SSD - as a folder

[Random Runner]

I have a SSD 840.  Originally purchased with the intention to speed up my computer.

presently I have a 1 terabyte hd split into 2 drives: C 922GB and recovery D 8.61GB ( Dell setup).

 

From what I understand is to improve speed is to have the operating systmen on the SSD drive and make it C:drive and have the 922GB hard drive as a folder of C: drive or the D: drive.

 

It sounds easy if your starting new but how do i do that if my 922gb hard drive has 541GB of data and my D 8.61GB has 4.05GB of recovery storage?

 

Any Ideas?

 

 

 

 

[Godlygamer23]

How big is the SSD?

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

The most simple way would be to buy/borrow a external hard drive that will fit all your important data onto it and then copy everything you need to keep from your PC onto the external drive and just do a fresh install onto the SSD.

 

You can then format the 1TB drive and mount it as a folder, much like symbolic links on Linux.

[Poledancerz]

You might need a way to reinstall Windows this method, but it will allow you to keep all of your data. 

Keep in mind that on Windows Disk Management, there is a way to reassign drive letters. 

All you would need to do is change the drive letter of your hard drive from C: to something else, and then install the operating system on the SSD. 

When you install Windows on the SSD, it should automatically make it letter C, but if it doesn't this can be done manually through disk management.

So if you do those steps, you would be left with a clean OS installation on your SSD and a previous installation of windows on your hard drive. On your hard drive, if you wanted to, you could delete all the OS files from it to save some space as well. 

I hope I helped, I wasn't completely sure what you meant with a folder, but doing this method will work if you want a speedier OS. 

[Random Runner]

Thanks Guys

[macpro622776]

In Windows Disk Management, you instead of changing the drive letter you can mount the old hard drive as an NTFS folder. Just right click on the partition -> Change Drive Letters and Paths, then follow the instructions there.

 

However I would suggest you do a clean OS install on the SSD first, then fiddle around with that afterwards because you cannot reassign the C drive to another letter when you've booted up from it AFAIK, because otherwise you'd break the bootloader.