Moving from dual hard drives to single - looking for advice

[RoeKG]

Hello everyone,

I'm trying to take our newest computer that currently has an SSD Hard drive as the main boot hard drive and a 1 TB regular hard drive, and swap everything so it works only off of the 1 TB hard drive. This computer is mainly for my wife to design on, and having the dual drives gets in the way of her designing with Adobe creative cloud among a few other things (the SSD fills up, and then issues come up when you're working from both), so I'm going to take the SSD for my own computer.

My question is, how can I move everything important (design files, music, drivers, whatever) from the SSD drive to the 1 TB drive, and be sure that it will work and not lose anything? I figure it will be easy enough to install windows on the 1 TB drive and make that the boot drive in the BIOS settings, and for now I am jut copying files and pasting them in the 1 TB drive, but I'm concerned that when I take out the SSD that it won't work - some drivers could be missing somewhere, some files could be lost, etc.

Will copying and pasting the files over to the new hard drive be enough? Has anyone done this and have any advice?

Thanks for reading.

 

[johnb35]

You will have to reinstall windows on the HDD. Create a data partition on the hdd for all your personal data files and move them from the ssd to this new partition.

Why don't you just leave the way it is and just change the location of your files? Pictures, music, documents can easily be changed. Can't you store the design files on the hdd while still using the ssd? Where are they stored currently?