Win7 O/S set up questions.

Phil6340 · 17 Mar 2012 at 10:44

Hi all,

Just bought a load of components to set up my own rig, thinking fast boot up, put the O/S on its own drive and fast games do the same. So in my infinate wisdom I have bought;

1 64gb M4 SSD - Planned to have O/S on here only.
1 128Gb SSD - Planned to have 3/4 games on here, possibly MS Office too.
1 1Tb F3 - To store everything else including non speed critical applications.

For those that know, you are probably already tutting at my lack of understanding. I am hoping though that with a little help from my Overclocker friends I am going to be able to work something out.

Having installed the O/S on the 64gb drive I then tried to install origin (Battlefield 3) this also defaulted to the C: drive. Then downloaded BF3 which defaulted to the C: drive. So now the C; drive is pretty much full.

Since then I have downloaded a few things and unless i missing something I dont always get the option to choose the destination of the folder.

So I am trying to gather some information of what I can do 'protect' the 64gb drive as the C: drive for the O/S only and get some defaults set up for the other two drives.

Hope thats as clear as mud and can anyone help?

Phil6340 · 17 Mar 2012 at 16:27

thanks for the responses, and hi Shuzzbutt, you can see I started building.

I do have a Z68 board but I am not familiar with the caching appraoch you have mentioned.
How do I create a junction point? I am looking at the origin settings but cannot see where I can change the settings you mentioned Shuzzbutt.

Any step by step instructions

Phil6340 · 17 Mar 2012 at 16:30

Ok update that last post I have found the setting for origin to change where a game is installed...can I move the game retrospectively as I have downloaded it and it is in C: or do I need to delete and re-install?
I have also electronically downloaded office 2010 which is on the c: drive.

Phil6340 · 18 Mar 2012 at 09:46

I tried changing the default location in Origin for saving games which appeared to work but then it still d/loaded to the C: drive.

I am happy to do a completely fresh install as there are a few things I want to change in the case set up too. But. I just want to have a clear plan in mind for how I am going to do it.

Is there anywhere I can read up on this caching approach and would this mean I wouldn't need two SSD drives?

BTW it is Win7 Home Edition I am using.