Move stuff from SSD to HDD

DennisColes

DennisColes

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I have a 60GB SSD which has Windows 7 Professional SP1 installed. I have just 6.28GB free of a possible 59.6GB.

Is it okay to move other programs installed on my SSD to the 1TB HDD without anything going wrong?

Any help on how I can free up space on my SSD will be appreciated.
 
Normally when installing games/programs if you click custom when asking to install it will let you choose where to install it,then just point it to your 1tb hdd

Disable s3sleep too it will save around 8gb
 
yeah s3 sleep = hibernate,you can disable system restore too but i wouldnt advise that just incase you run into trouble

only other options is upgrade to a 120gb ssd or use your 60gb ssd to cache the 1tb hdd? youd take a small hit in start up times but everything else will be just as quick,the benefits of caching is no space limits only your 1tb drive
 
S3 sleep is not hibernate. S4 is hibernate. S3 is the good one (in my opinion) hibernate is a step further and saves only a tiny bit of power.
 
Yup, assuming you haven't already, disable hibernation. Just in case you're not aware the best way to do this is to open a command prompt (be sure to run as Administrator if you leave UAC enabled) and then enter "powercfg -h off" without the quotes. This will disable hibernate and remove the hiberfil.sys in the root of the drive which is the same size as whatever amount of RAM you have in your system, so you'll gain 8GB in your case.
 
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