Installed HDD to move files from SSD, moved a bunch of stuff, and now I screwed up everything

Anti-antihero · Feb 25, 2015

Hey Tom's Hardware community! I followed a YouTube tutorial on having a HDD be where I install everything and my SSD be where Windows is at. The video showed me how to go into the Reg Edit and find the right files for the drive to work how I want to. After that, I moved the "My Documents" folder location from my SSD over to the HDD like this tutorial said. When I brought up one of my games, it wouldn't read my previous game saves and it refuses to save new ones. That's because the game saves were in "My Documents." I re-installed the games and no results. All of my games were installed through Steam, so I uninstalled the games and Steam and now I can't install Steam. I don't know why it is doing this. In my HDD (which is drive E, by the way) everything is in blue (file wise). Can I reverse the changes I did, or do I need to remove everything and reinstall Windows?

Here is that video I saw: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLXZhQu_GMM

Boogieman_WD · Feb 25, 2015

Hey Hero.
I'd recommend that you try and do a system restore from a previous point (before you did those changes). This should fix the issue and restore the Documents and Program Files location to the SSD.
About moving steam and games, you could take a look at this: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=231

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

Anti-antihero · Feb 25, 2015

Boogieman_WD :

System restore failed big time. What else should I do?

EDIT: I, for some reason, cannot post the image even through an internet hosting website. Here is the link instead: http://postimg.org/image/s1r5jvyab/

EDIT 2: I booted the PC into safe mode and tried the system restore through there. Same result... total failure.

Boogieman_WD · Feb 26, 2015

Hmm you could try this here: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/18583-user-folders-restore-default-location.html
It is a tutorial which shows you how to reset the paths of the User Folders back to their default locations.

Anti-antihero · Feb 28, 2015

Boogieman_WD :

Thanks for the tutorial, Boogieman, but in my case, it didn't help. I had to completely reinstall the OS. I'm thankful you put time and effort to help me, so I gave your response as the answer. Thanks for your time, and sorry I kind of wasted it.

Boogieman_WD · Mar 2, 2015

No worries, you haven't wasted my time at all, after all that's what I'm here for. The important think is that you were able to resolve the issue, Hopefully everything's going to be OK now.

Cheers!

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