128GB SSD Using all it's room

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My 128 gb ssd is where my windows is installed so it's my c drive, unfortunetly, everything downloads there, and sometimes programs wont ask where to download, so overtime it filled up and is out of room, i dont wanna keep deleting stuff from it for fear of frying it.

MY QUESTION:

When i get a new SSD, if i download windows to my HDD first, so that it is my C drive, then download windows onto my SSD, but select the boot priority to the SSD, would that work out, would the HDD be the C drive

Im sorry if i sound stupid, DANKE
 
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You are probably asking the wrong question, do you want the default setup location go to the second hard drive or do you actually want the regular hard drive to be the main boot drive and be C: ?

You can change the locations of your My Documents, Downloads, etc.. folders by right-clicking on them and changing where they point to in options.

Moving the default Program Files location for where programs install to is not supported by MS but it does work, mostly, there may be issues that come up at times you'd need to troubleshoot...
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When you say "download" do you mean "install"? Because you can easily change the download folder location to another drive, and even the setup folder to another drive, but I don't like doing the second one as it makes it harder to maintain.

Once you get a new SSD, you can clone your original one over to it, the new one should come with software for that. Then just swap the drive positions on the motherboard (so the new drive is on the lowest SATA port), go into the BIOS and set that drive as first in the boot priority, and your system will boot off the new drive with your original Windows setup on it. You can then use the old SSD for backup/storage/whatever.
 
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You are probably asking the wrong question, do you want the default setup location go to the second hard drive or do you actually want the regular hard drive to be the main boot drive and be C: ?

You can change the locations of your My Documents, Downloads, etc.. folders by right-clicking on them and changing where they point to in options.

Moving the default Program Files location for where programs install to is not supported by MS but it does work, mostly, there may be issues that come up at times you'd need to troubleshoot.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/how-do-you-change-the-default-installation/73450b25-d794-4f18-9add-75253b893343?auth=1
More details here if you want : https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/kb/933700
 
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