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SSD and HDD help please?

a1ph4w01f91
Level 7

‎03-01-2013 05:40 AM - last edited on ‎03-06-2024 09:51 PM by Community Admin

Here's the deal. When I set my rig up I installed Windows 8 to my 120gb Samsung SSD. Everything I have installed since then has been to that SSD. I know have finally received my WD 1TB HDD and want to make my SSD strictly my boot drive and have everything else running off my new TB drive. I can change the location of my Libraries without any issues, and copy folders over from one drive to the other, but I'm having issues redirecting everything else.

So I guess the root question is how can you achieve having the SSD as the boot drive only and then have everything else on the HDD? I mean have the actual file locations redirected to the HDD and not just copied. I have looked all over the place and people just discuss the benefits and registry edits that may or may not work. Generally I can handle this stuff myself but I'm a little on the confused side now.
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TFCC
Level 7

‎03-01-2013 10:42 AM

Been a while since I've used Windows but the easiest (and most effective) way would be to create symbolic links to folders on your HDD at the original location of the folders on your SSD. From the Windows command line you can use the mklink command, there are many tutorials a short google away.
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TenBlade
Level 11

‎03-01-2013 11:10 AM

And you can avoid otherwise mandatorily C-drive bound programs to take up valuable space on your SSD, remember they like to have some free room to keep functioning at top speed. There´s a thread on the how-to here, http://rog.asus.com/forum/showthread.php?27134-How-to-prevent-default-installations-on-C-drive
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sectionate
Level 12

‎03-01-2013 12:35 PM

redirecting your temp files to another drive will speed things up for you
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TenBlade
Level 11

‎03-01-2013 01:51 PM

plus redirect temp. Noted! Thx 🙂
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HiVizMan
Level 40

‎03-05-2013 05:39 AM

Our very own Chino

It's pretty easy to change the default installation path via the registry.

1. Launch Registry Editor.
2. Navigate to HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\Curr entVersion
3. You'll see a value named ProgramFilesDir.
4. Double click it and change it to the location you want.

Note: For 64 bit users, you'll see ProgramFilesDir and ProgramFilesDir x86. Change both of them.
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a1ph4w01f91
Level 7
In response to HiVizMan

‎03-06-2013 08:17 PM

Thanks for all the replies guys. I got it all figured out and am good to go. HiVizMan/Chino you the men!
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