Adding space to program files?!?!?!

Hey all,

I have a 120GB SSD that I have maxxed out with programs. I recently bought another 240GB SSD to use to increase the size. Can someone please explain how to do this?! I know its a Raid right? which raid is it that i'm looking for and any link to a tutorial on how to do it myself would be awesome..

Thanks TL!!!

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skyR Canada. August 19 2012 14:14. Posts 11164

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Just use it as a regular drive...

MiseryStarcraft United States. August 19 2012 15:48. Posts 7

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it won't work for installing programs. I have a studio for school thats 80GB on its own + SC2, WoW, CS:GO, DOTA2, LoL, HoN, D3, Portal, Portal2, Etc.

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skyR Canada. August 19 2012 16:11. Posts 11164

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You can install programs on any drives with the exception of shitty programs that don't allow you to select a directory.

SC2, WoW, CSGO, D3, DotA2, LoL, HoN, Portal, etc can all be on another drive.

CatNzHat United States. August 19 2012 16:26. Posts 1290

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If you want to create a RAID array, then you will have to reformat both drives, which would wipe their data.

You seem to be a clueless dude as far as computers go, you should have asked (or googled) for a solution to your problem before making a purchase.

However, since you failed to do this, just move all non-applications to the new drive to free up space, or install new applications on the new drive.

You claim that it won't work for installing new programs, mentioning a studio for school that's 80GB. I can't tell if you're just trolling or english isn't your first language, but please elaborate further, or consult the magical google machine.

jdseemoreglass United States. August 19 2012 17:19. Posts 3773

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On August 19 2012 16:11 skyR wrote:
You can install programs on any drives with the exception of shitty programs that don't allow you to select a directory.

SC2, WoW, CSGO, D3, DotA2, LoL, HoN, Portal, etc can all be on another drive.

In practice though installing these programs on another drive will still cause them to use your primary C directory for many of the installation files, sometimes even the majority. I've got an SSD and I've tried installing many different programs to my secondary hard drive but it always takes up some space on C and drives me nuts.

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Lmui Canada. August 19 2012 17:24. Posts 1883

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On August 19 2012 17:19 jdseemoreglass wrote:

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Usually they'll use your C drive for save data and user data such as screenshots, custom content etc since your documents folder is there. The vast majority of the program should be in whichever partition you installed to.

If you absolutely have to, uninstall one thing from your C, reinstall it to the new hard drive and you'll be golden.

Last edit: 2012-08-19 17:25:28

phar United States. August 19 2012 17:31. Posts 564

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On August 19 2012 17:19 jdseemoreglass wrote:

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HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion "ProgramFilesDir" covers it for most well-written programs

Some things will hardcode to C:\, but one would hope that your large programs are better written

Last edit: 2012-08-19 17:32:01

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JustPassingBy August 19 2012 17:52. Posts 6243

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Another way would be to create a symbolic link in the one harddrive to the other.

HomeWorld Romania. August 19 2012 20:02. Posts 561

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As the previous poster suggested, the easy way would be to move big programs to the other disk and make a "junction" from the new folder to the old folder (symbolic link)
example: you have starcraft2 installed in c:\programs and files\starcraft2 (c: being your old disk and d: the new disk) , you copy starcraft2 to the new disk ( example d:\programs and files\starcraft2) then you remove starcraft2 folder from old disk and you create a junction from d:\programs and files\starcraft2 to c:\programs and files\
Also you can always move the swap file and temp dirs to the other disk too to gain some space (not much but it helps).

PS: in the future make sure you install new programs on the new disk directly.

(SC2, WoW, CS:GO, DOTA2, LoL, HoN, D3, Portal, Portal2, everything from this list can be moved and use the junction trick without any problems)

Last edit: 2012-08-19 20:09:49

cari-kira Germany. August 20 2012 06:35. Posts 632

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usually programs that use a lot of disk space for temp files let you choose the partition/folder for this (e.g. photoshop, cubase, ...)
you furthermore should be able to install everything from your list (a studio for school thats 80GB on its own + SC2, WoW, CS:GO, DOTA2, LoL, HoN, D3, Portal, Portal2) on a partition different from your system partition, with these programs only using some few MB on your systems partitions local user settings folder after that.

the raid you are looking for would be raid0, but it doesnt work the way you think, as mentioned.
you cant use a raid0 as system partition without a hardware raid controller on your motherboard. so the problem of the 80gb studio that "has to use your system partition" wont be adressed by that.
next problem is, if one harddisk has a failure in a raid0 array, the data on _both_ harddisks is lost.
thats why you dont use raid0 for system partitions.
better forget this idea.

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