SSD for boot only?

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How do i use my ssd for boot only and put everything else onto my second drive?
 
1. Set the SSD as the boot drive in BIOS,
2. Install Windows with hard drive disconnected
3. Reconnect Hard Drive
4 Change drive letters through Disk Management (not necessary, but might keep things tidier)
5. Start installing software on second drive.

1 & 5 are the most important steps, if the BIOS is properly set to boot from the SSD, you should not need to do the other steps, however to be extra safe, follow the other steps.
 
It's a bit pointless having an SSD for windows only (unless it 30GB). To make the most of it, you really want all your applications on it. Obviously games tend to benefit more so if you're saving space for those, fair enough.

One thing you can do is redirect all the special docs/music/picture/videos folders to your other drive. Simply browse c:\users\YOU. Highlight the folders, right click>cut and then paste on the new drive. Window automatically does all the under the hood stuff keeping track of the new location so other applications will save there by default.
 
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linktoinsanity said:
1. Set the SSD as the boot drive in BIOS,
2. Install Windows with hard drive disconnected
3. Reconnect Hard Drive
4 Change drive letters through Disk Management (not necessary, but might keep things tidier)
5. Start installing software on second drive.

1 & 5 are the most important steps, if the BIOS is properly set to boot from the SSD, you should not need to do the other steps, however to be extra safe, follow the other steps.
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I kind of did it different from that, but as another post i did i got the hardrive back that wasn't connected properly so my SSD has windows on it and the other one is empty but need to know how to get all photo's video games downloads etc onto the other drive?
 
marc2003 said:
It's a bit pointless having an SSD for windows only (unless it 30GB). To make the most of it, you really want all your applications on it. Obviously games tend to benefit more so if you're saving space for those, fair enough.

One thing you can do is redirect all the special docs/music/picture/videos folders to your other drive. Simply browse c:\users\YOU. Highlight the folders, right click>cut and then paste on the new drive. Window automatically does all the under the hood stuff keeping track of the new location so other applications will save there by default.
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Do i cut and paste the c:\user file or the x2 files: me and public and put them into the 2nd drive?
 
I believe that back in the day, most software used to be perfectly happy for the installer to change where the software, settings, data, etc. should be stored.

It seems that nowadays, there is an assumption that everything will be stored on C:, typically in "Program Files", "Program Files (x86)", "Program Data" or USER\AppData.

When I build a system from scratch I install Windows and relevant drivers, apply patches, install "Licensed" software (e.g. MS-Office, Photoshop, etc.), update everything and apply patches and make an image copy which I can use quickly to restore a "Clean" system and then install other "Free" software such as Audacity, EAC, VLC, MP3tag, IfranView, etc.

It would be great if these didn't have to be reinstalled every time I make a clean install to sort out some Windows issue.
 
marc2003 said:
It's a bit pointless having an SSD for windows only (unless it 30GB). To make the most of it, you really want all your applications on it. Obviously games tend to benefit more so if you're saving space for those, fair enough.

One thing you can do is redirect all the special docs/music/picture/videos folders to your other drive. Simply browse c:\users\YOU. Highlight the folders, right click>cut and then paste on the new drive. Window automatically does all the under the hood stuff keeping track of the new location so other applications will save there by default.
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Agreed. Fill the SSD up with your most used software and use the hard disk drive as mass storage for your documents/ downloads etc.
 
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