reef granite
Your hard drives will only be used if files stored on them are accessed. If you run, say, a game from your C: drive, your D: drive won't be used
Your primary hard drive (C:) is a HDD, which will lead to slow boot times and generally sluggish system behavior. Ideally reinstall Windows onto your D: drive (assuming the data currently on it can be deleted)
grizzled bloom
Your screenshots indicate you didn't
You need to either re-install Windows using an externally created installation USB (with the Media Creation Tool, as a bootable setup disk), or clone the contents of C: into D: with disk cloning software
Which is your preferred method?
The latter should keep everything exactly the same way it originally was, but has a small chance of failure on unusual configurations
reef granite
Don't clone from HDD to SSD, it'll mess up some settings and shorten the SSD lifespan
When reinstalling, make sure to unplug the HDD first, otherwise it won't create a boot partition on the SSD
grizzled bloom
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The second point is definitely a good one especially if the order was like that
The first point though, there is the question of "would it matter?"
static crow
Make sure after installing the ISO to your usb via the Media Creation Tool that you also select your ssd on the installing menu if this is the way that you're taking.
reef granite
The first point though, there is the question of "would it matter?"
I was told that Windows messes up Defragmentation and TRIM settings if you clone from one storage type to the other, but I've never tried this myself
static crow
I was told that Windows messes up Defragmentation and TRIM settings if you clone...
Yeah it does cause to my knowledge windows automatically sets it to where it detects if it capable of running fast or not so if you copy it it's just gonna copy with hdd settings and you may have data loss as well
it's also always nicer to have a clean fresh install
grizzled bloom
fair enough
reef granite
Is there a Windows install on your SSD?
reef granite
Open up Disk Management and take a screenshot
grizzled bloom
Don't do this since you'll need to install games again later. Screenshot Disk Management.
(Not sure? Right click the Start button and click Disk Management)
static crow
Don't take it out install windows to a usb and then press F8 repetitively on boot en then just boot from the usb and put a clean install on your ssd
right click the windows logo
on your taskbar, and select device manager
grizzled bloom
Don't take it out install windows to a usb and then press F8 repetitively on boo...
This is not good advice, as sometimes Windows will put the boot partitions in the first drive instead of your actual SSD
disconnecting the non-boot drives during Windows setup should 100% prevent this from ever happening
static crow
Okay, just ping me when you need help. I'm doing a clean install too rn