Windows 10: Accessing programs on boot drive from old drives.

Discus and support Accessing programs on boot drive from old drives. in Windows 10 Network and Sharing to solve the problem; Hello, I recently upgraded to an ssd for a boot drive with around 500gb. Now, I would like to put some programs here but I want most of my games and... Discussion in 'Windows 10 Network and Sharing' started by TheItaIianMike, Mar 21, 2020.

  1. THEITAIIANMIKE
    TheItaIianMike Win User

    Accessing programs on boot drive from old drives.


    Hello,

    I recently upgraded to an ssd for a boot drive with around 500gb. Now, I would like to put some programs here but I want most of my games and programs to be be loaded from one of my two hard drives. Currently, the ssd is the C: drive. I also cannot seem to access programs from any drive except from the C: drive. How would I go about this?

    :)
     
    TheItaIianMike, Mar 21, 2020
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  2. SPEEDY11131
    speedy11131 Win User

    Windows 7 booting off wrong drive?!?!?

    Please move if this is in the wrong place.

    I have two hard drives, a 1.5TB drive, and a 160GB drive. Windows is installed on the 1.5TB drive, as are all my files and programs. The 160GB drive has a bunch of old files, and apparently the bootmgr and boot folder. Nothing else is on the 160GB drive, other than media files etc.

    If I remove the 160GB drive from the machine, windows refuses to boot, plug it back in, it works fine. The setup with two hard drives I have now is temporary, as the 160GB drive will go into another machine.

    My question is, can someone give me a step by step on how to make windows force to boot off the 1.5TB drive, ignoring the 160GB drive in the boot process completely?
    I don't know how to do this in Windows 7, on XP I would just run the /fixmbr command and its related ones.

    Any help would be appreciated.

    Note: I would really really rather not have to wipe and reinstall, I know it can be done without one as I've had this issue with XP before.
     
    speedy11131, Mar 21, 2020
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  3. DRONE
    Drone Win User
    Accessing a Hard Drive...

    You can boot from Norton Ghost and clone that disk to your hard drive. Then boot normally install virtual machine with xp and from that machine access cloned drive. It's a complex but safe process.
     
    Drone, Mar 21, 2020
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  4. GLENNBUTLER1
    GlennButler1 Win User

    Accessing programs on boot drive from old drives.

    accessing old programs

    recently added second hard drive (CAccessing programs on boot drive from old drives. :)with Windows 10 OS in addition to old hard drive (windows 10 OS as well) (KAccessing programs on boot drive from old drives. :) which has my old programs - how do i access the old programs?
     
    GlennButler1, Mar 21, 2020
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