Adding a HDD shortcut under my SSD

techdude9 · May 5, 2016

My SSD has it's own shortcut as seen in the picture, is there a way to create one for my HDD there to access it faster? I had it on quick access before but it'd be more convenient if is a way to have it right next to the SSD shortcut in my file explorer.

I have to click 'This PC' and then my HDD to access it. With my SSD I just have to click that shortcut and I'm in.

Dreggle · May 5, 2016

Right click the drive. click pin to quick access.

noidea_77 · May 5, 2016

Or create a shortcut and pin it to the task bar: "C:\Windows\explorer.exe /n /e,/root,D: /select,D:\[YourDocumentsFolder]"

techdude9 · May 5, 2016

Dreggle :

That puts it underneath the quick access where my pictures, music, videos, documents etc are

I was hoping it would be possible to put it next to where my SSD icon is, but if that's not possible i'll just put it on quick access.

Dreggle · May 5, 2016

techdude9 :

does it have its own drive letter? such as (X

?
Wow it made it into a face

techdude9 · May 5, 2016

Yep drive D. Here's a bigger pic

I want another thing like the circled part for my HDD to keep them together and easier to see on the side.

Also is it normal for my storage drive to not have Program Files x86 folder? (My SSD has it, which is my boot drive and my primary drive). It's ok if it looks like this?

I just got my SSD yesterday and still figuring out how to use it properly with a hard drive.

Dreggle · May 6, 2016

techdude9 :

You can make a Program Files x86 folder and move everything into it in the harddrive. and then when u install things just choose that folder if it isnt by default. im still working on how that left panel works il get back to you if i can figure it out.

Dreggle · May 6, 2016

I don't think it is possible to make it show the D drive without going into the registry but what you can do is click on that little arrow next to "This PC" and that should have both drives. If you open it, it will stay open. Sorry i do not have the knowledge to help you any farther registry-wise. Registries are not my strong point. Let me know what you think and if you have any more questions to do with Windows Explorer feel free to reply. Good Day!

techdude9 · May 6, 2016

Dreggle :

Thanks and I don't care to play around with the registry for this so I'll just do like you said and open This PC with the arrow.

techdude9 · May 6, 2016

Dreggle :

Ok I wasn't sure if that would work, thanks

noidea_77 · May 6, 2016

techdude9 :

You can make the folder, but you can't simple move stuff over to it. That would require excessive path-change to the registry, ini-file and so on.

techdude9 · May 7, 2016

noidea_77 :

so I should have made it before installing anything to that drive to avoid this then.

noidea_77 · May 7, 2016

techdude9 :

Right! That's the downside of migrating to a SSD. Beside that it's a good idea to do a fresh Windows install on the SSD.

Dreggle · May 7, 2016

noidea_77 :

techdude9 :

You can make the folder, but you can't simple move stuff over to it. That would require excessive path-change to the registry, ini-file and so on.

But you could manually install things to it, just not migrate?

techdude9 · May 7, 2016

noidea_77 :

Never migrated. Bought the SSD installed it fresh into my pc then started installing programs onto it like that. I can uninstall the programs and re-install them into the folder.. as you can see I don't have very much on it and it'll take no more than 5 minutes.

Another question.

SSD performance before rapid mode
http://i.imgur.com/kAikTZe.png

Peformance after rapid mode
http://i.imgur.com/rjeIzUv.png

(pics won't embed)

Any reason to disable rapid mode? It's using up a lot of my 8gb ram but I feel the speeds are slow for an 850 EVO w/ 250GB aren't they?

i5 3570k
8gb 1600mhz ram

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