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Myles Rowlands

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Hi everyone, I’ve just bought a new ssd to replace my SSHD as a primary drive, I’ve just installed windows on the ssd but the thing is my SSHD is now showing up as a “reserved drive” and I my steam library is apparently uninstalled and I don’t have any of my photos or music, just wondering what I need to do to have both drives running st the same time, many thanks
 
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The reserved partitions you're seeing on your SSHD are leftovers from it originally being a boot drive.

Your games and files should still be on the SSHD as a different drive letter. Assuming the drive letter is D:

  • ■Steam normally installs to D:\Program Files\Steam. Follow the second half of these instructions ("How do I move my existing Steam installation?"). You can leave the games on the SSHD, or move them to the SSD if you have the space.
    https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129
    ■Documents should be in D:\Users\yourname\Documents
    ■Photos should be in D:\Users\yourname\Pictures
    ■Music should be in D:\Users\yourname\Music
    ■etc.
If your SSHD is not showing up with a drive letter, you probably just...
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The reserved partitions you're seeing on your SSHD are leftovers from it originally being a boot drive.

Your games and files should still be on the SSHD as a different drive letter. Assuming the drive letter is D:

  • ■Steam normally installs to D:\Program Files\Steam. Follow the second half of these instructions ("How do I move my existing Steam installation?"). You can leave the games on the SSHD, or move them to the SSD if you have the space.
    https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129
    ■Documents should be in D:\Users\yourname\Documents
    ■Photos should be in D:\Users\yourname\Pictures
    ■Music should be in D:\Users\yourname\Music
    ■etc.
If your SSHD is not showing up with a drive letter, you probably just need to assign it one.

https://support.wdc.com/knowledgebase/answer.aspx?ID=137

Since you reinstalled, Windows may require you to "take ownership" of the files on the SSHD before you can access them. This is normally straighforward unless you used Bitlocker to encrypt some files, or have some third party encryption software installed. In that case, remove the SSD, boot off the SSHD, and decrypt everything first. Then boot off the SSD again. Once this is completed, and you've copied or confirmed you have access to all the files on the SSHD, then it's safe to delete the reserved partitions on the SSHD (just be aware doing so will make the Windows installation on the SSHD unbootable if it's the only drive installed, which may or may not matter to you).
 
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