How to assign space in a new HDD? Added to an old one?

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I have 1TB WD Blue, but while assigning space I only assigned around 150 GBs to my Local Disk C, now I need to expand. I have an old WD Blue 80GB HDD, can I use it to increase my Local Disk C space? I know how to fit it in the cabinet and connect the wires and all but how do I assign space to my C drive? Thanks.
 
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I don't recommend using the 80GB HDD at all.

It's not very large in comparison, and has a good chance of being unreliable. (If you run DIAGNOSTICS it might be useful as a temporary backup if you decide to upgrade from W7/W8 to Windows 10. You could create a c-drive backup image using Acronis True Image Free (WD drives) or Seagate DiscWizard or similar)

*As said, are you using all of the 1TB capacity? (about 930GB usable).

1. Disk Management
2. Look for "unallocated"
3. recover that (unless you want to create a volume and format it as the E-drive)

There are PROS and CONS on whether to use the entire 930GB for the C-drive or to have it split into partitions. I personally recommend using 180GB for the C-drive and the remaining...
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What you can do is actually mount it under the C drive in a 'linuxy' fashion now by assigning it a 'mount point'. I'm going to assume that you are using Win7 or newer.

step 1: Create a directory where you want to fold the space into. This isn't really optional and is one of the limitations.
step 2: Create the partition on the 80gb drive and format it if you haven't already done so.
step 3: open 'control panel' - 'administrative tools' - 'computer management' - 'storage'.
step 4: on the 80gb drive, right click - select 'assign drive letters and paths'. What you'll do is now instead of assigning it a drive letter, you'll point it to that directory you created instead.

After doing this, instead of having a C: and D: drive (or whatever it was) you'll have all the space folded together into a single drive as presented by the OS in a single C: drive. There is a downside to this, mainly being that unless you actively save files to the directory you created (which by reference will put them on the 80gb drive) it will attempt to save them on the C drive.

This isn't a problem if you want to do something like install games to it which creates a consistent place to put them (ie: create c:\games and mount the 80gb drive to the 'games' directory...), but if you have several programs it does require a bit of focus on where you're putting stuff.
 
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Hi,
I don't recommend using the 80GB HDD at all.

It's not very large in comparison, and has a good chance of being unreliable. (If you run DIAGNOSTICS it might be useful as a temporary backup if you decide to upgrade from W7/W8 to Windows 10. You could create a c-drive backup image using Acronis True Image Free (WD drives) or Seagate DiscWizard or similar)

*As said, are you using all of the 1TB capacity? (about 930GB usable).

1. Disk Management
2. Look for "unallocated"
3. recover that (unless you want to create a volume and format it as the E-drive)

There are PROS and CONS on whether to use the entire 930GB for the C-drive or to have it split into partitions. I personally recommend using 180GB for the C-drive and the remaining 750GB for your "E-drive".

If you partition this way, then you can later CLONE just the C-drive to a 250GB SSD which if overprovisioned will have roughly 180GB to 200GB as usable space.

*For STEAM GAMES I'd put them on the E-drive. Such as "E:\Steam".

Ask if you need help.

**You may need some free partition software to sort this out at this point.
 
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