Need comp assistance
So, got a hard drive C and a ssd drive D. hard drive has op system, ssd has game. the ssd is taking longer to load then the hdd, of course i know its reading the hdd first, but without moving game to hdd, how can i boost the speed?
would changing the boot sequence to ssd first, even though no op system is on that work?
suggestions?
Hi @BackwoodsRaider,
Many questions that you are posting there, so suggest we take them one by one...@BackwoodsRaider wrote:
So, got a hard drive C and a ssd drive D. hard drive has op system, ssd has game. the ssd is taking longer to load then the hdd, of course i know its reading the hdd first, but without moving game to hdd, how can i boost the speed?
A lot of options available will all depend on the hardware you truly have available, current state of this and also if you have cash to invest into any upgrades or not. But baseline is that just using your existing hardware and setup, then you will only be able to realize some minor incremental improvements to your load speeds.
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@BackwoodsRaider wrote:
...would changing the boot sequence to ssd first, even though no op system is on that work?
No that would not work just like that, as your Operating System has to be present on the drive that you boot your PC from.
But if your hardware allows you to also boot first from your SSD drive, then if you have enough free space available on your SSD drive, you could then transfer your OS instead to the SSD drive. Please note that doing so and making it a system bootable drive, then you will typically need to reformat it from scratch first as the boot sectors have to be located at specific locations for the system to be able to boot from it. So you will also need to take care of relocating/reinstalling any other data you may have today on your SSD drive.
Personally I do though think this is the right thing to do overall, no matter what, as you will be better served in so ways by having your primary drive to be the faster SSD drive versus the slower HDD drive.
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@BackwoodsRaider wrote:
...Suggestions?
If your PC hardware allows for it and you have a bit of money then buying aka a 2TB SSD card these days costs 'just' around $160 or so. And then I would simply transfer your existing OS to the SSD card and then have two SSD cards going forward to take care of all your business there. If your existing SSD is big enough, you might even be able to do it with just what you have today? Get the OS installed and make the existing SSD as the primary boot drive and then just use your older/slower HDD for data storage that is not as time critical as the OS and the games you play the most often.
It used to be a bit of a technical challenge to shuffle your storage devices around, low level format HDDs, move the boot sectors around etc, but these days you have some nifty software tools that can get this job done for you without your have much technical background. Several YouTube videos also exist about this very subject and also many software tools that are even free of charge to use in private settings.
Best of luck with it!
