C drive crashed, programs installed on D

Question

I had a crash I couldn't recover from, so I had to reinstall Windows onto my C drive. 

My C drive was a 250 Gig SSD, but I had issues with room, so I pretty much started installing programs to my D drive. 

I couldn't recover from the crash by any means other than doing a clean install of Windows. (Wasted days trying to avoid it.) Side note, I decided that if I was going to do a clean install I would just upgrade to a 1 TB SSD.

Anyway I now have a clean install, updated with the most recent updates, and it seems to be running fine. But now I am looking at the task of reinstalling a bunch of programs, some of them quite large. I am simply looking for some way to shortcut the process. The programs all exist, my computer is just not aware of it.

I did start up Battle.net, and after an update it now is installed on my system. I just need to put a link on my desktop. But I tested out Starcraft II, and it does run, but takes forever to start up. And my system still doesn't recognize it. This is a massive enough program that I really don't want to do a full install, and then I still have Diablo III, and Warcraft II. My other giant project is an older Adobe suite. 

So does anyone know a way of short-cutting the reinstallation process, or making my system recognize the programs?

Answer 1

I had a crash I couldn't recover from, so I had to reinstall Windows onto my C drive. 

My C drive was a 250 Gig SSD, but I had issues with room, so I pretty much started installing programs to my D drive. 

I couldn't recover from the crash by any means other than doing a clean install of Windows. (Wasted days trying to avoid it.) Side note, I decided that if I was going to do a clean install I would just upgrade to a 1 TB SSD.

Anyway I now have a clean install, updated with the most recent updates, and it seems to be running fine. But now I am looking at the task of reinstalling a bunch of programs, some of them quite large. I am simply looking for some way to shortcut the process. The programs all exist, my computer is just not aware of it.

I did start up Battle.net, and after an update it now is installed on my system. I just need to put a link on my desktop. But I tested out Starcraft II, and it does run, but takes forever to start up. And my system still doesn't recognize it. This is a massive enough program that I really don't want to do a full install, and then I still have Diablo III, and Warcraft II. My other giant project is an older Adobe suite. 

So does anyone know a way of short-cutting the reinstallation process, or making my system recognize the programs? 

When your C: drive went, the registry went with it, which means that programs will have to be reinstalled.