How to use a Secondary hard drive?

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Hey guys, so I have a 60GB SSD just for my OS. It won't be enough space for all the games I own. How do I install games to a secondary hard drive? Will it create a program files? Where will the "my games" folder be?
 
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When you install a game you have the option to install to another directory. You can either remove the "C:" from the directory your game wishes to install to and replace it with your secondary drive letter e.g. "E:" or you can click "Browse" and browse to your secondary HDD.

You can change the folder you wish for it to install to. By default it will be C:/Programe Files/Ubisoft/...you can change that to E:/Games/Ubisoft...

Hope this helps,

Nick
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When you install a game you have the option to install to another directory. You can either remove the "C:" from the directory your game wishes to install to and replace it with your secondary drive letter e.g. "E:" or you can click "Browse" and browse to your secondary HDD.

You can change the folder you wish for it to install to. By default it will be C:/Programe Files/Ubisoft/...you can change that to E:/Games/Ubisoft...

Hope this helps,

Nick
 
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In your user directory, you can select your document folders => right click => properties => location and move them to your secondary drive.

For your games; when performing the instillation, change the install directory from your C drive to your secondary drive.
If you are using Steam, install Steam directly to the secondary drive and all games should automatically be installed there.

Personally, I would keep the My Games folder on the SSD.
Save game files do not take much space and it may give you a bit of a boost saving/loading your games.
 
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Alright then that is what I shall do. By the way, if I save my games onto the HDD, will it take longer to load? If so, I wish to get a 128GB-512GB SSD but I am wondering if it will load the games quicker than the HDD. Will it?
 
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I doubt it will take much longer, if anything at all; you will still have to load most of the game files from the mechanical hard drive in any case.

That being said, save game files are normally really small.
Even if you receive no save/load boost having it on the SSD, there is not much of a downside leaving them there.
 
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