's app data folder and therefor most of them will need to be reinstalled to the new win7. Please be sure to install those that you don't want on the SSD to whichever letter the HDD was assigned. Windows defaults to installing everything to the C drive.