Windows 10 Setup New PC

[Steve N. Mavronis]

This weekend if my build gets completed I will be installing Windows 10 Home 64-bit. I have a 250GB SSD that will be the boot drive with programs, and a 1TB HDD for data storage.

 

I'm thinking that I only have the SSD attached during the Windows install then shutdown and attach the HDD after the fact.

 

How can I move the Windows 10 file library folders so that they are to be used on the HDD by default so that Windows recognizes that? 

 

Also my HDD didn't come with any drive select jumpers installed. Is that a problem for BIOS/Windows to see it as a secondary drive?

[VinZie]

8 minutes ago, Steve N. Mavronis said:

This weekend if my build gets completed I will be installing Windows 10 Home 64-bit. I have a 250GB SSD that will be the boot drive with programs, and a 1TB HDD for data storage.

 

I'm thinking that I only have the SSD attached during the Windows install then shutdown and attach the HDD after the fact.

 

How can I move the Windows 10 file library folders so that they are to be used on the HDD by default so that Windows recognizes that? 

 

Also my HDD didn't come with any drive select jumpers installed. Is that a problem for BIOS/Windows to see it as a secondary drive?

One thing. I recommend Windows 10 Professional. No it is not a problem if Windows sees it as a secondary drive. Also I don't get what your trying to say are you trying to put the OS on the HDD, or the SSD?

[typographie]

SATA drives don't require any jumpers to be used, setting drives as master/slave using jumpers was an ATA/IDE thing. Just plug in the SATA data cable and the power, and it should work fine. You can set the drive letter using the Windows Disk Management utility if necessary, though it should assume D:\ as long as it's the second of two disks.

 

It can be a bit tedious to move your library folders, but if you right-click the folder on your SSD and go to Properties, there should be a "Location" tab that lets you set the path for that folder. You'll need to do that for each.

[leonard_sun]

The idea of installing with just the SSD is fine. In fact it reduces mistakes as no one will ever get confused.

 

 

Don't worry about jumpers and such, the new OS and new Boards are always smart in recognizing the MBR.

[Steve N. Mavronis]

Thanks and I went brain dead and forgot the IDE vs SATA thing. I'm too old school, LOL.

[Steve N. Mavronis]

10 minutes ago, typographie said:

It can be a bit tedious to move your library folders, but if you right-click the folder on your SSD and go to Properties, there should be a "Location" tab that lets you set the path for that folder. You'll need to do that for each.

Can you move/assign the entire Users folder at once?

[typographie]

10 minutes ago, Steve N. Mavronis said:

Can you move/assign the entire Users folder at once?

Good question. Yes, somehow. To be honest I never did that myself, so I'm speaking a bit out of my league, but there's instructions here if you want to try to do it that way.

 

It is a better way to do it, because I do still have my Users folder (including the sizable AppData stuff) on my SSD.

[Steve N. Mavronis]

1 hour ago, typographie said:

Good question. Yes, somehow. To be honest I never did that myself, so I'm speaking a bit out of my league, but there's instructions here if you want to try to do it that way.

Whoa that looks a bit tricky!

[Steve N. Mavronis]

Hmm I'm reading horror stories about people moving their users folder and losing stuff and I don't want to mess with Sysprep scripting and make an unintentional serious error.

 

I think the safest way is to just go into Libraries and simply redirect each user folder (documents, pictures, music, downloads, etc.) file paths via the locations tab to a new user created folders on the second hard drive, without deleting the original users folder structure which would mess things up.