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Windows 10 pro reinstall
I changed the motherboard in my wife's pc. The old one had legacy bios, the new one has UEFI.
I booted it with the original SSD with the Windows installation that was running on the legacy bios board.
All seemed OK at first but the next boot it sat at the UEFI bios splash screen for a few minutes before finally booting into Windows 10 Pro. All programs were unbearably slow. I think because there was no EFI partition.
I initialized the SSD and did a fresh Windows install and things are working as they should.
Except, since the SSD is only 120GB, she had the default install location for programs set to D:, a 1TB HDD.
In Windows settings I tried to set the default program install location to D: but a warning pops that says there are apps already there and they have to be deleted to complete the operation. Everything else pointed to D: without issue.
Is there a way to recover access the programs stored on D: without reinstalling them and to install new apps to D: rather than C:?
I have Macrium backups can I do a restore since they were made on the old motherboard with legacy bios. Can I just restore the C: partition and expect it to work as before but with the UEFI bios?