How to set up secondary drive for storage?

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
C

chainers

Honorable
May 10, 2013
160
0
10,710
Hello all,

My old hard drive recently broke, and I decided to replace it with a 275g SSD and a 1THD, with the SSD holding my applications and the HD holding my older games, movies, and so forth.

I have been looking online and am a bit confused on how I set up my secondary drive. I understand that I need to partition my second drive to use it, but most guides end there. Is it that easy to go through and do, or do I need to split the drive a certain amount/install some other software on it?

Thanks!
 
Solution
USAFRet
You just need to make one big partition. Do NOT split it into different partitions for each purpose (games, movies, etc)
Just one big partition.

See this for how to manage where stuff goes

Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

Steam games:
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder
5RXQa0Y.jpg


Sort by date Sort by votes
why_wolf

why_wolf

Splendid
Aug 28, 2015
3,531
25
26,940
you just partition it and then its good to go as drive. No other steps are required. You can divide it into several partitions if you want but frankly I see no reason to do that.

Now when you install programs and stuff you just have to remember to install them to the 2nd drive (D) instead of the default (C) drive.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
USAFRet

USAFRet

Titan
Moderator
Mar 16, 2013
171,418
17,885
184,590
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom