Computer geeks I need your help

[i2ain2thunder 10+ year member]

OK so I have 2 hard drives, one of them is a solid state drive (SSD) the other is a regular ole hard drive. My solid state is 30gb my other drive is 1 Tb. Here is my dilema, I do not have jumpers with my drives....so I guess they are cable select? Anyway My computer chose the SSD drive to be master. The other drive I guess should be a slave drive right? Well my SSD is drive C: and my other drive is drive E: I don't know why it's not D: and maybe thats where a problem lies. Anyway since my main drive is only 30GB the thing is full up with data and I need to rip some CDs I just bought, problem is I have no more space on the SSD. I figured at that point the computer would automatically use the other drive to add more data....this is not the case. I'm not very familiar with drive designations or data sharing between them. Am I right in assuming the other drive should take over when more data needs to be downloaded? If I am right, is there a reason why my computer is saying my C: drive is full and I can't rip these CDs??

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[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

you will need to manually select the E drive as the drive to rip the cd's to.

 

[tommyk90 5,000+ posts]

You need to change the directory where the cd's are being ripped to.

What are you using to rip the cd's?

 

[Germ305 10+ year member]

^^^As well as when you install a program and it asks you which directory to install it in...you will need to manually point it to that E drive.

 

[i2ain2thunder 10+ year member]

Ok, so when I pull up WMP I can have it check for music in both drives then I suppose I'll look into this thanks guys....sorry I newb with nice computer haha

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[regal8r 5,000+ posts]

^^^As well as when you install a program and it asks you which directory to install it in...you will need to manually point it to that E drive.

not sure why you would want to install any programs to a TB when you have an ssd...the whole point of having an ssd is to install the os and all programs on it for quick bootup and startup of programs..

 

[i2ain2thunder 10+ year member]

not sure why you would want to install any programs to a TB when you have an ssd...the whole point of having an ssd is to install the os and all programs on it for quick bootup and startup of programs..

Yeah my OS and everything is on the SSD thats why the bish is full.