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You have an awful lot of stuff on your SSD's C partition. Is your user data on there too.
OS says 58.1GB
What if anything can I put on the HDD ?
Should ask how to tune correctly ?
Last edited by COMPUTIAC; 17 Dec 2013 at 15:06.
Hello Again, Yes my OLD HD was a 1T drive, I originally made it into 3 partitions ( in 2009), The New SSD has not been partitioned. i keep my music and games on the D: Partition on the OLD HD.
The 40Gigs on the SSD, is the Migration of the OS and Programs from what i originally had on the old HD.
All OS files should stay on the SSD. But the user files can go on the spinner. If you want to move user files, let me know. I tell you the best way.
Well tuned system means:
Hiberfile eliminated
Pagefile reduced to 1 or 2GB
All bloatware and trial programs uninstalled
No major games installed. With Games, the size can be significantly more than 25GB
PS: 40GB is still a lot. You must have some really big programs.
Set the page file to 1GB min. and 2GB max.
Where do I find the Hiberfile ?
If I right click on user files and then use send to, to move them to the HDD;
then go back to user files and delete them, is this OK ?
I have no games or other junk.
Down to 38.7 now.
Here is the way I move user files to the spinner:
1. I create folders for Documents, Music, Videos, and Pictures on the spinner
2. I right click on those folders and INCLUDE them in their respective libraries
3. I rename them in the library (the left pane) to e.g. WHS Documents. That way they will not also be called 'My Documents'
4. I move my own folders (not the OS default folders) to their repective folders on the spinner. The OS default folders I leave in place because certain programs want to store things there. When you move the user folders, make sure that the program generated folders are not being moved.
You then will end up with 3 folders in the library - e.g. for Videos (see picture)
My Videos
Public Videos
Your name Videos
The advantage of this setup is that the program generated folders (which are usually quite small) will not get mixed up with your user folders.
There is another way to move the user folders and that is via the location tab in the folder properties. But that moves everything and the default location of those folders. Very often that gets messed up if you don't do it right and you are stuck with them where they are because the location tab disappears. Not recommended to do it that way (although I once published a video tutorial showing how to do that, LOL). You live and learn.