SSD & Hard drive issue

Rusko187 · 12 Jun 2011 at 14:57

Hi, I bought a new computer and specced that I wanted an SSD drive with the intention of just utilising it for the OS, what I'm finding now is on some installations it does not give me an option to spec where I want items installed to.

Is there anyway I can set the Hard drive as the first place the computer looks to install to?

Rusko187 · 15 Jun 2011 at 12:47

Ok bit of an update on this, what the situation is the OS is on the SSD but I would like literally everything else on the Hard Drive. A couple of solutions I have thought was simply setting the hard drive to slave but I'm told that will not exactly solve it...

The other idea I was told by an employee at ******s is to change the hard drive to master and the SSD with the OS as the slave drive... Would that create issues for the boot up or could I change that so the computer will read slave on boot?

Please help I'm a serious n00b!

Yozzer · 15 Jun 2011 at 13:16

Rather depends on the size of the SSD. I have two 60gb giving me 120gb, I installed Windows 7 as normal, (using one would be the same), as I can choose which to install it on during the install process.
Once installed, I right clicked on the main folders for me as the user, and selected properties, and move the folder. I then moved each folder, (mydocuments, my music etc.), to a folder on the hard drive which I created. When I installed anything like a game or a program, I selected during the install to put it on my hard drive, not the SSD. If the option does not show, that folder cannot be moved.
It ends up with just windows plus maybe a few programs on the SSD, the rest on the hard drive.
There are plenty of walk throughs on the internet, just use Google, the above is just to give you the idea, depends what your experience is with a PC.

Rusko187 · 15 Jun 2011 at 13:20

Quite minimal in all honesty lol, I've only got a 30gb SSD with about 7gb left! Looking inside though my hard drive doesn't have the jumper connector on the slave pins... Would it make a difference in fitting that?

Yozzer · 15 Jun 2011 at 14:27

In my humble opinion 30gb is much too small to hold an operating system. The newer motherboards using the Z68 chipset could use your SSD as basically a cache, but otherwise I cannot see how you will continue to be able to run with such a small SSD. As you use the PC the contents of the SSD will grow.
With regards to your hard drive, I assume you can see it, in which case it is correctly installed. When you install a program, it will automatically select the disk with the OS on it, not any other disk. I have to manually choose in the options during install to do that, and other than Microsofts system software that may install such as updates etc., I have not yet found a program that does not give me the option to install where I want. Maybe it is time to phone a friend.