SSD set up help!

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SteWoo

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Hi guys, just got my first SSD yesterday. Formatted my old HDD and threw Windows 7 on my SSD (which is now my C drive). All was well and good until i realised the User, Program Files(x86) and Program Files folders were in my SSD. Ive been trying for ages to move these files to my HDD (which is my D drive) but with no real luck. I can move the User file to my D drive but whenever I move Program Files(x86) or Program Files things start going bad. :confused:

Do you think its worth me messing about with moving the Program Files folders? I can just set up a new folder in D for all my installs or do some program require to be ran from the Program Files folders??

Thanks in advance
 
No point in moving the program files folder really? What size SSD do you have? Keep it there for stuff you want fast access to? on my 64GB SSD I got windows and a whole host of usual programs that every PC has on there (Browsers, office etc etc, even steam, use steam mover to move games off to a normal HDD when I am not really playing them).

Also if you use junction points, I found a great guide but at work so can't look for it, to move user data than windows think its in the correct place still.
 
Mines 60gb. I think il just set up a new folder in my D where il install all the stuff i dont want on my SSD and move User to D as well!
 
Do you think its worth me messing about with moving the Program Files folders? I can just set up a new folder in D for all my installs or do some program require to be ran from the Program Files folders??

Thanks in advance
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No :)

You'll just cause a real muddle fuddle if things start misbehaving.
 
Ive ran into a different problem now :)

I decided to my a folder in my D drive where i will install all my programs like Steam and iTunes etc, but I just installed iTunes to D and some files went over to my C drive (SSD)??

Does anyone know how or why this happens? I dont want the files taking up my precious SSD room :p

Thanks!
 
Make sure you've turned off disk indexing & limited size of page file to that of your RAM or less - you can add a pagefile to another disk.

Even if you instal to another drive some data will always be stored on C:\ that's the way windows works.
 
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