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I have some questions regarding hard drives and partitions and am wondering if you can help me, u know how i am running a boot drive ssd and storage hdd, well i am clueless in regards to figuring out how to put OS and driver files on boot disk ssd, but i want all my user files and application files on the hdd and user files isnt that hard (i think) but i dont know how to put applications and their files there if you could please help me i would greatly appreciate it

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No, that will NOT work. Don't do that.
For applications, when you install something, choose what drive you want to install it on. The vast majority of current...
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Yes, my ssd is 120gb but i use a lot of games can i save them all and i also want my appdata folder on hdd, how do i do that? I want all applications on hdd so my ssd has more space allowing os to run smoother
 
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Would i just do what you do for docs folder with appdata and applications folder? I think that might work lemme know
 
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No, that will NOT work. Don't do that.
For applications, when you install something, choose what drive you want to install it on. The vast majority of current applications let yu choose at install time.
 
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i find it simpler to install apps to the default location (which will end up being the SSD), but moving / redirecting my media files and downloads folder to a HDD. a 120G SSD is big enough for a normal OS and a bunch of apps and still have 50% space left over for efficiency and whatnot. i'm only using around 48G of a 128G SSD and that is my Win8.1 and MS Office and Corel photo/video editors and an assortment of other small/medium apps. on my other machine, i'm using even less space since it's only Win8.1 and the assortment of s/m apps but no Office or Corel stuff, and Steam games are simply redirected to a HDD using the "mklink" command.

if you're feeling special and want to experiment, make use of the mklink command to move stuff to any other hard drive. it's like a shortcut, but better as it's transparent to the OS itself. it's just not very well documented, so you have to learn it on smaller less critical folders.
 
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