Extra HDD installed. How to get it working?

[paul64brown]

I've installed an extra 500gb hard drive to boost the puny 32gb that the laptop came with. If I transfer all the files and change the letter, can I get the laptop to use it instead of the current c: drive? Can't be that simple can it?

 

[Barty1884]

No, it's not *that* simple.

You'd need to clone the 32GB drive to the 500GB drive to make it bootable, or reinstall your OS to the 500GB.

What laptop are you talking about, specifically? 32GB is really small....

 

[paul64brown]

It's a cheap Fusion5 Windows 10 Notebook PC, T95 Pro Model, 1920*1080 IPS, Intel Quad-Core, 2GB RAM, https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07DH97WL1/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 bought for my wife to play bubble witch saga :/ I got a free 500 gb hdd with it to increase capacity. As you can tell, I don't know much about it, but I have installed it and it's showing up in disk manager. I thought running the system off it would improve performance.

 

[Barty1884]

It might, it might not.

32GB is probably a very small, cheap SSD.

Even a cheap, lower performance SSD is likely going to be faster/snappier than any mechanical HDD.

BUT, 32GB is really small. As I mentioned, you'd need to either clone the SSD to the HDD, or just clean install the OS onto the HDD.

Given 32GB of storage, there's probably not a lot of data work cloning. I'd backup what you can, install the OS to the HDD and format the SSD.

You can create Windows 10 installation media here:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-ca/software-download/windows10

You will need a 4+GB USB flash drive though.

 

[paul64brown]

Thanks for your help. I'll give it a go.

 

[omegadoom13]

It's a cheap Fusion5 Windows 10 Notebook PC, T95 Pro Model, 1920*1080 IPS, Intel Quad-Core, 2GB RAM, https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07DH97WL1/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o03_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1 bought for my wife to play bubble witch saga :/ I got a free 500 gb hdd with it to increase capacity. As you can tell, I don't know much about it, but I have installed it and it's showing up in disk manager. I thought running the system off it would improve performance.

https://laptoping.com/laptop-pc-storage-explained-hdd-ssd-hybrid-emmc.html

Your laptop has 2GB RAM so running multiple programs/tabs/multitasking will be a slog-fest. Maybe installing an SSD over HDD would improve laptop performance...