I just recently built a new pc and used my old ssd with my os and old hdd that has my all my games and such on it. When i did the fresh install of windows 7 i didnt have my hdd in i connected it after it was up and running. ( I shut it off to do this.) It shows that the hdd is in and connected and when i open it i see all the files and stuff on it but i cant doing anything with them. Like my pc isnt seeing it as an internal storage, more like an external hard drive. How do i get it back to where i can run my games and stuff off it?
try proporties>security>advanced and see if you have permissions to do what you want
Like my pc isnt seeing it as an internal storage, more like an external hard drive.
i don't understand
Like i cant launch anything from it or anything. i can copy files to and from it like you would with just like a simple flash drive for example. And when i go into the control panel where you can uninstall programs it doesnt even show the stuff thats installed on my hdd.
you can run all of your programs without them being installed in windows, windows does not go through your stuff to find programs, things will only show up in places like controlpanel-uninstall if an installer as been run in that installation to tell windows that a program has been installed and it's directory
all of your stuff should still work, you just have to find the executables yourself
When ever i try to launch any games or programs the little loading icon appears by the cursor a second then nothing ever happens..
have you taken full ownership of the drive?
7 is really weird about that, dunno if it's causing your issue but is the first thing to come to mind.
Also what does the drive look like in Disc Management? Where does it show up in "computer" in explorer?
I also think it's an ownership problem! Is your new User name/PC name the same as before?
I can tell you from personal experience, even if your username PC name and licence key for windows are exactly the same, the permissions for an additional hard drive will still be different users. You will see the old user and machine as Account Unknown (indecipherable gobbledygook).
Okay as i was typing a reply to your comment, i had an ahaa moment and deleted what i was gonna say, but would changing the disk drive letter back to what it was before change anything?
Yes i made sure it was just so everything remained the same as in my old build.
Were the programs installed with a different installation of windows? You need to reinstall programs if you did a fresh install of windows, even on the other hard drive. The new windows installation won't have the registry entries for all the programs.
Ugh yes they were. I had to do a fresh install of windows after i switched from my old amd based system to intel. This is going to be a long day of installing games..
that has nothing to do with it, it might be preferable to you to have everything installed in windows, but it's not going to fix anything
I actually think that this is his problem. If you reread the post(s), he says he put his old harddrive into his new PC with a new OS and can't launch the programs that were on it from the previous windows install, but can read and write to it normally. Basically, you can't do that because there are no registry entries for the programs, and no way for windows to launch because the registry is where configuration settings for programs are stored, excluding portable applications that keep their configuration settings in the same place as it's executable.