What to do with a second harddrive?

Luffy321

As stated a few weeks ago, I finally got a new pc. This is the first time I've had a second drive in my pc. 250gb ssd for the boot drive and 1tb wd black drive as the second

At first I thought this would be convenient but the second drive is just a big blank empty space. Is there anyway to organise the second drive so it is similar to C drive. I.e Program (86x), User files etc.

Thank you.

enfield_freddy

create a couple of directories on in , music , films , photos , then if you state the operating system we might be able to tell you how to set the default save to "d:/vidios , etc

Luffy321

Windows 7 64bit

enfield_freddy

ok , are you going to upgrade to win 10 in the near future ?

wongataa

Luffy321 wrote: »

At first I thought this would be convenient but the second drive is just a big blank empty space. Is there anyway to organise the second drive so it is similar to C drive. I.e Program (86x), User files etc.

Thank you.

Just create some folders you think might be useful on the second drive and put appropriate files in those folders. You can do what you like with the space and put any of your files on there. Leave all Windows files/folders where they are.

Mark_Sanders

Yeah, I agree with Freddy. Create some folders! When you're looking for media files, you can find them in /NameOfFolder .
In this way you do not have to go crazy!

@freddy: what do you think of win 10? I used it for a pair of days. I can't understand it. Horrible

enfield_freddy

I found that I needed to install classic shell (menu) and reset a few apps to open with the older versions , but it is defiantly smoother/faster than win 8

Luffy321

enfield_freddy wrote: »

ok , are you going to upgrade to win 10 in the near future ?

No.

create some folders you think might be useful on the second drive

I can create folders but the downloads and saves default to the C drive. I dont want to have to spend my time manually dropping files in the secondary drive.

Plus, what is my most annoying is there is no Program Files directory so if i install a program on the second drive I cant access the files if I need to.

enfield_freddy

PS , in win 10 all settings/system/storage is a simple toggle to set saved file locations

enfield_freddy

Luffy321 wrote: »

No.



I can create folders but there downloads and save default to the C drive. I dont want to have to spend my time manually dropping files in the drive.

Plus, what is my most annoying is there is no Program Files directory so if i install a program on the second drive I cant access the files if I need to.

ok create a folder called downloads , when you download , don,t just say "save" , click save as , and point it to d/downloads


programme files , correct they have to be on c: , d: is for files and data , not programmes

WobblyDog

You could set up a .cmd file (or use backup software) to automatically back up your data to the second drive nightly. It would give some protection against the C: drive failing.