Issue with games on secondary HDD.

[Peso]

So I installed Windows 10 on a 60GB SSD and set-up my HDD as my storage drive. When I installed Battle.net and Hearthstone to the D drive it now gives me weird issues, one being the size on the uninstall programs window shows Hearthstone being 4.23GB when it's only 2.11GB on my D drive, the other being a random file is created on my D drive with 0 bytes plus a bunch of letters and numbers, it also changed my install date to the 29th when I installed it on the 28th.

I'm interested about this and if it's an issue/something I can resolve before I install larger games like WoW.

Thanks for any input.

[chazus]

Eugh... The point of the SSD is to install the games on them... 60gb is just too small. If you can... I'd... return it? get a bigger one? Doesn't really solve your problem but there's sort of a bigger issue at hand.

[Peso]

Eugh... The point of the SSD is to install the games on them... 60gb is just too small. If you can... I'd... return it? get a bigger one? Doesn't really solve your problem but there's sort of a bigger issue at hand.

I heard many people install their steam library on their secondary HDD, and programs? Not sure why it's an issue given a 120GB SSD could barely fit all Blizzard's titles and the OS anyways.

[chazus]

People install it on the secondary HDD because they have too much stuff. 120gb is fine for a few games (WoW, D3, SC2 perhaps), but after that you need a 250gb.

I just feel it sort of defeats the purpose of getting an SSD when you have to pick and choose which things it benefits and which it doesnt.

[Akainakali]

So I installed Windows 10 on a 60GB SSD and set-up my HDD as my storage drive. When I installed Battle.net and Hearthstone to the D drive it now gives me weird issues, one being the size on the uninstall programs window shows Hearthstone being 4.23GB when it's only 2.11GB on my D drive, the other being a random file is created on my D drive with 0 bytes plus a bunch of letters and numbers, it also changed my install date to the 29th when I installed it on the 28th.

I'm interested about this and if it's an issue/something I can resolve before I install larger games like WoW.

Thanks for any input.

It sounds like you might have compression turned on.

http://www.howtogeek.com/133264/how-...might-want-to/

Unless you have a tiny HDD or it's very full, it's fairly pointless for a multi-terabyte HDD.

Neither of those oddities you mention are things that I would be terribly concerned about, unless you are having other issues.

[Novaice]

So I installed Windows 10 on a 60GB SSD and set-up my HDD as my storage drive. When I installed Battle.net and Hearthstone to the D drive it now gives me weird issues, one being the size on the uninstall programs window shows Hearthstone being 4.23GB when it's only 2.11GB on my D drive, the other being a random file is created on my D drive with 0 bytes plus a bunch of letters and numbers, it also changed my install date to the 29th when I installed it on the 28th.

I'm interested about this and if it's an issue/something I can resolve before I install larger games like WoW.

Thanks for any input.

Make sure your HDD is NTFS formatted. FAT 16 / FAT 32 requires more space.

[Peso]

It sounds like you might have compression turned on.

http://www.howtogeek.com/133264/how-...might-want-to/

Unless you have a tiny HDD or it's very full, it's fairly pointless for a multi-terabyte HDD.

Neither of those oddities you mention are things that I would be terribly concerned about, unless you are having other issues.

Both the drive and the folder have compression unchecked. It was freshly formatted within windows after I installed the OS on my SSD. It may be Blizzard's games? I wonder if anyone else runs the same setup and has these issues.

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Make sure your HDD is NTFS formatted. FAT 16 / FAT 32 requires more space.

Yeah ran the partition setup within windows and it's formatted as NTFS. All I did was select the letter D to recognized the drive as.

Also created the folder "Program Files (x86)" and ran the setup to be installed within that folder.

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People install it on the secondary HDD because they have too much stuff. 120gb is fine for a few games (WoW, D3, SC2 perhaps), but after that you need a 250gb.

I just feel it sort of defeats the purpose of getting an SSD when you have to pick and choose which things it benefits and which it doesnt.

Yeah I wanted an SSD so it boots up and runs internet fast. I don't really use my PC for anything else besides Games and Internet anyways. The only thing that takes long now is the screen before loading windows then it boots in 2 seconds.