Remove Redundant Files from old Windows Drive?

ian.broxmeyer

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I have been running a system with 2 Drives for about the last year. It started with only a 1tb HDD, and a few years later I added a 256gb SSD for Windows and programs. I never formatted the HDD before reinstalling windows on the new SSD and I now have old programs on my HDD that I can't seem to get rid of.

You see, I installed most programs to the SSD which I was afraid was wasting it's precious space, so I installed some current programs to my HDD. And I can no longer tell which programs are redundant on both drives, or which programs I still use from my HDD. Is there a program that can help with this?

Thank you, sorry for any confusion.
 
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Piriform's Speccy and its resultant logs saved to your hard-drive just might provide you with enough infornation concerning presently active foreground and background programs and utilities, and I think their respective locations (SSD or HDD). It will take some Sherlock Holmes work to cough up a list of things to uninstall, delete, etc.
1. First of all, whenever you pose a query indicate what OS is involved. That info may have a bearing on any response you may receive. Capiche?

2. What do you mean "I now have old programs on my HDD that I can't seem to get rid of." Presumably these are programs that are no longer needed or wanted by you. Why can't you "get rid of" them like any other unwanted program?
 

ian.broxmeyer

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I have programs that still run from the HDD. But I installed some new programs that I use on SSD that are also on the HDD. I do not know where they run from and which one I really need to delete.
Also, windows is installed on the SSD, but also on the HDD as I did not format the HDD before using the SSD as the C drive.
 

RolandJS

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Piriform's Speccy and its resultant logs saved to your hard-drive just might provide you with enough infornation concerning presently active foreground and background programs and utilities, and I think their respective locations (SSD or HDD). It will take some Sherlock Holmes work to cough up a list of things to uninstall, delete, etc.
 
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