1TB internal HDD question about storage

Nah, system restore does not touch user folders even if they are on the C partition. But you are doing the right thing. User data is a lot safer in a seperate partition on the same or a seperate disk.

Make frequent backup of your user data partition anyhow. Just in case the disk goes on the blink. And the same of the system disk. With images you can always save the day. Here is my preferred imaging tool.

Imaging with free Macrium

You may want to make a seperate folder on the HDD for the very biggest games and direct them to that folder during the installation.

SSDs are great. I would not want to live without them. My oldest is from 2008 when they were still very expensive. In the meantime they have mushroomed to be nearly a dozen, LOL.

If you need any further SSD help, post back.

Summerbear5 said:

Thank you I will look into that imaging tool.

What about if I have games installed on the HDD and I do a System Restore or Recovery? If the games aren't going to be removed would I have to manually remove them and reinstall them so they recreate the registry files?

With a system restore or a restore from an image, nothing would change. You would have to do nothing.

Summerbear5 said:

Which is the one that does the complete factory reset and removes, reformats, and reinstalls the OS? That's the one I am talking about I forgot what it was called.

That is a reinstallation which sinks everything on C. But you don't want to get yourself into a situation where that is required - unless you like to do that for the fun of it (very tedious - last time I did that for someone on a Vista system we were busy for 3 days. Mainly because of all the updates.).

The right way is to make frequent images so that you can go back to one of those.