How to make hdd my main drive?

InfamousNavi · Oct 14, 2016

Hey guys, I just recently built my computer but I noticed that whenever I download something from online or anywhere it goes straight to my ssd rather than going to my hdd. I believe I configured my ssd as a boot drive in bios and I'd like to store a few games. I changed my default download location on chrome to my hdd but I want everything including the program files to go to my hdd. I have a gigabyte h170n mother board and crucial 275 ssd along with seagate 1tb hdd.

Barty1884 · Oct 14, 2016

You can map your drives (and program file folders for some) to the HDD, or you can manually select the download/installation location per specific download/program.

USAFRet · Oct 14, 2016

InfamousNavi :

This was written especially for you-
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

but I want everything including the program files to go to my hdd

Sorry, but this you do NOT want to do.

Your 275GB SSD is plenty large enough for the OS and a whole bunch of applications.
And you DO want most/all of your applications to live on the SSD. Otherwise, you're tossing away half the functionality of having it in the first place.

If there is a specific application you wish to live on the HDD, designate that during the install. Select Custom or Advanced, and you choose where it goes.
But most things you DO want on the SSD.

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