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Brandownage27
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I am going to be ordering a new computer, and I will be ordering a 64 GB SSD to be used only for Windows. I have a few questions about that however. Along with the 64 gig SSD, I have a 2TB HDD on the build as well. If you install windows on the SSD, does that mean the SSD will be the C drive? I'd like to know if there is a way I can have ONLY windows on the SSD, while EVERYTHING else goes to the HDD (games, music, downloads, programs, ect.) I'm trying to get all the information I need down now so I do not screw the boot up when my PC comes in in a couple weeks. If someone who has done this before can spare the time to give me an educated reply to the questions I have, that would be extremely helpful to me.
I will also rep.

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-Brandon.
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Yes, when you install windows it automatically becomes the C:/ drive.

And yes, you can have everything else on the 2TB HDD, but you will need to change the install directory on each and every program you install, as it's default install path is C:/Program Files.

Whether that's what you want to do or not is up to you. I have my Windows 7 on a 60GB V300 SSD, i have around 10GB space left after installs of fairly large programs such as Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Dreamweaver. SSD's hardly slow down when you install programs on them, it's not noticeable anyway.
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Ugh, that's what I was afraid of. I hate the thought of manually changing every programs's directory and was hoping there was some sort of automated way it could do it for you. Oh well. Thank you for the reply.
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Forget my last comment, use this.


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It should do the trick.
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