How to make my ssd the primary drive ?

phil001 · May 3, 2015

So i build my pc around november and after about 2 months i bought an ssd. I installed it and everything i put the os on it and everything was smooth for like a minute. After doing all that i tried opening up counter strike and it said some bs i cant remember (this is when i booted up with my ssd) then i boot up with my hdd and everything is working. So i just then formatted it and put win 10 preview on as an alternative drive just to see how win 10 was.

Now after a few months of having my ssd storage started running out and i wanted to actually use it as i didnt really care so much up until now.

So my question is how when u buy a ssd but u already have a hdd, how can u make that ssd be ur primary drive and then when u boot up with it all the programs work even if the programs are installed on the hdd and if this is possible.

Thank you so very much for any help.

FairladyZ · May 3, 2015

Making an SSD the primary drives (unless your PC is all-SSD's and no disk storage) is stupid. In my opinion, the SSD as of now, is only good for storing the OS and important files. And making an SSD the primary drive will cause programs to want to install to it, and if you're like me, and spam the "Next" button on installers, your SSD will fill up very quickly. Disk storage is fast enough for most tasks. What you can do, however, is go into the menu that lists your drives and move the SSD a letter higher than the hard disk. Example:

HDD :C

SSD (any letter below C)

Move the SSD to the letter above "C", which would be "B". Or swap the places of the drives.