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Hello,

I have just bought and installed a new SSD into my PC. I decided to do a clean windows install which is all working fine. My problem now is that I need to reinstall all my program's so that the new OS recognises them. I have both my HDD and SSD running and both have a version of windows installed on them but I only want to use the SSD one. I don't necessarily want to install all my program's onto the SSD but I intend to reinstall some on my HDD and some on the SSD. So do I need to reformat the windows partition on the Hard Drive to remove it? Or can I somehow just reinstall all my program's to the new OS?

I really appreciate any help as I'm a bit stuck at the minute!

Thanks in advance.
 
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If your SSD is the C:/ drive used for windows, that is the drive all programs must be installed to. If you do an advanced installation routine to another drive you will end up with nothing but problems, if it even allows you to. Hopefully you have all the installation files for the programs you want to install either on disc or on an external drive so you can install them. As far as the other HDD. I would recommend just using it for storage of files like you would an external drive. You can even use it to point at for any scratch drives needed for programs like Photoshop, Paint shop pro or other graphics applications if you want, although the SSD is much faster. If you want to get the HDD clean and bare(Not the SSD. Make sure you've got...
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If your SSD is the C:/ drive used for windows, that is the drive all programs must be installed to. If you do an advanced installation routine to another drive you will end up with nothing but problems, if it even allows you to. Hopefully you have all the installation files for the programs you want to install either on disc or on an external drive so you can install them. As far as the other HDD. I would recommend just using it for storage of files like you would an external drive. You can even use it to point at for any scratch drives needed for programs like Photoshop, Paint shop pro or other graphics applications if you want, although the SSD is much faster. If you want to get the HDD clean and bare(Not the SSD. Make sure you've got the right drive selected when you do this.) just open windows explorer, right click on the hard drive and select format. Windows will do the rest.
 
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Ok then, so what I've done is move my games and steam onto the SSD as that's easy as pie. Then I will back up my entire HDD just in case, format it and then re-install/download the other programs (not many) I need to my SSD. Then I'll have a clean HDD for storage like you said :)

Thanks for your help!

 
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