Having problems with my double storage set up

[alexbeast]

I just got a new custom built computer and installed windows 10 on the SSD. When I try to download games on my 1 TB the ssd doesnt recognize the HD. I was told by the computer shop that it should automatically sync when I install windows on the SSD. I have very minimal knowledge about this type of stuff so any help would be great !. Also what driver would I download if I wanted to turn on the fans that came with my case? the chipset download is saying that my version of windows 10 is not supported by this driver then though I have windows 10 64bit and chose the option for windows 10 64bit in the drop down menu.

Motherboard- Z1070-A intel
GPU geforce gtx 1070 8gb
Intel i.7 4700k
750w psu
16gb ddr4 ram
250gb samsung evo 850 SSD
Black 1tb hard drive

 

[elbert]

How are the games downlaoded? Steam or other?

 

[rgd1101]

Do the drive show up in windows explorer? disk management? device manager?

 

[alexbeast]

How are the games downlaoded? Steam or other?

for now trying to download games on steam

 

[alexbeast]

Do the drive show up in windows explorer? disk management? device manager?

it does show up in device manager and in terms of explorer I cant find the drive when i try to save something

 

[elbert]

How are the games downlaoded? Steam or other?

for now trying to download games on steam

You may need to activate the drive in disk manager.

Ok basically if you want your steam games installed on your HD. You can install steam on your SSD and then link to your HD. Click the start button and type CMD in search. At the top cmd will show so right click it and turn as admin. You may want to create a directory tree just like on C:. At the command prompt you want to create a mklink with this command. This creates a link to your HD if its D:.

mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\" "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\"

You can adjust the D drive directory how ever you want as that is where you games will be stored on you HD.

 

[rgd1101]

Do the drive show up in windows explorer? disk management? device manager?

it does show up in device manager and in terms of explorer I cant find the drive when i try to save something

What about disk management? is this a new drive? you might need to format and/or assign a drive letter

 

[alexbeast]

Do the drive show up in windows explorer? disk management? device manager?

How are the games downlaoded? Steam or other?

for now trying to download games on steam

You may need to activate the drive in disk manager.

Ok basically if you want your steam games installed on your HD. You can install steam on your SSD and then link to your HD. Click the start button and type CMD. At the top cmd will show and right click it and turn as admin. You may want to create a directory tree just like on C:. At the command prompt you want to create a mklink with this command. This creates a link to your HD if its D:.

mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\" "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\"

You can adjust the D drive directory how ever you want as that is where you games will be stored on you HD.

says local volumes are required to complete the operation

 

[mjslakeridge]

In device manager, disk drives, right click on the HDD and then hit properites, and go to volumes and hit the populate button near the bottom. What shows up? Sounds to me like the HDD has not been initialized, and thus not seen in windows explorer.

 

[elbert]

Do the drive show up in windows explorer? disk management? device manager?

How are the games downlaoded? Steam or other?

for now trying to download games on steam

You may need to activate the drive in disk manager.

Ok basically if you want your steam games installed on your HD. You can install steam on your SSD and then link to your HD. Click the start button and type CMD. At the top cmd will show and right click it and turn as admin. You may want to create a directory tree just like on C:. At the command prompt you want to create a mklink with this command. This creates a link to your HD if its D:.

mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\" "D:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\"

You can adjust the D drive directory how ever you want as that is where you games will be stored on you HD.

says local volumes are required to complete the operation

Did you install steam first and is the HD D:?

 

[alexbeast]

Do the drive show up in windows explorer? disk management? device manager?

it does show up in device manager and in terms of explorer I cant find the drive when i try to save something

What about disk management? is this a new drive? you might need to format and/or assign a drive letter

In device manager, disk drives, right click on the HDD and then hit properites, and go to volumes and hit the populate button near the bottom. What shows up? Sounds to me like the HDD has not been initialized, and thus not seen in windows explorer.

says https://gyazo.com/67580220544d32ed51fce8ee487d9b2e

 

[mjslakeridge]

Per your gyazo link: "Not initialized". That is your problem.

See this Tom's thread:

http://www.tomshardware.com/answers/id-2955309/initialize-hard-drive-windows.html

 

[alexbeast]

Per your gyazo link: "Not initialized". That is your problem.

how would I do this? again not very good with this kind of stuff sorry.

 

[mjslakeridge]

See the link I added when I edited my last post.

Edit: Here is a link to a YouTube video someone put together re: initializing a HDD in Windows 10 if you learn better by watching rather than reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV6IcNvbek

 

[alexbeast]

See the link I added when I edited my last post.

Edit: Here is a link to a YouTube video someone put together re: initializing a HDD in Windows 10 if you learn better by watching rather than reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV6IcNvbek

perfect this worked thanks so much !

 

[alexbeast]

See the link I added when I edited my last post.

Edit: Here is a link to a YouTube video someone put together re: initializing a HDD in Windows 10 if you learn better by watching rather than reading:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxV6IcNvbek

I am having a problem now to install games off steam to the drive. It says i cant make a new folder because it is just a readable drive and the file must be writeable

 

[mjslakeridge]

Great! Glad to help. I found that out myself some years ago that newly purchased HDD's aren't ready to go right out of the box.

 

[alexbeast]

Great! Glad to help. I found that out myself some years ago that newly purchased HDD's aren't ready to go right out of the box.

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please check out my previous post im having issues now!

 

[alexbeast]

Great! Glad to help. I found that out myself some years ago that newly purchased HDD's aren't ready to go right out of the box.

nvm I figured it out all is good