[Radii]

C drive is a SSD that is working fine. D drive is a 2 TB standard hard drive.

My HDD is dying. There are lots of bad sectors and its gotten to the point that with some frequency under normal operation, my D drive will hit 100% disk usage and I'll be forced to do a hard shutdown.

I've backed up a bunch of files from my D drive, most of the stuff I have there that isn't backed up is my Steam library, GIT repositories, etc, stuff I can get back. I'm ready to be rid of this one and to install the new one that I've purchased.


My question:

How badly is windows going to freak the hell out when my D drive is gone...
all of these installed programs that it won't be able to find? I don't even remember how I did it but I linked part of My Documents over to the C drive so that my Chrome cache sits on D (b/c my SSD is pretty small)?

WITHOUT REINSTALLING WINDOWS -- its a last resort, I have work stuff installed that will be a somewhat significant problem obtaining again that I'm willing to spend many hours of time cleaning things up on my own to avoid it -- how should I try to go about this?