I was given a new computer by my son, it is a very nice Alienware Aurora R10 AMD. My old computer was also an AMD (HP Power Desk Omen).
My question is, why can't you just reassign letters so that programs from slave (my old HDD) work properly and use shortcuts from the new drive?
Why can't you give the slave the letter C and the new boot disk E and just tell BIOS to boot from E, so you don't have to go through reinstalling programs and games with all your settings, usernames, passwords..etc?
It seems silly to have a new disk that is nice and fast because of no clutter - just to clone it and clutter it up again.
Both drives are set to AHCI, both are the same speed - only dif is the new one is SSD, and the old one is SATA.
Even if I had to go into BIOS every time to tell it what to boot from, it would be worth it, as long as the slave was able to point to the correct registry and files because of the letter.
Can this be done, why not, and if not, what's the point of life?
My question is, why can't you just reassign letters so that programs from slave (my old HDD) work properly and use shortcuts from the new drive?
Why can't you give the slave the letter C and the new boot disk E and just tell BIOS to boot from E, so you don't have to go through reinstalling programs and games with all your settings, usernames, passwords..etc?
It seems silly to have a new disk that is nice and fast because of no clutter - just to clone it and clutter it up again.
Both drives are set to AHCI, both are the same speed - only dif is the new one is SSD, and the old one is SATA.
Even if I had to go into BIOS every time to tell it what to boot from, it would be worth it, as long as the slave was able to point to the correct registry and files because of the letter.
Can this be done, why not, and if not, what's the point of life?