How do i make my 2nd hdd for storage?

[kingmee]

Hi all, hopefully I've posted this in the correct category. If not , i apologize and please kindly let me know. So i just built my first computer for gaming last night. Everything is perfect and up to date and things are running smoothly. I have a 250gb ssd as my primary drive and i would like to use my 2nd drive which is a 1tb hdd as my storage. I only want to use the ssd for my os. Can anyone please help me to do this ?
The 2 drives are Samsung 850 EVO 250gb
Western Digital Black 1tb.
Thank you very much!

 

[SkyNetRising]

What seems to be the problem?
Just move all your media files to HDD, and when you install games, specify that they must be located on HDD also.

 

[Colif]

You can also relocate the libraries (music, pictures, videos) onto the other drive.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/windows7/customize-a-library

 

[Math Geek]

once the ssd is running, plug in the hdd and start moving all your data to it. that's all. i set the download folder to the data drive and basically don't use the my documents folder for anything. it can be moved as well but wasn't worth the effort for me. most every program let's you set where it's data should go and i just set it to me data drive instead of my docs folder.

not that hard really, just watch where everything wants to go and be sure it is wher you want it to go.

 

[kingmee]

I didn't mean to click select as best answer lol. The problem is that when i move files they only copy and not actually move

 

[Colif]

Set steam library up on 2nd hdd (lol, I have a 850gb partition just for music, its so empty). 2nd hdd makes it so much faster to recover from reinstalling win 10.. clean install, don't lose anything, redirect libraries to already full folders.

I had a problem last year where win 10 didn't let me save anything to my documents so i have sort of ignored it ever since, using other folders it wasn't protecting. That was before Onedrive was fixed though.

 

[Colif]

what kind of files are you moving?

 

[kingmee]

I don't want to copy files , unless that's what i have to do to transfer files. In my specific situation, WoW was installing , while installing i paused it and tried to make the go to my new drive. It only did a copying process

 

[Colif]

that won't work, you need to stop install and retry it and make sure its directed to hdd, not ssd, before it starts.

 

[kingmee]

I'm currently at work and woW is installing in my house .
When it's done installing , can i safely move it without the issue that i just ran into ?

 

[Colif]

seems wow is one of few games without a registry entry, so yes, just copy folder over

http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/11763817065 << this just confirms you can.

In most cases that method doesn't work, so make sure to redirect to avoid problems

 

[Math Geek]

normally when installing something, it will ask where you want it to go. be sure to point it to the hdd and not the ssd. you will need to slow down and not just click through the installer screens like you used to do

read the screens showing up until it asks where to put it. then point it to the hdd. most programs can't just be moved as it will not work that way. you got lucky with wow but won't in most other cases.

 

[kingmee]

So to be 100% clear , i go home to my installed WoW , update it , copy entire folder and then delete the one on my ssd. Right ?

 

[kingmee]

To be honest , i really need a new mouse. It double clicks sometimes so fast i don't see some options. I need to replace this razer naga mouse

 

[Math Geek]

you don't even have to sopy and then delete. if you right click the folder and select "cut" this moves the folder and not just copies it.

this way it is one step as it deletes as it copies it to the other drive.

 

[Colif]

That should work, i would copy first, make sure the copy works and then delete other on ssd, to save time. Also need to change the shortcut in the loader or just drag a new loader onto desktop.

i thought about suggesting cut.,..

 

[Math Geek]

i'd also prefer to copy, verify and then delete but i answered the question he asked

forgot about the loader, that will have to be changed or recreated as well. on first try to open it, you can redirect it to the new location easy enough

 

[Colif]

i just like to play it safe, wow probably takes ages to dl now (I stopped playing it 10 years ago), I assume its massive now.

 

[Math Geek]

i recently did a fresh install of a laptop and agreed to install wow for my friend since he has slow net speeds. the base install was 30 gb!! no idea how much more it could be with expansion packs and whatever else. but the first installer was 30 GB. would have taken days for my friend but for me it was maybe 20 minutes. don't recall exactly as i moved on to other stuff but it was done when i went back after about 20 mins.

 

[kingmee]

Thank you ll for the answers. It was all truly very informative. I appreciate you all! Have a great day.

 

[Colif]

Seems its about 55gb now. I am only on 80Mbit so it would take an hour or so... before I had this plan I was on 1.92Mbit, wow would have taken a week to dl.