Help with setting 2 HDD

[lubosblacksmyth]

Yesterday i have bought new firecuda 1TB because i was warried about my 5 years old hdd 500GB Baracuda he is not at all fast with loading OS/games...(only 80mb/s WR), yeah i now SSHD arent that great either but even 30 or 40% improvement is enought for gaming, os loading and so on. So i migrated my os(c drive) to new disk successfully, then i copied D partion to new disk. In bios I set up Sata 0 to be my primal booting disk(witch is my new firecude).

And my questions is how to set hdd to load games from new firecuda disk(so do not load from old D but from the H: copy od D)
Thank you.

 

[aquielisunari]

Yesterday i have bought new firecuda 1TB because i was warried about my 5 years old hdd 500GB Baracuda he is not at all fast with loading OS/games...(only 80mb/s WR), yeah i now SSHD arent that great either but even 30 or 40% improvement is enought for gaming, os loading and so on. So i migrated my os(c drive) to new disk successfully, then i copied D partion to new disk. In bios I set up Sata 0 to be my primal booting disk(witch is my new firecude).

And my questions is how to set hdd to load games from new firecuda disk(so do not load from old D but from the H: copy od D)
Thank you.

That's up to your gaming client. I have backups of my gaming library so I have the same game on multiple drives. I just need to make sure I tell the client where to go for the game. Clients like Steam, Origin and Uplay will ask the user where they want the game to be installed. That's where it will access the files. Let's assume I made some changes. Within Steam I would right-click the game, click on Properties, click on Local Files and then I would click on Move Install Folder.

That way Steam knows not to access the old file anymore after that change. Each client has their own way of dealing with that type of change.

 

[USAFRet]

Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

To move an already installed game
Games library
Right click the game
Properties
Local Files
Move Install Folder



For other things:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1 & 10: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

 

[lubosblacksmyth]

A have copy of the games on my new HDD, so I just set that drive as defaut for playing games in Steam. Is there something global where to set up HDD as main for whole windows? Like to load only from that one, save thing on that one. In worst case I can unplug the old one 😀

 

[USAFRet]

A have copy of the games on my new HDD, so I just set that drive as defaut for playing games in Steam. Is there something global where to set up HDD as main for whole windows? Like to load only from that one, save thing on that one. In worst case I can unplug the old one 😀

No, there is no 'global' setting, to have 'everything' go to a drive other than the OS drive.
Nor do you want to.

Many things you DO want on the OS drive. And given a large one, ALL of your applications go on it.

The default location is the C drive. If you want to change that for a particular application, you do that while you are installing that application.
For other things, see the links above.