My friend made a mistake and installed windows 10 on his SSD and since this is the main drive, everything installs there. We even tried to go to the settings to set everything to download to the HDD, but with no luck. So, is there any way we can uninstall Windows 10 off of a SSD and reinstall it on a HDD and keep the files?
How to uninstall Windows 10 off of a SSD and reinstall it on a HDD
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With windows 10 you can easily move the Users folders (MyDocuments, Downloads, Music, Videos, etc.) to the HDD while still having the SSD for the windows boot drive. This is usually the setup people with SSDs select. That will have downloads default to the hard drive. If this suits your needs Google "move users folder to another drive" to get the instructions.
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I do not recommend moving the OS to the HDD. The point of the SSD is to put the OS on it and make everything run faster. Ill teach you how to have everything save to the HDD by default. For example, you want everything that saves in the documents folder to save on the HDD.
Right click on the documents folder and click Properties. Then click the location tab and click "Move". Then create a Documents folder on the HDD and select that folder as the destination. It will move all of the documents to that folder and save them there by default.
Right click on the documents folder and click Properties. Then click the location tab and click "Move". Then create a Documents folder on the HDD and select that folder as the destination. It will move all of the documents to that folder and save them there by default.
Why on earth would you want to put windows on the HDD for? It is better for say MS Word to take 2 seconds to launch the program and 2 seconds to open the file then take 12 seconds to launch the program and .5 seconds to open the file
The entire point of the SSD is to make windows and programs run faster, which it cant do if windows is on a HDD.
You should be offloading all of your personal files as well as your downloads folder to the HDD.
How small is your SSD?
The entire point of the SSD is to make windows and programs run faster, which it cant do if windows is on a HDD.
You should be offloading all of your personal files as well as your downloads folder to the HDD.
How small is your SSD?
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You don't put the OS on the HDD. That is a total waste of the SSD.
For how to manage where things go, this was written just 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
(pay attention to the versions. It makes a difference)
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