Please help with drive selection

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Josh Valenti

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Hi there! I recently bought a very nice computer and it came with a 1tb hard drive + 119 Gb SSD. I figured that i would use that for current video files as i do a lot of video editing and work. It ran on windows 8 but i upgraded to 10. I then started transferring all my files from my old computer to the new one. Opened librarys - documents - paste (from external hard drive) So things started transferring and after awhile it all stopped. I then noticed that my O.S C drive was the 119 GB SSD and not the 1TB. I undid all the transfers and am trying to restart. I want to have the 1TB as the OS and C drive and have a free SSD. How can i do this?
 
That's not how you use an SSD. You use the SSD as the OS and a few programs. You move your libraries over to the HDD.
 
Ive figured that out, ive moved my documents and pictures and other librarys over to the D drive but i tried to downlaod a program and i saw my C drive go down. should i move all my program files over to the D drive to and just leave the windows files on there? I want most of my programs to download and run off my D drive. I also want my %appdata% over there to. Can you furthermore explain?
 
You'd need to uninstall and reinstall your applications, as you cannot just rip the Program Files folder from C to D.

And no you can't move the appdata folder. You technically can move the entire user folder, but you risk running into corruption issues if you do that.
 
this is a brand new computer so i have to install it all new anyways. Can i move the Program files and program files (86) on to the HHD?
 
As I said, you cannot do that. But when you install software in future, you just change the default path from C:\Program Files to D:\Program Files
 
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