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So I just finished building my first PC last night, and I have a small SSD with a 2tb HDD. I already installed all of the stuff that I wanmt to on my SSD, so how do I set up the big hard drive now so that everything else like steam games will install to that? When I go into the documents of my computer and go to the pc storage, then I can only see the SSD, but if I go to device manager, then I can see my 2tb hard drive and that it's working. Anyone know how to set this up?

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You probably need to format the drive. Search "create and format hard disk partitions" in windows and then click the drive and format it.

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For steam, you just need to make a new folder on the hard drive and you can use that as a drive for steam

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27 minutes ago, DocSwag said:

You probably need to format the drive. Search "create and format hard disk partitions" in windows and then click the drive and format it.

I can see it in the place you were saying to go and I can click it, but I don't see an option to format it

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10 minutes ago, TaylorDean16 said:

I can see it in the place you were saying to go and I can click it, but I don't see an option to format it

right click. What options do you get. There should be a creat basic partition option. Screenshot?

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10 minutes ago, Electronics Wizardy said:

right click. What options do you get. There should be a creat basic partition option. Screenshot?

I got it, thank you!

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