So I recently just bought my first SSD ( the really cheap Kingston 120gb one) and a Seagate 2TB desktop SSHD. What I did was I cloned my old hard drive onto the new SSHD and that worked out fine. Then I cloned or migrated the OS of windows 7 from the SSHD onto my SSD. The problem is that I now dont know what to do because i cant open most of my programs from my SSD and I wanted to know if there is a way to open programs on my SSD that are on the hard drive. For example, open steam on my SSD which is on the other drive. I also don't have any of the default programs like notepad, cmd, regedit, etc.. on my SSD?
SSD and new SSHD help please?
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Then you did something terribly wrong.
Personally, I'd just start over and install fresh on the new SSD.
Then reinstall all your applications.
You could flail around for weeks trying to 'fix it', or just install clean and know everything works.
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A fresh install on the new SSD will ensure that the OS is running properly on that specific drive.
Which it does not seem to be doing.
Clone/migrate from the original HDD to the SSHD
Clone/migrate (just the OS?) from the SSHD to the SSD
It is not working well....
Quick 100% solution is to install fresh on the desired target drive, then install your applications on whatever drive you wish. Some/most on the SSD, others elsewhere.
That way, you know things will work, instead of attempting to 'fix' things.
I just don't to have a fresh install on the ssd then having the same problems. If I were to do a fresh install on the ssd, how would that change the fact that I can't run programs on the ssd from the sshd? Ughh xD All I wanted was an ssd as a primary and a sshd as a secondary and have things run like normal as if i never changed anything.
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Wherever you choose.
A 120GB SSD can actually hold a LOT of applications. Mine has the OS (Win 8.1 Pro) and all applications apart from games.
Currently ~70GB used space.
Games, music, video live elsewhere. Those are what really take up space.
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Without knowing exactly what you did with the multiple cloning thing....unknown.
In the current OS registry, what is the designated path for Application X? Dunno.
And as you mentioned problems with notepad, cmd, etc....things are not right.
So...do you want to attempt a maybe fix, or a real fix?
The thing is that with the programs and such. When i was cloning i was able to choose what i wanted to clone so chose the basics which were the windows folder, some documents and a few other things and could have easily left out theose programs so i can always go back and fix that.
No i was but i did not know which were important enough. I used the Paragon program to clone btw it had the feature to choose which applications. But you see the programs arent a probelm right now. Being able to access the hdd programs from the ssd is the problem.
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Drive letters.
The registry in your current OS does not know what drive letter it is supposed to be pointing to for each application.
Your SSD = C
Your old drive used to be C
Your applications used to be on the old C.
That drive is now D, or E, or whatever.
The registry and shortcuts (cloned from the old "C") still think it is "C".
So....in the time we have spent discussing this, you could be halfway done to it actually working correctly.
Multiple clone/migration levels, and it not working correctly at the end.....not surprising.
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You need the OS on only one drive (SSD).
Save all of your critical data in one place
Disconnect ALL drives except for the target drive (SSD in your case)
Install
Do all the updates
Now you can connect the other drives and install things as you wish
So then how is a fresh install helping me if what I want to do is use my sshd as the storage of all my applications and run them from the OS on the SSD. I know what I'm talking about is a possibility because i read about it countless times and it's what people do with their ssd's all i want to know is how do they set it up that way?
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I have mine set up that way. OS and almost all applications on the 120GB SSD.
Other applications and games on a different drive.
They are on a different drive, because that is where I installed them to.
But trying to use applications that are currently install on a different drive, in a new OS that knows nothing about them...that is an issue.
Simple storage on a different drive? Definitely yes. Music, video, etc live elsewhere.
Which is why I cloned the OS from my previous primary drive to the SSD so the OS does recognize the applications i just feel as if I left something out but I don't know what. So i need to uninstall ALL of my previous programs from m,y SSHD to then reinstall them just to use them from my SSD?
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Maybe you did leave something out. You're the only one who knows what boxes you clicked.
But given the current state, what is the easiest, fastest way forward?
Pick a particular application.
Where does that exe live? On the C drive, or on some other drive?
Where does your current OS think it lives? What does the registry say?
You could spend 30 minutes per application, tracking down where the exe is, creating a new shortcut in the new OS, and maybe it works.
Wash, rinse, repeat for each and every application. (And some of them will NOT work right)
Or, you could reinstall. 5 minutes each..done.
If you are talking about Steam games, they can be easily moved from drive to drive.
Applications, not so much.
But given the current state, what is the easiest, fastest way forward?
Pick a particular application.
Where does that exe live? On the C drive, or on some other drive?
Where does your current OS think it lives? What does the registry say?
You could spend 30 minutes per application, tracking down where the exe is, creating a new shortcut in the new OS, and maybe it works.
Wash, rinse, repeat for each and every application. (And some of them will NOT work right)
Or, you could reinstall. 5 minutes each..done.
If you are talking about Steam games, they can be easily moved from drive to drive.
Applications, not so much.
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