Installing Windows 8 on two harddrives and booting up?

[TaskinRahman]

Hello,

I recently built my first gaming computer and installed Windows 8 on both of my harddrives (a Samsung 840 (250 GB) SSD and a 1 TB Western Digital ).

That is correct right? I need to install operating systems on both harddrives in order to use it?

After doing that, whenever I boot up, Windows asked me which volume (?) is the default one and I made my SSD (Volume 2 ) the default start up. I did this because my SSD has all of my important applications installed on it whereas my regular HD just stores data like my videos.

Is there a way to make it so that it does not even take 5 seconds for Windows at start up to go directly to my SSD? I don't even want that brief opportunity to choose to go to the other harddrive.

i hope my question makes sense and I was able to articulate what I am seeing on my screen. Thanks for the help.

 

[mactronix]

You should have only installed the OS onto the SSD drive. Its asking you which to use as you now have 2 separate operating systems on your PC.
The Standard HD needs no OS as its just going to be used for storage.

Mactronix

 

[TaskinRahman]

You should have only installed the OS onto the SSD drive. Its asking you which to use as you now have 2 separate operating systems on your PC.
The Standard HD needs no OS as its just going to be used for storage.

Mactronix

Thanks. This makes sense. Should I bother fixing it and uninstalling the OS from the standard HD? Are there any advantages in speed or optimization? Currently I just installed my web browser (chrome) and store my HD videos on the 1 TB standard HD.

 

[mactronix]

Yes I would uninstall it if I was you.
Only install things you use often or that would benefit from the speed the SSD brings.
Its fine to install other things on the HD, it will be treated like a storage extension basically.

Mactronix