Then we can tell all the game installers (or whathaveyou) to install into a directory under there, and there will be no issues.
While that's possible, if there's two drives and the OS is on the smaller one, I'm strongly inclined to think he may have a little SSD and a big HDD, with the intention of using the SSD for programs and other frequently loaded files and the HDD as archive space. That's been in vogue for a while.
If that's the case, he'd probably want to just use the presumably faster C: as normal, since it sounds like this is to be a gaming machine, and maybe use the DATA drive as backup space.
... Yeah.
It's embarrassing for me to admit, but you're right, and I made a mistake. As it turns out, the laptop I bought didn't just have a 1 TB hard drive (which is what I was looking for), but, to quote the Amazon page: "128 GB SSD + 1 TB 5400 RPM (SATA) HDD Dual drives...".
I missed that when I was reading the information. Though I suppose I wouldn't have recognized what it meant anyway, as I wasn't familiar with what SSD meant. Still, it's my mistake, and feel so very embarrassed. I've had a lot of things go wrong over the past few weeks (not just technical) and I guess the frustration has been getting to me. Really, I should have realized something didn't add up, quite literally, as, when I took another look at what I saw on the Windows Explorer, the size of the C Drive and the DATA Drive add up to MORE than 1 TB.
I'm very sorry about this, guys. I really am. In light of this, let me retract my question for a new one. I did some light reading, and I understand that these hybrid drives improve performance by basically letting you place all the OS files on the smaller, extra SSD drive, allowing you to install everything else on the larger, proper hard drive.
And that's how I want to use it. My plan is to install all applications on the larger DATA Drive and leave the SSD/C Drive to the OS files. The SSD is so comparatively small, I basically don't want to put anything on there that doesn't absolutely
need to go there. I mean, 42 GB of 104 are already filled. Of course, I'll be uninstalling Firefox and reinstalling it on the DATA Drive.
My concern is this: What about programs that come with the laptop? For example, what about Skype? I simply signed into it, and it looks like it's installed on the C Drive. Is it possible to move it? If so, is it worth the effort? Or what about stuff like Microsoft Office? That's already on there, and I'd just need to enter the registration codes I got when I bought the software separately years ago. Would I get a choice there?
I can't think of any other examples off the top of my head at the moment, but you get the idea. I've never dealt with a hybrid drive like this before, and I'm worried about this much smaller SSD Drive getting filled up years down the road, so on and so on.