Hi All
Sorry in advance for the long explanation but would like to be as clear as possible in the hopes someone might be generous enough to help.
I purchased a new Samsung EVO SSD which I successfully installed to my PC. I cloned the old HDD drive to it using the Samsung software, and have amended the boot priority in my BIOS to the new drive.
I can tell that it is indeed booting up from the SSD (known as E: drive) as it now takes less than 6 seconds to boot which is fantastic. I can see the E: drive in file explorer and have no problems accessing any files, so far so good.
Here's my problem though: I now have one old (still valid) installation of windows on my C drive, and a new one on my E drive. There are some files I want to keep on my old C drive but overall I'm happy to delete the windows installation on it. The real problem is that I can see that the desktop screen is still from the C drive (if I download a new file to C: it will appear, whereas it I download to E: it will not). Strange in my opinion as I can see that the system is overall a lot more responsive since the SSD was installed, yet it still seems to be using the old HDD windows installation.
I checked MSConfig and under the startup tab, it does say "C:\Windows".
How can I safely delete the old C drive windows and make sure that everything is picked up from the E drive installation going forward?
Many thanks
Sorry in advance for the long explanation but would like to be as clear as possible in the hopes someone might be generous enough to help.
I purchased a new Samsung EVO SSD which I successfully installed to my PC. I cloned the old HDD drive to it using the Samsung software, and have amended the boot priority in my BIOS to the new drive.
I can tell that it is indeed booting up from the SSD (known as E: drive) as it now takes less than 6 seconds to boot which is fantastic. I can see the E: drive in file explorer and have no problems accessing any files, so far so good.
Here's my problem though: I now have one old (still valid) installation of windows on my C drive, and a new one on my E drive. There are some files I want to keep on my old C drive but overall I'm happy to delete the windows installation on it. The real problem is that I can see that the desktop screen is still from the C drive (if I download a new file to C: it will appear, whereas it I download to E: it will not). Strange in my opinion as I can see that the system is overall a lot more responsive since the SSD was installed, yet it still seems to be using the old HDD windows installation.
I checked MSConfig and under the startup tab, it does say "C:\Windows".
How can I safely delete the old C drive windows and make sure that everything is picked up from the E drive installation going forward?
Many thanks