- Nov 21, 2017
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Explain like I'm an idiot: How do I set up two new hard drives in my computer?
I'm getting an ~240GB SSD for my OS and (a few) games, and a 1TB HDD for general storage. I know my computer has 2 SATA III ports because my mobo has a SATA express port, which to my knowledge is 2 SATA IIIs and a proprietary port (which will go unused) SATAS are backwards compatible as far as I know, so both the HDD and the SSD should be compatible from a hardware standpoint. Simply put the discs into the little stack thing, plug the SATA cables into the SATA ports on the mobo, ez pz.
What I don't understand is how to set up the discs from a software standpoint. I want the computer to boot from the SSD, but I'm not sure how to set the computer up to do that, especially since these discs don't have any file system or operating system to begin with. Do I have to set up one drive as a master and one as a slave? How do I make the file system NTFS? How do I install Win10 onto the SSD? Do I need to install Win10 onto the HDD as well so file explorer can access it? I have no idea what to do from a software / format standpoint. Walk me through it with as much detail as possible, this is my first time doing a build/upgrade and don't want to mess it up! Thanks to everyone for their help!
I'm getting an ~240GB SSD for my OS and (a few) games, and a 1TB HDD for general storage. I know my computer has 2 SATA III ports because my mobo has a SATA express port, which to my knowledge is 2 SATA IIIs and a proprietary port (which will go unused) SATAS are backwards compatible as far as I know, so both the HDD and the SSD should be compatible from a hardware standpoint. Simply put the discs into the little stack thing, plug the SATA cables into the SATA ports on the mobo, ez pz.
What I don't understand is how to set up the discs from a software standpoint. I want the computer to boot from the SSD, but I'm not sure how to set the computer up to do that, especially since these discs don't have any file system or operating system to begin with. Do I have to set up one drive as a master and one as a slave? How do I make the file system NTFS? How do I install Win10 onto the SSD? Do I need to install Win10 onto the HDD as well so file explorer can access it? I have no idea what to do from a software / format standpoint. Walk me through it with as much detail as possible, this is my first time doing a build/upgrade and don't want to mess it up! Thanks to everyone for their help!
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