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So I was just trying to download games from steam and it said I didn't have any storage space, There's no way that is possible since I just built it and haven't downloaded very much onto my 1Tb drive. On the windows menu it doesn't even show that there are two drives (only shows SSD) how do I get things to download on my hard drive? 

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You might need to format you hard drive.

 

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Click windows icon (bottom left / "start" button)

 

Type disk management

 

Go to disk management, and if your drive is uninitialized right click the new 1TB drive. (NOT YOUR SSD) and format, simple, no need to partition unless you want. Assign a drive letter. (Anything after the letter H: is a good idea, since USB drives will auto assign alphabetically from any open letters)

 

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The drive needs to be formatted probably. 

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Just now, Suttonspencer said:

How is that done?

 

For win 10:

 

Start menu, search for "partition", and click on "create and format hard drive partitions" at the bottom of the window that pops up when you click it, you shoud see bars representing all of you drives. Right click on the HDD that is not recognized, and click "new simple volume" or "new volume". You will be guided by an installer-type wizard. When asked what type of file system you want to format the drive as, select NTFS.

 

Since I am to lazy to put something interesting here, I will put everything, but slightly abbreviated. Here is everything:

 

42

 

also, some questions to make you wonder about life:

 

What is I and who is me? Who is you? Which armrest in the movie theatre is yours?

 

also,

 

Welcome to the internet, I will be your guide. Or something.

 

 

My build:

CPU: Intel Core i5-7400 3.0GHz Quad-Core Processor,

 Motherboard: ASRock B250M Pro4 Micro ATX LGA1151 Motherboard, 

Memory: Corsair 8GB (1 x 8GB) DDR4-2133 Memory,

Storage: Seagate Barracuda 1TB 3.5" 7200RPM Internal Hard Drive, 

Video Card: MSI Radeon RX 480 4GB ARMOR OC Video Card, 

Case: Corsair 100R ATX Mid Tower Case , 

Power Supply: Corsair CXM 450W 80+ Bronze Certified Semi-Modular ATX Power Supply, 

Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 Home Full, 

Wireless Network Adapter: TP-Link TL-WN725N USB 2.0 802.11b/g/n Wi-Fi Adapter, Case Fan: Corsair Air Series White 2 pack 52.2 CFM  120mm Fan

 

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Remeber kinds, the only differ between screwing around and scince is writing it down. -Adam Savage.

 

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2 minutes ago, NinJake said:

Click windows icon (bottom left / "start" button)

 

Type disk management

 

Go to disk management, and if your drive is uninitialized right click the new 1TB drive. (NOT YOUR SSD) and format, simple, no need to partition unless you want. Assign a drive letter. (Anything after the letter H: is a good idea, since USB drives will auto assign alphabetically from any open letters)

 

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It said :Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk" What do I do now?

 

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Just now, Suttonspencer said:

It said :Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk" What do I do now?

Can you post a screenshot? The fact that it says System Partition tells me that you are formatting the wrong partition/drive. The section for the hard drive should be listed as "Unallocated."

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Just now, Suttonspencer said:

It said :Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk" What do I do now?

 

Ensure you're formatting the new drive, not your SSD. There shouldn't be a "system" partition since you already have your OS installed on the SSD.

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1 minute ago, Suttonspencer said:

It says it is my "System Reserved" What does that mean?

That partition is found on the boot drive usually, but if you installed Windows while the hard drive was fully connected(power and data), Windows may have put it on the hard drive instead of the SSD. 

 

If it is found on your SSD, then you are formatting the wrong drive. But you cannot format that partition as it's strictly for system use, and is completely required. As I suggested before, can you post a screenshot of the whole program window?

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This is a screenshot of my current system. You can see the System Reserved partition is located on my SSD(Disk 0).

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1 minute ago, Godlygamer23 said:

That partition is found on the boot drive usually, but if you installed Windows while the hard drive was fully connected(power and data), Windows may have put it on the hard drive instead of the SSD. 

 

If it is found on your SSD, then you are formatting the wrong drive. But you cannot format that partition as it's strictly for system use, and is completely required. As I suggested before, can you post a screenshot of the whole program window?

 

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You will have to reinstall Windows. Windows reserved the entire drive for itself, and you cannot move a partition over to another drive AFAIK.

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Just now, Godlygamer23 said:

You will have to reinstall Windows. Windows reserved the entire drive for itself, and you cannot move a partition over to another drive AFAIK.

Can you give me the idiots step by step to doing that? I'm really new at the whole pc thing

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Just now, Suttonspencer said:

Can you give me the idiots step by step to doing that? I'm really new at the whole pc thing

Did you install Windows onto this system before?

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Just now, Suttonspencer said:

Yes, through a usb drive

It'll be the same process, but ensure all drives except for the SSD are disconnected(power or data, doesn't matter. You can disconnect both if you want to, and if you're concerned about power, disconnect the power connector(s)). Before going through with this though, back up any data that you want to keep such as video games, installation executables that you have saved, etc. Because the drives will be wiped(at least the way we're doing it).

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2 hours ago, Godlygamer23 said:

It'll be the same process, but ensure all drives except for the SSD are disconnected(power or data, doesn't matter. You can disconnect both if you want to, and if you're concerned about power, disconnect the power connector(s)). Before going through with this though, back up any data that you want to keep such as video games, installation executables that you have saved, etc. Because the drives will be wiped(at least the way we're doing it).

Is it possible to download without the need of the USB or disk?

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1 hour ago, Suttonspencer said:

Is it possible to download without the need of the USB or disk?

Nope, not with what we're doing.

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