Gettin an SSD Soon

[JoshK]

I currently just have a 1tb WD Blue hdd and Ive used 592 gbs of it. I plan on getting the 500 gb Samsung 850 evo soon. I want to have my OS, steam, skyrim, fallout 4, and my adobe programs  as well as nexus mod manager on the ssd. Other than that, all of my photos, the rest of my games and spotify can get put on the HDD. Can someone point me to a guide to help me do this? I plan on doing a clean install of windows 10 from a flash drive. 

[Shimejii]

You dont need a guide lol. Just Install the OS, If you have a Desktop plug it into another sata connection, if not get a USB to Sata connection (like an external hdd plug) And Drag the folders you want on.

[W-L]

I currently just have a 1tb WD Blue hdd and Ive used 592 gbs of it. I plan on getting the 500 gb Samsung 850 evo soon. I want to have my OS, steam, skyrim, fallout 4, and my adobe programs  as well as nexus mod manager on the ssd. Other than that, all of my photos, the rest of my games and spotify can get put on the HDD. Can someone point me to a guide to help me do this? I plan on doing a clean install of windows 10 from a flash drive. 

 

For game on the most part you don't get much benefit on an SSD other than load times, having it on your HDD is usually not a problem for them. This is a fairly simple process where you basically have the original download folders or picture folder from windows and you can relocate where the save folder is so that your stuff automatically saves to the HDD. Similar for games where you can change the save location.

[JoshK]

You dont need a guide lol. Just Install the OS, If you have a Desktop plug it into another sata connection, if not get a USB to Sata connection (like an external hdd plug) And Drag the folders you want on.

you literally drag folders? From program files?

[JoshK]

For game on the most part you don't get much benefit on an SSD other than load times, having it on your HDD is usually not a problem for them. This is a fairly simple process where you basically have the original download folders or picture folder from windows and you can relocate where the save folder is so that your stuff automatically saves to the HDD. Similar for games where you can change the save location.

Yeah I know its for load times that why I want specifically those two games on the SSD

[Shimejii]

Yeah I know its for load times that why I want specifically those two games on the SSD

BTW Load times for fallout 4 are the games problem not from HDD though it may help a bit, its realllly bad with loading screens due to the old engine its running on.

[Shimejii]

you literally drag folders? From program files?

and yush

[JoshK]

BTW Load times for fallout 4 are the games problem not from HDD though it may help a bit, its realllly bad with loading screens due to the old engine its running on.

Ohhhh okay that makes more sense. I have way too many mods on skyrim and load screens are hell haha. Maybe I will leave fallout on the HDD

[JoshK]

and yush

from x86 or both? And it will work fine if I have two different program files folders, one on the SSD and one on the HDD?

[Shimejii]

from x86 or both? And it will work fine if I have two different program files folders, one on the SSD and one on the HDD?

it would prefer if it was only in one location to not confuse it, so if you have an HDD And an SSD on a system, and they are both the same, theres a chance it could be confused, but if you properly direct it to the folders it should be fine