Games keep BSOD on secondary HDD

Oliver Henwood · 5 Oct 2020 at 11:42

So I recently upgraded my PC completely, the only two things which remained the same were my Nvme ssd and my old HDD. I did put in a new 1tb SSD also for newer games.
Currently however every game which i have on my HDD either loads extremely slowly about 20x slower than it used to or it just straight up blue screens upon opening a game.
Any game running off the nvme ssd or new ssd runs absolutely perfectly.
If anyone can give me suggestions on why my hdd is dying when running a game id be very appreciative.

Oliver Henwood · 5 Oct 2020 at 11:48

I just moved the nvme over with the same windows ive always had installed. Windows seems to have detected everything correctly

Oliver Henwood · 5 Oct 2020 at 12:26

Xyclops said:
Could it be that some drivers left over from the previous hardware are causing problems? Personally I always install Windows from scratch if using new hardware. I am surprised that doing what you did didn't cause Windows to deactivate itself, as normally a license is meant to be used on one computer

Maybe I should do a fresh install of windows, last night it did come up prompting me to activate windows but that disappeared when i restarted the PC

Oliver Henwood · 5 Oct 2020 at 12:29

snips86x said:
Did you enable ahci in the bios for the ssd?
What's your spec and include PSU make/model?

No idea what that means but current specs
Corsair RMX 750W PSU
Intel I7 9700K
GTX 1080
G SKILL 3200MHZ 16GB RAM
Asus ROG Strix Z390-F
Samsung 860 EVO 1TB SSD (the new one which works fine for gaming)
samsung 250gb nvme ssd
Seagate 2tb hdd (Where all my games were which now cause bsod)