Installing another SSD to double my C: drive capacity

[deanhitchcock]

Hi All,

Been a while since i did anything with my hdd and i am out of touch with how to perform everything associated, so seek support!

I have a Kingston 64gb SSD with windows 7 64 OS on it. It is now filled 100% and struggling to do anything with it. I need more room. I also have a 1tb HDD for all the documents, photos, videos etc... to store on, an external 1tb which i back up all the 1tb HDD onto, and i also have another OCZ Agility 64gb SSD that is currently empty (installed into PC and then moved house and never actually did anything with it until i got PC out this week 18months later!! criminal)

Can i add the 2 x 64gb SSD's together to make one big SSD drive? If i can is there a link to an idiots guide to help me?

Secondly, how do i stop programs like Itunes, TomTom, Mopzilla, AVG, SPyware Blaster, Nikon, Office etc... installing onto my SSD, and install them onto the 1tb HDD?

Thanks very much in advance, i appreciate i'm asking a lot here!

 

[USAFRet]

1. To see one larger C drive, you would build a RAID 0. This will entail a full reinstall of everything. And is generally not recommended with SSD's.
If you need "an idiots guide", don't do that.

Recommendation: Just add the second SSD as its own drive. No need to try to make a larger "C".

2. To put things on the HDD instead of the SSD, see these:
Win 7 & 8: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-1834397/ssd-redirecting-static-files.html
Win 8.1: http://www.tomshardware.com/faq/id-2024314/windows-redirecting-folders-drives.html

 

[photonboy]

YES.

However, it would cost you almost as much as a 120GB SSD for $60 or this 128GB Sandisk for $65:
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sandisk-internal-hard-drive-sdssdhp128gg25

You can find 60GB SSD's for $45 but I don't see the point. You'd have to RAID0 your drives which isn't as reliable. There is a V200 64GB Kingston listed but it's $53 when the V300 120GB model is $60!!

The 240GB, V300 is only $100.

Installation:
1) Install the 2nd SSD
2) Go to Disk Management and add it (this step MAY not be necessary if you can see it in step #3)

3) Use a cloning program like Macrium Reflect http://www.macrium.com/reflectfree.aspx
4) after cloning, SHUT DOWN, remove the 60GB SSD, then boot up and make sure everything works.
5) if boot fails (no OS or whatever) go into the BIOS and make sure the boot order has the correct drive selected

Other:
*Cleaning up space for now:
1. Disable HIBERNATION (google for how)
2. Change Pagefile to max and min of 2GB
3. Disable SYSTEM RESTORE
4. run Disk cleanup.