How to path game downloads to alternative disk?

Do you want the whole thing on your HD or just part of it (i.e. expansions?)

If you want the whole thing on your HD:

Copy the entire SSD\Origin Games\Battlefield 4 folder to your HD\Origin Games.

Rename (or delete) the one on the SSD (if you don't do this it will keep accessing this location because in the registry that's where it's pointing regardless of Origin's settings)

Change Origin's settings to install games to the new location where you copied HD\Origin Games

Click Download on BF4 (may need to relaunch Origin).

It will accept your current files nad not need to redownload them, it will jump straight to installing.

*edit* Do a repair for good measure once finished.

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If you want part of it on the SSD and another part on the HD, a soft link/junction is needed:

mklink /J <Link> <Target> 

mklink /j D:\BFxpacs\Xpac# C:\Origin Games\Battlefield 4\Update\Xpack#  

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/278262-mklink-create-use-links-windows.html 

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*edit*

If your SSD is already full, Origin will not let you even attempt to install new things even though you have a soft link in place.  The only way to get around this is to juggle the installs locations.

What I mean is install it completely on the HD first (using the top method so you don't need to redownload everything)... then copy it back to the SSD and soft link the expacs.

I did this once because I was using one of my older smaller SSDs and didn't realize what a beast this game is with everything installed.

*edit2*

Another way would be to just free up enough space on the SSD that it allows the install to take place but with a softlink in place it won't be taking up additional SSD space as it will all be going to the HD.

@SaberOfCanadia

As the above post is a bit all over the place and confusing, here are some simpler steps to switch the download option to another drive (since it sounds like you have not downloaded it yet).

1.  Open up your Origin Client and click Origin in the top-left corner

2.  Click Application Settings

3.  Click Advanced

4.  Under the Download Games section, select Change...

5.  Find the drive you want to download to, and create a folder named Origin Games

6.  Select the folder you created above

7.  Now it should display this drive and folder location in the section next to Change...

8.  Go back to your My Games tab and download BF4.  It will now install to the drive you selected.

If you have actually downloaded the game, the steps below will allow you to transfer it to a different drive without having to re-download.

1.  COPY the game folder (i.e "STAR WARS Battlefront") and PASTE to the drive you wish to transfer to (the D drive, E drive, etc)
2.  Once transferred re-name the folder "Copy of ..."
3.  Open up your Origin Client
4.  Click on Origin in the top-left corner and select Application Settings...
5.  Click Advanced on the left hand side
6.  Under "Downloaded Games", click Change...
7.  Locate the Drive you wish to install the game to, create a folder on the drive called "Origin Games" and select that folder
8.  Go back to your My Games tab and right-click on the game you want to download / install and select Download
9.  Let the download go for about 30-60 sec and hit Pause (or the Pause symbol)
10.  Find the folder on the drive that it is downloading to
11.  Open up the folder that the games are in and delete ALL files in that folder, but LEAVE THE FOLDER THERE
12.  Now go to the folder you transferred from the other drive (Copy of ...) and highlight and COPY ALL of the files inside that folder (NOT the folder itself)
13.  Go to the folder that Origin created and you just deleted the files from and PASTE the files from the "Copy of ..." folder
14.  Go back to your Origin Client and press resume on the download
15.  It will now take a minute or two and then your download will jump to 100% and install the game
16.  Enjoy!!!