New Hard Drive, Local DISK C OLD FILES

[chasingtherich]

So I recently built a new rig, and well, I installed my new OS onto an SSD. The only issue is, my old hard drive used to be my C drive... all of my files are still there and I'm heavily grateful for that... but, On that old hard drive I also had a MASS of Adobe programs and projects... I've tried to open them... but I simply can't simply because it's pointing indirectly as if it were still the C drive while it's now the F drive... :/ Is there anyway for me to change the name of my bootup drive? so that my old hard drive could be named the C drive just so I could sort this issue out? :/

 

[Snipergod87]

You will need to re-install the software, the registry keys and other changes are not in the new Windows install, products like adobe and other will not function without them, often in those registry keys are often the serial codes for the software, in addition to many other software related functions.

 

[chasingtherich]

Right, I've figured out how to change the names of the drives... but I'm scared to change the drive letter of my C drive to something else, will windows stop working?

 

[ex_bubblehead]

If you change the letter of the system volume (C: in this case) to something else you will brick the system.

 

[Snipergod87]

Windows will cease to function.

 

[Meatfish]

Yes, just reinstall the software and then run CCleaner. You can also safely manually remove the old files and folders, but will need something like CCleaner to remove any old registry entries.