Help 're-tuning' my SSD and HDD

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Recently took some steps to help tune my SSD;

  • Turned off fetch and superfetch.
    Moved Pagefile.sys to secondary drive to free up space.
    Disabled hiberfil.sys to free up space
    Removed some gaming programs and other applications such as STEAM and placed them via drag and drop onto the secondary drive
    Had a brief lapse in judgment and defragged the SSD
Since the above actions some bad things have been occurring;

  • Programs are taking extremely long to load if loading at all. IE; Steam takes a few minutes to even popup the login screen. Any program on either drive has the chance at loading immediately, or taking a few minutes
Action taken since noticing this;

  • Turned on fetch, superfetch
    Moving pagefile.sys back to primary SSD drive
I was hoping the above would fix the issues that I'm having, but so far nothing seems to work. There are no system restore points for me to revert back to, either. No issues with the computer before undertaking these adventures.

Options;

  • Reformat the drives. I've really nothing important on the computer, just a terribly slow internet and some wasted days redownloading games (3 days for my internet to download Fallout4). If this is the option, I would prefer to put the O/S on the HDD and leave the SSD open to just gaming applications. This will eliminate my problem of my SSD being listed as primary and filling up with junk like it did this last time.

    Possibly did real damage to the drives and need to purchase new one(s). Looking for hardware suggestions and some peanutbutter and jelly instructions because I'm pretty out of practice.

    Something simple i'm missing? Hopefully?
 
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Darkbreeze
Moving applications via drag and drop, is a very bad idea and it's actually surprising this didn't simply "break" the system entirely.

Where they are installed to, is where the system expects them to be, the registry SAYS they are and where they should stay. That does not mean however that in some cases, especially cases like with Steam, they can't be installed to secondary drives in the beginning. That's what should actually be done if you do not want them on the C:\ drive. Considering these things that you've done, I'd probably just do a clean install, but you can also try running an SFC/Scannow to see if the filesystem can be mended.


What OS version are you running?


Also, your theory is backwards. Putting the OS on the SSD is...
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Moving applications via drag and drop, is a very bad idea and it's actually surprising this didn't simply "break" the system entirely.

Where they are installed to, is where the system expects them to be, the registry SAYS they are and where they should stay. That does not mean however that in some cases, especially cases like with Steam, they can't be installed to secondary drives in the beginning. That's what should actually be done if you do not want them on the C:\ drive. Considering these things that you've done, I'd probably just do a clean install, but you can also try running an SFC/Scannow to see if the filesystem can be mended.


What OS version are you running?


Also, your theory is backwards. Putting the OS on the SSD is the best methodology, and install other applications on the hard drive if you wish as well as creating all folders that will be frequently written to or re-written to, on the hard drive, to eliminate unnecessary wear on the SSD. Game files would be among those.

SSDs do not benefit gaming except in map/level loading, so that's pretty much a waste of a fast drive if you do things that way. The operating system however, is constantly being accessed, so it makes much more sense that you have that on the fastest attached drive.

Knowing your full system specs is always helpful in a tech forum thread as well, since there may potentially be hardware specific issues that we can't know, without knowing what's in there.
 
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