how do i properly install SSD drive?
 

anyone know how i can install the SSD to boot main programs/games and use my old HDD as the storage for the main files of those programs? is that even possible.

Uhh, if you want to boot a program off the SSD then that means that those programs will be installed and stored on the SSD. Not sure if that's what you're asking, you might want to clarify.

When you boot your computer, make sure you change in bios settings that it boots up the SSD first. I think what Doritos means is that he wants to install Windows on the ssd/run his main programs and games.

make sure the ssd has windows on it and it will boot first

not true.. if you have more then 3 drives and the drive with windows isnt on the first 3 boot drives, it will fail to load the OS

yeah thats right, i just installed fresh windows on new ssd drive and it boots up, now i have the old hdd that i want to use as storage to save files from the main programs on the ssd, if that makes any sense? Say i want to run the sims 3 or skyrim on the ssd, am i able to save the game file saves to hdd so the ssd doesnt take up room?

yup, its booting correctly

oh and how can i transfer large files say around 40gb from a hard drive to a new one? it takes way to long to use network sharing..

CTRL X and then CTRL P?

Why you make threads like this?

First you ask how to install brakes, ok fine.
then you ask joystick lah --?
Now you ask how to install SSD?

Maybe you should SSD

STOP SHITTING DICKS onto revscene

my internets are compromised.

i don't think that is possible. when you install a program or game onto your SSD, all the files will be installed there. there is no way to use JUST use your SSD to boot up the game while all the files are stored on your secondary HDD.

if you are looking for fast boot up times, you may consider getting a hybrid SSD.
it contains NAND and basically your most used files/programs will be stored in that section and it will boot faster.

As far as your computer is concerned, the SSD is just another hard drive - it doesn't know the difference, and you won't know the difference using it except it will be faster; everything will still work exactly as it did before. Once you're booting from the SSD, just reconnect the other drive, go in the BIOS, and make sure the machine is set to boot off the SSD. When you get into Windows, the old drive will show up as the next available drive letter (probably D: or E: )

So the real question becomes, can THE GAME store its game files in a different location than where the program itself is installed? If so, just point that path to somewhere on the old drive. If not, you MIGHT be able to make it work with some trickery, like mounting the old drive as a folder rather than as a drive.

I just swapped an SSD into my laptop: I put it in a SATA dock, plugged that into my laptop, used Acronis TrueImage to clone the old laptop drive to the SSD, then put the SSD in the laptop. Bing, bang, boom, done.

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how easy was it to use Acronis TrueImage? im planning to clone my smaller SSD to a bigger SSD.

stop eating doritos , you damn sloth

acronis is pretty easy to use as it has a really friendly GUI.

I use clonezilla for ssd/mechanical to ssd as that has always worked for me

Unfortunately, this is not possible.

Games usually save their data in the same folder and drive they are installed in. There are exceptions, but they still save to the same drive, usually in My Documents.

What you can do is partition the SSD into separate partitions, depending on the size of your SSD. If it's 120gb or lower, just do two partitions.

60gb for Windows only. 60gb for games and programs. Or whatever you like.

Second option is buy another SSD. Prices are decreasing and they're much cheaper than they were couple years ago.

Just to clarify, Windows DOES know that it's an SSD, and will make changes to accommodate. This will allow it to run as fast as possible, without wasting a lot of writes.

As a result, any SSD you buy today will effectively last "forever" as far as write durability is concerned. Some may run slower than others as it gets filled up however, but things will always work in the background to have it running as fast as possible.

You should always run everything off the SSD as long as you have space for it. Do not disable anything, do not move anything off it...

Right, I worded it poorly. FUNCTIONALLY, the USER will never see a difference between an SSD and a spinny drive. They look the same in Disk Management, in disk Properties, and for that matter, in pretty much every disk utility.

This is true: your game files will read/write much faster from the SSD; moving them off to the spinny drive will only negate some of the benefit you'd see from it.

Acronis is a breeze. It will allow you to expand the image to fill the new drive, or shrink it if there's freespace on the original, or leave it the same size so you can create a separate partition afterward.

If you own a Seagate or Western Digital drive, there are free versions available - they check for the presence of a branded drive, but you don't have to be copying to or from that drive, so you could be moving say, from an Intel SSD to a Corsair, but if you plug in a Seagate external, Acronis will detect that and run normally.

WD version: WD Support
Seagate version: DiscWizard | Seagate (yes, "DiscWizard" is ATIH)

I just installed Battlefield 4 on to a regular drive because my SSD didn't have enough space. Worst idea ever! The load times are so long, I wonder if my computer has frozen... :cry:

Should have just deleted some stuff off my SSD. :(

^should of gotten a bigger ssd

Yeah I have to reinstall BF4 onto my SSD drive, but I am lazy. It doesnt load THAT slowly, but I know how fast it could be.