Yes believe it or not a computer question

[Richie]

Hi everybody:

I'm not back with the old hard drive stuff but when it comes to these Solid State drives I have no clue. I put this question in a more or less know it all forum but it hasn't been answered yet..My WWII Combat sim forum.

Here's the question. If you have both a hard drive and a solid state drive in your computer do you install windows on both drives? All I want the solid state drive for is the game DCS. I imagine there's some tec. guys in here.

 

[Detective D]

No, you set windows up on one.
I haven't messed with windows 10 in a while(never 11) but when you boot up there should be a key press prompt to go to BIOS and you should be able to set a boot order and a few other settings for the hard drives. You set windows to boot from whatever your hard drive is called. Should be able to set the SSD as a secondary.

Before my most recent rig, I actually did the opposite of what you did and put critical things on the SSD because of the speed. Windows, any game I was into, and then used the HDD for mass storage, windows back up file, etc. Got to enjoy the improved speed and still had plenty of storage.

 

[Richie]

Think I got the answer from this guy. Thanks though

 

[MarPar]

To answer your question, no. Windows on either/or not both.

You could always get a large ssd and partition it. Windows on one partition and everything on the other partition(s). That way when windows takes a ****, your data is safe.

Also, spinning hard drives are not a matter of if, but when they will fail.

 

[Richie]

I deleted the partitions on both drives three days ago

anyway never mind things seem to be working.....oooookay on the HD just takes an episode of Justified to bootup DCS