Moving SSD to a new Build PC

[RadiantDarkness]

Hello,

I currently have three SSD drives in my PC. One contains Windows 10 Pro & programs. Another contains my Windows account folders (Documents, Pictures, Desktop, Music). Final drive is my Steam games drive.

I am about to build a new PC. The new PC will have a NVMe drive in it that will contain Windows and Programs. I then intend to install the data and Steam drives in the new setup. (The current Windows drive will end up formatted and in an external caddy as a backup drive).

I looked but cannot find the answer to this question:

Once I install the SSD with my Documents etc on it in the new build. If I change the location of Documents, Music, Pictures etc to the this drive will all my documents appear? Or should I set the folders to a new location, then move the data across?

Thanks.

 

[turbot1984]

Hello,

I currently have three SSD drives in my PC. One contains Windows 10 Pro & programs. Another contains my Windows account folders (Documents, Pictures, Desktop, Music). Final drive is my Steam games drive.

I am about to build a new PC. The new PC will have a NVMe drive in it that will contain Windows and Programs. I then intend to install the data and Steam drives in the new setup. (The current Windows drive will end up formatted and in an external caddy as a backup drive).

I looked but cannot find the answer to this question:

Once I install the SSD with my Documents etc on it in the new build. If I change the location of Documents, Music, Pictures etc to the this drive will all my documents appear? Or should I set the folders to a new location, then move the data across?

Thanks.

Yeah no problem, just set up shortcuts to your docs on the old ssd's. Windows will default to the system drive in its menu, best leave it uncluttered.

 

[RadiantDarkness]

Yeah no problem, just set up shortcuts to your docs on the old ssd's. Windows will default to the system drive in its menu, best leave it uncluttered.

Thanks. I was worried that moving the folders to a preexisting folder might wipe the contents. I'll take TrueImage backups of all 3 drives before I get started as a precaution.

 

[RadiantDarkness]

New PC built and it all worked fine.

However I did get an oddity today.

My documents, pictures, etc live on D:\Home\My Name\Documents etc. Today I opened D:\Home and all that was in there was a Video folder. However clicking on the Document link opened D:\Home\My Name\Documents and all my files were there. I ran "chkdsk D: /r" and "sfc /scannow" and no errors were reported. As a precaution I copied everything out into another folder on a different drive. If I typed D:\Home\My Name then I could see the folders. I don't know if this is related but in the Event Log there is an error: "Event 3070 -Notifications for the volume D:\ are not active. The volume change journal is not active. (HRESULT : 0x8007049b) (0x8007049b)".

I copied the files back into the root of D:\Home and repointed the links to them and it seems to be fine.

Any ideas?