I have a couple questions about the use of dual hard drives

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Alex Zero

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Hey guys! Lately I've been thinking if building a gaming pc for myself, and I have made myself knowledgeable about almost everything except hard drives, which I still do not grasp fully. What I want to do is to have an ssd containing Windows and possibly other files that I need to boot quickly. Additionally I will also have a 2-3 tb hdd to be used for general mass storage. The thing is though, I've been gaming on a laptop for the past 5 years, and so I am left with some questions about using a dual hard drive set up. First of all, I know this may be ridiculously easy for some of you, but I'm not sure where it is that the desktop connects to. Like say for instance if I store a photo in the desktop, it is contained within the desktop folder. However, is that desktop folder contained within the OS? If I was to put something on the desktop and my OS was installed on the ssd, would that thing now be in the ssd? As for my other question, I need help figuring out how to store things in the drive I want them in. If I wanted to put a collection of photos on my hdd and a game on my ssd where would I go to access each drive so that I could move the files there? (I'm guessing its the my computer menu) Is there any easier way to specify where I want a file to go?

Anyways thank you so much if you can help this noob out :p
It means a lot.
 
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I built my first gaming rig about 2 years ago and I put my first SSD with an HDD in there. I learned out about most of your inquiries.

When you place an item on your desktop or anywhere within your account (when I say account I mean things like pictures, downloads, documents, etc) it is stored on your OS which is on your SSD.

The way I did it was I cleared my HDD and created three different files - Downloads, Games, and Programs, during the installation menu of different programs I would re-route the path to the correct drive, C: (SSD) if it was needed or my secondary drive which was the HDD used for storage.

And yes, you can move files back and forth accessing the "My Computer", they just show up as two different drives.
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I built my first gaming rig about 2 years ago and I put my first SSD with an HDD in there. I learned out about most of your inquiries.

When you place an item on your desktop or anywhere within your account (when I say account I mean things like pictures, downloads, documents, etc) it is stored on your OS which is on your SSD.

The way I did it was I cleared my HDD and created three different files - Downloads, Games, and Programs, during the installation menu of different programs I would re-route the path to the correct drive, C: (SSD) if it was needed or my secondary drive which was the HDD used for storage.

And yes, you can move files back and forth accessing the "My Computer", they just show up as two different drives.
 
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Depending on the version of windows you are using, you can move the "documents", "music", and "pictures" folders to the other drive. This is a little harder to do in XP. OS updates automatically install to the OS drive.

Most programs can't be copied once installed. Instead you should uninstall the program and reinstall to the appropriate drive.
 
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So if I put Microsoft office on the SSD or C drive and transfer the Word docs to the HDD or E drive, will Word know where to find the doc files?
 
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