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i installed a new samsung 250 evo and fresh install of windows 7 on it with old hardrive unplugged, now when i plugged in my old hardrive it shows 3 drives. c with 231gb on it an e drive that says system reserved 33mb free of 99mb and an f drive that i just formatted that says 931gb free of 931gb, my question is what is this e drive? and if its part of my hard old hard drive how do i put them back together. also now i am ready to reinstall steam and origin should i put them on the ssd and the games on the harddrive or just put it all on the hard drive? thanks
 
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Use disk manager to look at the partitions on the drives. More than likely it is on your old hard drive - but to be safe.....

Disk manager will allow you to remove the extra partition, then you can extend the partition to take 100% of the drive.

I would leave about 25% of the drive free - so make sure you have about 55GB - 60GB free on the drive. I would move all your documents, music, videos, pictures, etc., to the hard drive....they won't benefit much from being on the SSD.
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Use disk manager to look at the partitions on the drives. More than likely it is on your old hard drive - but to be safe.....

Disk manager will allow you to remove the extra partition, then you can extend the partition to take 100% of the drive.

I would leave about 25% of the drive free - so make sure you have about 55GB - 60GB free on the drive. I would move all your documents, music, videos, pictures, etc., to the hard drive....they won't benefit much from being on the SSD.
 
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i checked and it is on the old drive, i quess i will just leave it that way, i do want to put my docs, music and pictures on the hard drive, not sure how to do that also was wondering where to put steam and origin, if it would benefit any to have them on the ssd and the games on the hard drive or just put evcerything on the hard drive?
 
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Some of the games may benefit from being on the SSD. I find complex programs benefit from the SSD - Adobe CS6 has a great speed performance gain by being on the SSD. I would say it would be trial and error to see which ones benefit the most. The downside to SSD is the cost per GB of storage (about 5-10 times that of a HDD), but the upside is a tremendous speed boost in read/write as compared to the HDD.

Music, documents, video, and other data files that are small in side (less than 5GB-10GB) aren't going to benefit much (this is a single file size), but if you are reading 1,000 files that are small - the read times will be dramatically different.

 
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i have way to many games to fit on my ssd, but was wondering if it has any benefit to install steam and origin on the ssd and the games themselves on the hdd, and if it is possible to do this.
 
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http://steamcommunity.com/discussions/forum/1/864961629638428155/
 
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