Thanks for any help. I have a system I built on my own, so I have some basic skills, but I'm having trouble tackling a storage issue and was looking for some basic help.
I have a 120gb ssd with windows 7 on it that I purchased when I purchased two new gpu's about a year and a half ago. The computer had been running vista on a velociraptor. I decided to make it so that each drive could boot windows (one using seven and one using vista) but what I'm seeing is that I rarely need to boot to vista and now both of my drives are full.
I also have a 500gb back up, external drive that should be of use here I think, that was actually supposed to actively back up the two drives (that are less than 500gb total) but I never figured out how to actively back them up so the drive has just been hanging out doing nothing.
I am thinking it's time to make my ssd with windows 7 the only windows drive because I am ending up taking up a lot of space with files that are on both drives. I believe all of my games that load through Steam take up space on both drives for example. I'm thinking I can better set this up so that my ssd doesn't have to carry these other files if I only use my second drive for these files, but I don't seem to be able to set it up that with with separate windows versions on both drives. Does that sound right?
Short Version - I'm close to out of space on both drives and I want to make them more efficient so that I don't have files that seemingly need to be on both drives.
Thanks!
I have a 120gb ssd with windows 7 on it that I purchased when I purchased two new gpu's about a year and a half ago. The computer had been running vista on a velociraptor. I decided to make it so that each drive could boot windows (one using seven and one using vista) but what I'm seeing is that I rarely need to boot to vista and now both of my drives are full.
I also have a 500gb back up, external drive that should be of use here I think, that was actually supposed to actively back up the two drives (that are less than 500gb total) but I never figured out how to actively back them up so the drive has just been hanging out doing nothing.
I am thinking it's time to make my ssd with windows 7 the only windows drive because I am ending up taking up a lot of space with files that are on both drives. I believe all of my games that load through Steam take up space on both drives for example. I'm thinking I can better set this up so that my ssd doesn't have to carry these other files if I only use my second drive for these files, but I don't seem to be able to set it up that with with separate windows versions on both drives. Does that sound right?
Short Version - I'm close to out of space on both drives and I want to make them more efficient so that I don't have files that seemingly need to be on both drives.
Thanks!