Satellite P70-A01D: change the drive letters after the 2nd SSD upgrade

I think it's a generic UEFI / Win 8.1 question (not according to model).

However, FWIW, I have a Satellite P70-A01D (bought locally here in Australia).

It is a victory of 16 GB 17.3 inch Gen4 i7 4700MQ Intel HM86 8.0 64-bit RAM.
http://www.MyToshiba.com.au/products/computers/satellite/P70/psplpa-01d002/specifications

I updated the OS to Win 8.1

The P70 is supplied with a drive Bay HARD vacuum #2 - I bought a 250 GB Samsung 840 EVO SSD that I want to use as the main system disk / boot Win 8.1.

I installed this SSD in bays #2 and from there I had no problem using the wizard of Samsun cloning software provided with the SSD (VCC 4.0) to clone my 1 TB on the SSD system.

There are a lot of instructions from Samsun and around the web on how to clone and "substitute" of a HDD with a SSD - however there are much less when it comes to 'Add' the SSD - in the #2 Bay - while always keeping the original HDD fully functional as an additional drive.

After execution of the cloning software, I tried just go into the settings of the UEFI on reboot and change the order of the boot drive placing the SSDS over HARD drive.

It worked but there are obviously questions still as I had not renamed readers SSD worked as system but he was editing as D: and HARD drive was still C: and most of the system/application paths were always scheduled to access C:!

It led to the crash and restart cycles of the Bureau (? & or explorer.exe?) and two consistent error messages:
-"SkyDrive engine Sync host has stopped working".
-"Host for the synchronization setting process has stopped working".

I saw in the Control Panel-Administrative Tools-Computer Management-Online Storage-online-online right click on each drive disk management online online that I can access > however
(a) I'm not sure if the solution I need is this simple;
(b) nervous about change of letter on a disk while running the system; and
(C) uncertain steps in order of evolution [IE. C: (non - sys) becomes M; D: (sys) becomes C:...

At the moment via UEFI I'm back to working with the system on the HARD disk rather than on the SSD seems stable and without compromise of my screwing around!

Apologies for the long post by train to make sure to include all relevant information. I think that my final goal is double win bootable 8.1 / Ubuntu 12.04 of the SSDS probably with Ubuntu on a 50 GB partition leaving 200 GB (enough?). I want to keep a slab of SSD space available for photo and video editing: +/-100 GB!

I wondered simply assign new letters to readers, however the notes at the bottom of http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter state:

You cannot change a drive letter if the drive is a system partition or a boot partition.

Suggestions please?

Hello

I think you could try to change the letter to readers as suggested in the Microsoft article.
Where this is not possible, try to use 3rd party such as GParted software.
http://gparted.org/LiveUSB.php

You could try changing the drive letters might start to the top of the unit using the live USB version.
But it might be possible that your system would not initialize correctly after this change.

So you should not forget to mark the partition as bootable.

Your comments would be appreciated

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