Using Two Hard Drives

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Chadders101

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My 3 year old 2TB HDD is getting a little old, i fear it might start getting corrupted and lose all my weeks worth of downloads. to fix this, I have bought a second empty SSHD with the intention of putting all my valuable games and launchers onto it. I is possible to have one HDD performing basic background processes and the other SSHD allowing me to play my high powered games? More importantly, is that a good idea?

I tried just copy and pasting the custom files from one HDD to another, but when I check the HDD, its empty and no space has been used. There has to be another step which I need to take to make it work. How would i go about doing this?

Any help or advice would be awesome. Ideally, downloadable software is not what i am looking for, especially if I have to pay for it.
 
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dexxterlab97

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You can not put individual processes to different drives.

Are you sure that all disk drives are recognizable? Try recopying the files again and check again

You can put program files/games and important stuff on SSHD or make it as a boot drive while other HDD as storage
 
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Sad to hear i cant use two drives like that, ah well.

As for the failure to copy files, it seems that something went erong before, which has fixed itself now

I am, unfortunately, inexperienced with creating boot drives. I currently use WIN10 on my older drive. i would like to make my SSHD my boot drive. Do i have to download WIN10 onto that as well? I do not have access to WIN10 install media. Is there a way to transfer it from one drive to another? or do i not need it at all? Also, do i need all the programs i'm going to use on that drive as well?

 
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Use a cloning software to move windows while keeping all the data between drives

You do not need all the programs in a new drive to save space. You can still have them on HDD. However cloning will move everything so it is better to remove those prgrams later (save space) so cloning will be easier
 
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You could also just take the laziest option and just install win10 on your SSD and change the boot priority in BIOS. This would increase your boot-time drastically. In case you wanted to speed up any game (assuming that the drive is the bottleneck), you could just reinstall it on the SSD.

Keep me posted!
 
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