The experience below will help Windows users
transfer data from a solid-state drive (SSD) to a hard drive (HDD) and make the
operating system know that its location has been changed.
The use of both the SSD and HDD on your
computer is to achieve the balance between speed and storage space, so you
should install the operating system and programs on the SSD and store your data
on the HDD. But if the SSD is almost out of space and the free space on the HDD
is still quite a lot, it is necessary to move documents, music and other data
files to the hard drive.
How
to transfer data from SSD to HDD
The following steps are illustrated on a
computer running Windows 7 or Windows 8, the SSD is current C:\ drive that contains
the operating system and the HDD is D:\ which has plenty of space and is
responsible for storing data.
Firstly, in Windows 7, go to Start >
click on your username on the upper right corner of the Start menu. If your
device is running Windows 8, open File Explorer > click the long box just
below the ribbon length > type %userprofile% and then press ENTER.
You
should install the operating system and programs on the SSD and store your data
on the HDD.
Next, move the Documents folder by right-clicking
on "My Documents > Properties > choose Location tab". Change
the location by replacing the "C:\Users" with "D:\".
Specifically, if that line is like "C:\Users\Username\Documents",
then rename it to "D:\Username\Documents" (Username is the user name
used on your computer). Finally, click OK and accept the warnings popping out
to complete the transferal.
Edit
Properties of My Documents
Repeat those steps with any folder that you
want to move, such as Music, Pictures and Videos. If in Windows, the user has
set hidden files and folders (i.e., show hidden files and folders), the AppData
folder will appear but you should not move AppData, as this will cause the
operating system to encounter some problems.
However, it’s possible to move the AppData\Local
(this folder contains almost all the files in the AppData). Perform this by
selecting the address bar of Windows Explorer > type C:\Users\Uusername\AppData
(notice that Username is the username used by the operating system) >
right-click on the Local folder and change the location as described and
instructed above.
