Hello, I am new to this forum so I hope this is the correct place to ask. I've recently moved to a new desktop computer from one that I've had for about 10 years. The old one has become the family center plugged into the TV, for printing and a few other common apps. It is a desktop I put together myself, an Intel I5 on an ASUS motherboard, Nvidea 1080 graphics card, running Windows 10.
I had migrated all of my personal files over to my second internal hard drive, with the plan to remove that drive and use it as an external on my new computer. I had no trouble using the HD on my new computer, but removing it from the old one caused it to repeatedly blue screen, giving me an error that unfortunately I did not write down. I don't remember the exact error ID# or terminology, but It was a missing drive error, and said it was caused if a drive is malfunctioning or lost connection.
I assume that I am missing a preference setting or backup setting somewhere that is pointing at that drive. I did try to sanitize that before I did this, of course, and I'm not so sure where to look. It was my storage drive on the old computer, and the videos, pictures, etc. shortcuts were all to it, but I re-mapped those.
Is there a way to do this cleanly, or maybe a way to search common settings to remove the references to the old HD? I can migrate the files via another external drive, but I'd really like to utilize all that storage space where it's needed.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
I had migrated all of my personal files over to my second internal hard drive, with the plan to remove that drive and use it as an external on my new computer. I had no trouble using the HD on my new computer, but removing it from the old one caused it to repeatedly blue screen, giving me an error that unfortunately I did not write down. I don't remember the exact error ID# or terminology, but It was a missing drive error, and said it was caused if a drive is malfunctioning or lost connection.
I assume that I am missing a preference setting or backup setting somewhere that is pointing at that drive. I did try to sanitize that before I did this, of course, and I'm not so sure where to look. It was my storage drive on the old computer, and the videos, pictures, etc. shortcuts were all to it, but I re-mapped those.
Is there a way to do this cleanly, or maybe a way to search common settings to remove the references to the old HD? I can migrate the files via another external drive, but I'd really like to utilize all that storage space where it's needed.
Thanks for any help you can provide.
