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Yes, if you open Disk Management and format the drive it will be useable in Windows.  Don't panic if it doesn't show up immediately.

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so i have an ssd and i just bougt an hdd and i was wondering if i could have files stored on my hdd accessable on my desktop like my current ssd

 

 

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did you mean this?

 

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

 

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-sg/windows/redirect-folder-new-location

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Yes, if you open Disk Management and format the drive it will be useable in Windows.  Don't panic if it doesn't show up immediately.

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so i have an ssd and i just bougt an hdd and i was wondering if i could have files stored on my hdd accessable on my desktop like my current ssd

 

Hey Cactusneedle_18,
 
As the guys pointed out, you can have more than one storage drive (regardless if it's a HDD, SSD, mSATA, M.2, flash card, Thumb Drive, etc.) on your computer at the same time. You simply must plug in the drive, open disk management, initialize it, format it and assign it a latter. :) You are free to install programs and games on more than one drive and use them freely. What drive did you get?
 
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Well I actually pulled a 500Gb HDD out of my old laptop and I just wiped it, also how do you change the letter assigned to the drive.

 

 

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Well I actually pulled a 500Gb HDD out of my old laptop and I just wiped it, also how do you change the letter assigned to the drive.

 

Go to Disk Management and right click on the specific drive. You will see a number of options and should see it there :)

 

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Go to Disk Management and right click on the specific drive. You will see a number of options and should see it there :)

 

Captain_WD.

Thank you

 

 

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