Best way to use small SSD w/ large HDD in win 7?

Well, take a look at it using SpaceSniffer first.

That looks good. I’ll give them a serious donation if it works for me. Thanks for the link.

That’s what I use my junction point for: moving the iTunes backups to the other drive. The day that Apple designs that turd to work properly is likely the day my head will assplode.

  1. move the contents of the subfolder to another folder on another drive
  2. delete the sub folder
  3. recreate the subfolder as a junction point with the exact name (don’t forget quotation marks) that points to the folder on another drive
    ie:

mklink /J “porn” d:\porn

Sorry, it’s a “Directory Junction” as MS calls it. The OS and everything else will treat it as a folder on C: still.

I think I’ll just keep iTunes off the SSD completely. This junction crap is already making me nauseous, lol. I’m better with hardware than software. Guess I need to read up on it some more.

Better solution is to just keep iTunes off your PC…period ;)

if your SSD is your C drive, the iTunes firmware updates and backups will still pile up on your C drive.

Is there a solution hidden amongst all the symlink options?

yeah you delete the specific subfolders that it puts those things into and then create junction directories to where you have relocated the folders on other drives.

I’ve never used 2 drives or partitions before, so this is a new subject for me in general. How do shortcuts differ? Aren’t they just varying types of these symbolic links/junctions? Does a shortcut on drive A work when the program it refers to is on drive B?

I guess what I don’t understand about this is how the SSD runs the program which resides on the HDD? The 2 drives operate differently, so how can one drive use the info on the other at the faster speed? Isn’t the limitating factor the drive where the information resides?

Ok, so I have read about MANY different ways to change my entire user account over to the HDD, some using junctions/symbolic links, shells, and others without. Has anyone here actually done it themselves, and can tell me that there are no issues with gameapps and such breaking later on?

I just want all steamapps, game saves, etc, to not be on the SSD, along with the typical docs. I haven’t tried the Steammover app yet, but that only works with Steam anyways (which in itself would help).

Also, if anyone here can point/link to what they think is the best way to move my user account to the HDD now that it is post-installation, that would be greatly appreciated. Sorry for pestering everyone with this topic…

To move the users directory I had to boot from my Win7 disc and go into repair mode. This allowed me to get to a command prompt. At that point I was able to move all of the files and set up the junction.

I just installed Gamesave Manager 2 which uses a Steam Spreader. Just moved all 22G of Rage from one drive to the other with a few buttons pushed. Amazing. I’ll probably just keep the user directory where it is for now, and use the library system to better manage documents on the HDD.