Nivagely
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Hi, I have a kinda of a big problem with my Storage at the moment. In order to explain better I'm going to have to go a bit further back before the problem.
Now I recently rebuilt a PC from my old one. New Case (Storm Stryker), New Motherboard (Asus Sabertooth Z77), Same GPU (680), New PSU (750 Corsair Modular Gold, Same HDD New SSD (intel 60gb)
Now what I was originally was going to do was Boot Windows 7 64 bit from SSD, and use my HDD as my primary Storage, All went smoothly so far, SSd booted Windows, but now due to lack of research I became stumped, I only wanted the SSD to boot Windows 7 and that was it, But when ever I tried accessing lets say steam for instance from the HDD It would not work, kept crashing, After a lot of work, I managed to use Regedit within the SSD to start all Programmes from the HDD, this didn't work entirely, It was very buggy, requiring a few restart of programs and ECT,
I managed to get Programs like VLC to work, and could play movies from the other HDD, however a lot of other programmes were still etchy and clunky.
Now this is where I'll become the local fool. I decided that I would just use the SSD as a backup Windows 7 Boot, incase things go wrong, However when I tried booting my Old HDD,
It wouldn't boot and kept getting lovely blue colourful screens,
Now due to a bit of bad luck, I tried reinstalling Windows 7 on the HDD and sadly it crashed in the final stages of installation( Damn You Microsoft), So I did the same standard thing but this time The MoBo UEFI Trolled me. Badly, It decided that The CD/DVD boot should become two different Boots, and it changed the priority to UEFI CD/DVD (Take note I just simply did not know it had done this) And when I tried reinstalling windows 7 onto the HDD the CD/DVD boot decided It didn't want to because they were MBT and not GBT.
Struggled at this for hours, trying usb installation and such, In short I formatted the drive. Discovered why it wouldn't Reinstalled, Cursed at the Mobo for hours upon hours.
Now with all this now known to me, I wanted to know if I could 'Easily use the SSD for solely booting Windows 7, and have the other HDD become the primary drive of sorts, and use the programmes and apps without having to cry myself to sleep while cursing about the damn UEFI For the pain it has caused >.>
Now I recently rebuilt a PC from my old one. New Case (Storm Stryker), New Motherboard (Asus Sabertooth Z77), Same GPU (680), New PSU (750 Corsair Modular Gold, Same HDD New SSD (intel 60gb)
Now what I was originally was going to do was Boot Windows 7 64 bit from SSD, and use my HDD as my primary Storage, All went smoothly so far, SSd booted Windows, but now due to lack of research I became stumped, I only wanted the SSD to boot Windows 7 and that was it, But when ever I tried accessing lets say steam for instance from the HDD It would not work, kept crashing, After a lot of work, I managed to use Regedit within the SSD to start all Programmes from the HDD, this didn't work entirely, It was very buggy, requiring a few restart of programs and ECT,
I managed to get Programs like VLC to work, and could play movies from the other HDD, however a lot of other programmes were still etchy and clunky.
Now this is where I'll become the local fool. I decided that I would just use the SSD as a backup Windows 7 Boot, incase things go wrong, However when I tried booting my Old HDD,
It wouldn't boot and kept getting lovely blue colourful screens,
Now due to a bit of bad luck, I tried reinstalling Windows 7 on the HDD and sadly it crashed in the final stages of installation( Damn You Microsoft), So I did the same standard thing but this time The MoBo UEFI Trolled me. Badly, It decided that The CD/DVD boot should become two different Boots, and it changed the priority to UEFI CD/DVD (Take note I just simply did not know it had done this) And when I tried reinstalling windows 7 onto the HDD the CD/DVD boot decided It didn't want to because they were MBT and not GBT.
Struggled at this for hours, trying usb installation and such, In short I formatted the drive. Discovered why it wouldn't Reinstalled, Cursed at the Mobo for hours upon hours.
Now with all this now known to me, I wanted to know if I could 'Easily use the SSD for solely booting Windows 7, and have the other HDD become the primary drive of sorts, and use the programmes and apps without having to cry myself to sleep while cursing about the damn UEFI For the pain it has caused >.>