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New Boot Drive. Help Confirming Boot Drive is Running Windows.
I am new and bad at computers, please take that into consideration.
I installed a new SSD and then mirrored my old HDD onto the SSD. I then made the SSD my Boot Drive in Disk Management. I am a little unclear about the ramifications.
- First, does making the SSD my Boot Drive mean that my SSD is running Windows? If not, how can I confirm which drive is running Windows? If it is not the SSD, how do I make it be the SSD?
- Second, once I am sure that it is my SSD running Windows and not my old HDD, can I delete all the Windows files from the old HDD? I would like to do this.
- Third, is there any reason I should swap the names of my drives? Right now Drive C is my old HDD and I am booting from drive D, my SSD. I would prefer if new programs defaulted to being installed on my HDD, but does this make Windows updates, or anything else important, awkward.
- Fourth, I notice that when I run computer games off my SSD now that none of my personal settings are retained - whereas if I run them off the HDD my personal settings are as they were before the mirror. Could someone explain this to me? If the SSD is a mirror of the HDD, then shouldn't personal settings in applications also be mirrored?
Here is a screen shot of my Disk Management. Drive C is my old HDD. Drive D is my new SSD. Drive E is storage.
Thank you!
EDIT: In connection with the first question, if I right click a folder on my desktop, Properties reveals the Location of that folder to be the desktop of my C drive. Conclusive evidence I am not running Windows from my new SSD on drive D?