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Hard Drive management: teach me my master.
Casually Hardcore
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Once an Asshole. Trying to be better.Registered User regular
Okay, so all my life I've been using one huge hard drive for all my needs.
Not anymore, I decided to try out a raid 0 setup. Using the 2 drives in raid for O/S and gaming, and one big storage drive.
My question is, how do I tell windows to use my storage drive instead of using the drive it's installed on as default?
To be more clear, how can I tell window to automatically install to another drive, without me having to manually select that drive for every install I do?
I'm using 64-bit Win7 Home Premium.
Not anymore, I decided to try out a raid 0 setup. Using the 2 drives in raid for O/S and gaming, and one big storage drive.
My question is, how do I tell windows to use my storage drive instead of using the drive it's installed on as default?
To be more clear, how can I tell window to automatically install to another drive, without me having to manually select that drive for every install I do?
I'm using 64-bit Win7 Home Premium.
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edit: and this might break stuff that has already been installed, like WMP, so you might need to reinstall those.
edit 2: And of course Microsoft says don't try it.
Why do you want to tell Windows to use the storage drive for anything? That would negate most of the performance gains from having a striped drive setup.
All applications should be loaded from the RAID drives, with only non speed critical (or tiny) files being on the large and slow storage drive.
The second thing is: If you are doing a major reconfig like you wanted to do, it's generally better to just back up everything, wipe the PC, and then start over in the configuration you want.
My last comment/suggestion is. Why not go RAID 5 and just keep everything as you had it done before? RAID 5 is striped and mirrored, so you don't have to worry about 1 drive going dead and destroying all your data.
Added bonus is you can keep everything as you are used to, and just get a cheap external drive for any storage needs you might want. Provided your initial drive is large enough for your needs, you should be able to set it up as the primary in a RAID 5 array and simply build the array on it. There might be some funky Windows errors however, it depends on how well Win7 handles it. Either way, worst case you backed up your data and simply rebuild it fresh in RAID 5.
I'm not too sure on Raid 5. I should read up on that.