Keeping programs after installing a new drive

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Hi folks. I just bought a nice new SSD for my Desktop. I'm going to install my OS to it, but I was wondering something. Will I have to re-install all my programs for them to work?

I will keep my old HDD connected, but it will boot from the new SSD.

My question is how do I access and run the programs and games on my old drive as normal?

I've never had a computer with more than one drive so this is new to me.

Thanks for your help.

 

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Most games and apps these days wont run properly if you move them over to a new drive, So its best to just reinstall them.

This is going to take forever isn't it...

Well thanks. So if I re-install them onto the old drive will they show up in the "Start" menu, or will that only work on programs installed on the "C:" drive (the SSD)?

 

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You could always clone the old drive onto the SSD. Makes sense to have your programs on SSD anyway so that they benefit from the perfomance gain and keep your old drive installed as a storage / backup drive or for games.

I'd actually see more point in putting my games on the SSD as they are likely to see better performance.

The SSD isn't that big (60Gb) and about 20 will be taken up by the OS. I'd rather just have select programs on the SSD. To be honest I probably have programs that I never use on my old drive.