Locking my drive for programs

Betahuman · December 10, 2018

I have Windows installed in a 120GB SSD and initially wanted to keep it like that. But there are some (older) programs where I can't change the installation path to my other HDD's. Is there any way to lock my Windows SSD for programs, but not for Windows updates and drivers and the necessary stuff?

tzxazrael · December 10, 2018

probably not, and if there is, it's going to be ridiculously esoteric and arcane. even for programs installed "on other drives", sometimes they require some, or a lot, of data put on your primary drive. eg; i once forced Office to install on a secondary drive, and the total install size seemed to go up by like 50% due to data being installed on both the secondary and main drive.

500gb SSD or M.2 is pretty cheap these days. install all your programs to C, and put all your games/movies/etc on your other drives. save the 120gb drive for a couple of "important" games that you want to run as fast as possible.

Betahuman · December 12, 2018

On 12/10/2018 at 11:27 PM, tzxazrael said:

probably not, and if there is, it's going to be ridiculously esoteric and arcane. even for programs installed "on other drives", sometimes they require some, or a lot, of data put on your primary drive. eg; i once forced Office to install on a secondary drive, and the total install size seemed to go up by like 50% due to data being installed on both the secondary and main drive.

500gb SSD or M.2 is pretty cheap these days. install all your programs to C, and put all your games/movies/etc on your other drives. save the 120gb drive for a couple of "important" games that you want to run as fast as possible.

I was looking for some kind of fix for dudes like me who still are poor enough not to get a 500g SSD, but you're right. Thanks