Ok, so I currently have a 250gb HDD that I filled up so I ordered a 1 TB drive to give myself more space.
I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to configuring a drive besides just doing a fresh windows install..
My main questions are - When my second drive comes, I plan on getting it up and running, and moving my data files over to this drive, and then wiping the 250gb drive and leave it as my primary disk for my OS/programs.
Now, to my understanding, I will not be able to move programs to this second hard drive and expect them to work when I reinstall windows onto my other disk, is this true? Also, should I continue to install programs onto the C drive? or install them to my new drive (D)?
Sorry if this is confusing, but I've never really understood the whole multiple partition thing since if you wipe your computer clean with a fresh windows install, everything that is a program and is installed on the second drive becomes unusable, then what exactly is the point to installing to the drive that doesnt contain the windows files?
Thanks for whoever can clear this up for me!
edit - Ive also looked into getting an SSD but I would only be able to afford an 8-16gb drive, if I did buy this, what could I use it for? I assume installing windows, but then again that leads me to asking my question stated above..
I'm pretty much a noob when it comes to configuring a drive besides just doing a fresh windows install..
My main questions are - When my second drive comes, I plan on getting it up and running, and moving my data files over to this drive, and then wiping the 250gb drive and leave it as my primary disk for my OS/programs.
Now, to my understanding, I will not be able to move programs to this second hard drive and expect them to work when I reinstall windows onto my other disk, is this true? Also, should I continue to install programs onto the C drive? or install them to my new drive (D)?
Sorry if this is confusing, but I've never really understood the whole multiple partition thing since if you wipe your computer clean with a fresh windows install, everything that is a program and is installed on the second drive becomes unusable, then what exactly is the point to installing to the drive that doesnt contain the windows files?
Thanks for whoever can clear this up for me!
edit - Ive also looked into getting an SSD but I would only be able to afford an 8-16gb drive, if I did buy this, what could I use it for? I assume installing windows, but then again that leads me to asking my question stated above..