[SOLVED] Trouble installing/configuring SSD

[primsd2]

Some things I need to let you all know
- I have poor knowledge of how to deal with this kind of stuff. Please bear with me lol.
- I have no CD drive
- I already have a 1TB HDD with windows 10 and games etc installed onto it.

I just bought a 250gb Samsung SSD, its all installed. I have intitialised it in disk configuration and it is known as disk 0 I believe. It appears in my BIOS as well. I am just curious at how I am supposed to install windows 10 onto the SSD, then 1 or 2 games, and leave the rest of my files alongside in the HDD as additional storage as they are now. I'm only really interested in a faster boot time and startup time for my commonly used programs, as you'd expect.

Note - I also don't have windows 10 on a USB stick to post or whatever its called... my friend had that.

 

[USAFRet]

First off, you need a Windows 10 USB stick.

Either get it back from your friend, or make a new one yourself.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10


Once you have that, disconnect all drives except the new SSD.
And.... How to do a CLEAN installation of Windows 10

 

[primsd2]

First off, you need a Windows 10 USB stick.

Either get it back from your friend, or make a new one yourself.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10


Once you have that, disconnect all drives except the new SSD.
And.... How to do a CLEAN installation of Windows 10

So I would just install this tool onto one of my own USB sticks?

 

[USAFRet]

First off, you need a Windows 10 USB stick.

Either get it back from your friend, or make a new one yourself.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10


Once you have that, disconnect all drives except the new SSD.
And.... How to do a CLEAN installation of Windows 10

So I would just install this tool onto one of my own USB sticks?

You download the MediaCreation tool to your current PC.
Then you run that to create the USB stick install.
Then...you take all the other drives out of the system, and follow the steps in the above link to install the OS on the SSD.

What happens after that with your old HDD gets a teeny bit more complex, but we can work with it.

 

[primsd2]

First off, you need a Windows 10 USB stick.

Either get it back from your friend, or make a new one yourself.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10


Once you have that, disconnect all drives except the new SSD.
And.... How to do a CLEAN installation of Windows 10

So I would just install this tool onto one of my own USB sticks?

You download the MediaCreation tool to your current PC.
Then you run that to create the USB stick install.
Then...you take all the other drives out of the system, and follow the steps in the above link to install the OS on the SSD.

What happens after that with your old HDD gets a teeny bit more complex, but we can work with it.

Ok. Now on 'Creating Windows 10 Media'. Just letting you know the USB stick I used wasnt fully empty, had some useless old biology stuff on there from school. Will that be an issue, or will it just get overwritten?

 

[USAFRet]

Ok. Now on 'Creating Windows 10 Media'. Just letting you know the USB stick I used wasnt fully empty, had some useless old biology stuff on there from school. Will that be an issue, or will it just get overwritten?

It will be completely overwritten.

 

[primsd2]

Ok. Now on 'Creating Windows 10 Media'. Just letting you know the USB stick I used wasnt fully empty, had some useless old biology stuff on there from school. Will that be an issue, or will it just get overwritten?

It will be completely overwritten.

USB stick is in. Usual startup occurs, however it keeps taking me to the BIOS. Only thing in the boot priority is my SSD as I disconnected my HDD. Nothing else happens.

 

[USAFRet]

Ok. Now on 'Creating Windows 10 Media'. Just letting you know the USB stick I used wasnt fully empty, had some useless old biology stuff on there from school. Will that be an issue, or will it just get overwritten?

It will be completely overwritten.

USB stick is in. Usual startup occurs, however it keeps taking me to the BIOS. Only thing in the boot priority is my SSD as I disconnected my HDD. Nothing else happens.

The USB needs to be in that boot order. There is nothing on the SSD to boot from.

 

[primsd2]

Ok. Now on 'Creating Windows 10 Media'. Just letting you know the USB stick I used wasnt fully empty, had some useless old biology stuff on there from school. Will that be an issue, or will it just get overwritten?

It will be completely overwritten.

USB stick is in. Usual startup occurs, however it keeps taking me to the BIOS. Only thing in the boot priority is my SSD as I disconnected my HDD. Nothing else happens.

The USB needs to be in that boot order. There is nothing on the SSD to boot from.

Never mind. Just did something stupid and took it out then put it in midway through posting like an idiot. Like I said, not very in touch with this stuff ahaha. I’m now on the installation menu for windows 10

 

[primsd2]

Ok. Now on 'Creating Windows 10 Media'. Just letting you know the USB stick I used wasnt fully empty, had some useless old biology stuff on there from school. Will that be an issue, or will it just get overwritten?

It will be completely overwritten.

USB stick is in. Usual startup occurs, however it keeps taking me to the BIOS. Only thing in the boot priority is my SSD as I disconnected my HDD. Nothing else happens.

The USB needs to be in that boot order. There is nothing on the SSD to boot from.

Ok. I now have windows installed on my SSD. How do I get about having my HDD alongside it as a storage unit for less used programs ?

 

[USAFRet]

Ok. I now have windows installed on my SSD. How do I get about having my HDD alongside it as a storage unit for less used programs ?

First off, is there anything on the old HDD that you need to keep?

 

[primsd2]

Ok. I now have windows installed on my SSD. How do I get about having my HDD alongside it as a storage unit for less used programs ?

First off, is there anything on the old HDD that you need to keep?

No, nothing at all.

 

[USAFRet]

No, nothing at all.

OK.
Now that we have the system fully running from the SSD, we can wipe the HDD completely.

The fastest way is through the diskpart function in the commandline, and its clean function.

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10-a.html

Be absolutely sure of which physical drive you are referencing. There is no return of any data if you do this on the wrong drive.

Once it is fully wiped, reformatted, and given a new drive letter of your choosing, you can use it as desired.

Install new application to it, have it for some Steam games, movie/music storage, etc, etc

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

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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

 

[primsd2]

No, nothing at all.

OK.
Now that we have the system fully running from the SSD, we can wipe the HDD completely.

The fastest way is through the diskpart function in the commandline, and its clean function.

http://knowledge.seagate.com/articles/en_US/FAQ/005929en
https://www.windowscentral.com/how-clean-and-format-storage-drive-using-diskpart-windows-10
https://www.tenforums.com/tutorials/85819-erase-disk-using-diskpart-clean-command-windows-10-a.html

Be absolutely sure of which physical drive you are referencing. There is no return of any data if you do this on the wrong drive.

Once it is fully wiped, reformatted, and given a new drive letter of your choosing, you can use it as desired.

Install new application to it, have it for some Steam games, movie/music storage, etc, etc

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

---------------------------------------------------
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

So I assume I now reconnect my HDD and start my PC as usual?

 

[USAFRet]

So I assume I now reconnect my HDD and start my PC as usual?

Verify the boot order, so that the new SSD is above the HDD.
But yes.