How to install programs on SSD if my OS is not installed on the SSD drive?

[Itay080]

Hello, I have accidentally installed my OS on the HDD drive instead of the SSD drive, can I still install programs on the SSD drive? If so, how, because the SSD drive is not visible when choosing to install a program.

 

[kanewolf]

Just pick "custom" install for everything and choose what disk to install onto. I usually just change the drive letter and let the path be the standard one.

 

[Itay080]

Just pick "custom" install for everything and choose what disk to install onto. I usually just change the drive letter and let the path be the standard one.

Thanks for the response!
But, as I said, it just wont appear there.
I know that it is installed in my PC because in the drives management theres the C drive and a drive that has 224 GBs in it, and my SSD should have 250.
If it helps, windows says in the disk management section that this drive is reserved by the system, or something like that, my os is not in English so I can't say exactly what it says.

 

[photonboy]

I recommend reinstalling Windows to the SSD.

If you unplug all other storage drives (HDD/SSD) you won't screw that up.

Alternatively you can try CLONING to the SSD. For example,

1. download Machrium Reflect Free
2. Clone HDD to SSD
3. Shut down
4. Unhook all but SSD and boot to test
5. If works then attach HDD (if boots to HDD not SSD then go into BIOS and set SSD first), then
6. Format HDD

Other:
*If you can't see the SSD in Windows Explorer (i.e. "My computer") as a drive letter then you need to open Disk Management and allocate the drive.

 

[Itay080]

I recommend reinstalling Windows to the SSD.

If you unplug all other storage drives (HDD/SSD) you won't screw that up.

Alternatively you can try CLONING to the SSD. For example,

1. download Machrium Reflect Free
2. Clone HDD to SSD
3. Shut down
4. Unhook all but SSD and boot to test
5. If works then attach HDD (if boots to HDD not SSD then go into BIOS and set SSD first), then
6. Format HDD

Other:
*If you can't see the SSD in Windows Explorer (i.e. "My computer") as a drive letter then you need to open Disk Management and allocate the drive.

I rather not doing that, thanks for that anyways.
About allocating it, what should I allocate it as?
EDIT:
For some reason, it says that there are only 350MBs available and in the left bottom it says 223gb, why's that?
Sorry for the language of the OS.

 

[USAFRet]

OK here's what happened.

You installed the OS with both drives connected.
Mistakenly, the OS got installed on the HDD. That can be fixed, but if you want to leave it as is, no problem.
On the SSD, you see a 350mb System Reserved partition. That is your boot info. That is normal and expected. When you install Win 7 or 8 with more than one drive connected, that partition ends up on the other drive.

The reason you can't install to the rest of the SSD, is because that partition is simply not formatted yet.
That 223.23 space...right click on it, Format that partition, and give it a drive letter.
Then you can install stuff to it as desired.

Leave that 350mb space alone. It is required.

 

[Itay080]

OK here's what happened.

You installed the OS with both drives connected.
Mistakenly, the OS got installed on the HDD. That can be fixed, but if you want to leave it as is, no problem.
On the SSD, you see a 350mb System Reserved partition. That is your boot info. That is normal and expected. When you install Win 7 or 8 with more than one drive connected, that partition ends up on the other drive.

The reason you can't install to the rest of the SSD, is because that partition is simply not formatted yet.
That 223.23 space...right click on it, Format that partition, and give it a drive letter.
Then you can install stuff to it as desired.

Leave that 350mb space alone. It is required.

Thank you.