Fresh Install what to do next

[Billy_Mays]

I installed windows again and need to know how to setup my secondary drive and I got my stuff that I need so what can I should I do know 

[sazrocks]

First I would install motherboard and graphics drivers but as for the second drive this video should help: 

 

[Skiiwee29]

if the drive is not formatted yet and you are on windows 10, right click on the start button and go to disk management. Down below you will see your drives. If any are black lines, that means they are not formatted. Right click on it and hit format disk and follow the prompts. If it is formatted, then there is nothing you should have to do. 

[Billy_Mays]

2 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

if the drive is not formatted yet and you are on windows 10, right click on the start button and go to disk management. Down below you will see your drives. If any are black lines, that means they are not formatted. Right click on it and hit format disk and follow the prompts. If it is formatted, then there is nothing you should have to do. 

Ok I did that and anything else that I should do?

[Changis]

5 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

I installed windows again and need to know how to setup my secondary drive and I got my stuff that I need so what can I should I do know 

connect it to your computer, if windows was installed on the drive, make sure you are booting from the proper harddrive in bios, after boot it should show up as a secondary drive as usual. copy the files you need (opening your old user folder may take a few minutes) then format it and use it as normal

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, Changis said:

connect it to your computer, if windows was installed on the drive, make sure you are booting from the proper harddrive in bios, after boot it should show up as a secondary drive as usual. copy the files you need (opening your old user folder may take a few minutes) then format it and use it as normal

Yeah I formatted them both in the windows installer yesterday

[Changis]

Just now, Billy_Mays said:

Yeah I formatted them both in the windows installer yesterday

then it should be "plug&play"

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, Changis said:

then it should be "plug&play"

Ok I'm installing all of the stuff I need to 

[Skiiwee29]

6 minutes ago, Billy_Mays said:

Ok I did that and anything else that I should do?

that should be all you need to do. The drive should have been automatically assigned a letter, likely D: or E: if you have an optical drive installed. You should be all set to be able to start putting programs and installing items onto the drive now. 

[NinJake]

In windows type in "disk partition" and make sure your other 500gb drive is formatted and you can assign it a letter there if you want once you create a volume.

[Billy_Mays]

13 minutes ago, legacy99 said:

that should be all you need to do. The drive should have been automatically assigned a letter, likely D: or E: if you have an optical drive installed. You should be all set to be able to start putting programs and installing items onto the drive now. 

Takes a while for steam to load and work 

11 minutes ago, NinJake said:

In windows type in "disk partition" and make sure your other 500gb drive is formatted and you can assign it a letter there if you want once you create a volume.

I've dont that already it's been about 15 minutes about but Steam is super slow

[LogicalDrm]

If you are planning to use another drive as place for software, create folders for Program Files and Program Files (x86). After that you can select which drive software is installing by just changing drive letter. This is BY FAR easiest way to handle things and won't make things super-annoying if you need to do system restore in future. Most software (looking angrily at Chrome) have option to choose install location.

[Billy_Mays]

43 minutes ago, LoGiCalDrm said:

If you are planning to use another drive as place for software, create folders for Program Files and Program Files (x86). After that you can select which drive software is installing by just changing drive letter. This is BY FAR easiest way to handle things and won't make things super-annoying if you need to do system restore in future. Most software (looking angrily at Chrome) have option to choose install location.

I got most of the stuff I need downloaded but I really dont like it when stuff wont let you choose where it will go

[LogicalDrm]

1 minute ago, Billy_Mays said:

I got most of the stuff I need downloaded but I really dont like it when stuff wont let you choose where it will go

Well, one reason I don't personally use Ninite. I don't remember if it allows to choose or not, last I tried it didn't. I prefer to individual downloads over it. Its good option if you only have single drive for software, like with big SSDs or older systems with single HDD. Its also reason why I've ditched Chrome and use Opera instead.

[Billy_Mays]

Just now, LoGiCalDrm said:

Well, one reason I don't personally use Ninite. I don't remember if it allows to choose or not, last I tried it didn't. I prefer to individual downloads over it. Its good option if you only have single drive for software, like with big SSDs or older systems with single HDD. Its also reason why I've ditched Chrome and use Opera instead.

Yeah with my setup right now I have 2 hdd but in the future I will have multiple hdds and a big SSD

[Donut417]

On 7/24/2017 at 5:49 PM, Billy_Mays said:

I installed windows again and need to know how to setup my secondary drive and I got my stuff that I need so what can I should I do know 

Install your software and such. Make sure all your drivers are up to date. Consider a new Anti Virus if you dont trust the one built in. 

[Billy_Mays]

7 hours ago, Donut417 said:

Install your software and such. Make sure all your drivers are up to date. Consider a new Anti Virus if you dont trust the one built in. 

I've had it running for since Monday afternoon