Can someone help me out here? Maybe I'm just being thick......probably.

I bought this gaming laptop, and I have installed 7 games on it, and the C drive is already full, but there is 1TB on D drive.

Can I treat D drive the same a C drive, and install games on it?

Is 12GB RAM too small?

My Lenovo is the opposite. 889GB on C drive, and 25GB on D, so I am confused.

This HP has tons of 5 star reviews, but I see them talking about how small the C Drive is, and can anyone tell me what this guy is talking about?

"Upgrading the NVMe drive with a bigger one was super easy to do. All you need is an NVMe external enclosure that you plug in via USB 3.1, and run the AOMEI Backupper software to clone the original 128GB NVMe to the bigger 1TB NVMe drive. Then run the AOMEI Partition Assist Standard software to repartition the 1TB NVMe drive to utilize the entire capacity of the drive, instead of the original 128GB partition. ALL OF THIS SOFTWARE WAS FREE!!! The software was free and incredibly simple to use. This is just too easy and cheap of an upgrade not to do."


thanks!

The C drive is meant to only be a boot drive and maybe a few programs. What you should be doing is installing games on the D drive. It's there for TONS of storage and the smaller SSD is there to keep things nice and speedy. In fact, I would suggest uninstalling those games from the C drive and reinstalling on the D drive. If you are downloading games, you should also be downloading to the D drive.

This dual drive is a great setup, but it does take some management.

I have no idea what that guy was talking about... maybe Jenny will know. But it's all easy... just put everything on the D drive... that's what it's there for.

By the way, that is a really nice laptop... gets good reviews.

Yes, you can and should install games to the D drive. A 128 GB SSD is too small to be installing all your games on. Only games that access the hard drive a lot (like Obduction) will benefit noticeably from the speed of an SSD. With most games you won't see any difference if you install to D instead of C.


It's fine for adventure games and most other games. More than you need for most.
There may be some demanding action games where it would be better to have more than 12GB RAM, but I don't know of any games at all where the minimum requirement is more than 12GB RAM.


I'm guessing Lenovo configured their computer so that Windows was on the small 25GB D drive but most things installed to C -- for exactly the reason you ran into with your HP -- because most things install to C by default and Lenovo doesn't want you using up your 25GB drive.


I looked up NVMe on Wikipedia and it seems to be a type of SSD.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nvme

If Windows is installed on the small drive, you don't want to just swap out the small drive for a larger drive that is empty. So he used software to clone/copy his small drive to the new, large 1 TB NVMe drive via USB before swapping the small drive out for the larger drive.

It's not really necessary to do this unless you need the space. You can install games to D.

Thanks Draclvr and Jenny.

Well I did download all the games from my Steam Library (most of them anyway), and I've been trying for 2 days to get Tomb Raider to download, but my monthly any time data allowance, plus my bonus data allowance are both at zero for another 5 days, so I won't be reinstalling those games for a while. I've just never had this issue with the C drive running out of room before with any laptop that I had.

Then when I was installing a game on to D drive and had to change disk, it kept telling me the specified path could not be located, no matter what I put as the pathway, which should have been D drive/game name.

I tried installing it a couple of times with no success.

Check here
https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7710-TDLC-0426

Cool! Thanks Jenny I'll do that.

I hope I don't confuse the issue here, but I did not have to copy and paste anything as stated in that steam link Jenny. Earlier this year I went in my Steam settings and made a Steam Library folder on my D drive and made that my default download. I think I followed this video.

https://www.google.com/search?clien...+steam#kpvalbx=_B5OGXcX_O4zwtAWT4KOIDA32

Ok thank you Oldbroad, that works too. Much appreciated.

That's good to know. Thanks, oldbroad!

As I said, Joe, this is a great setup. BUT it takes some management to use the SSD for what it was intended and the big HDD for what it was intended for - storage!

It doesn't move the Steam installation but the games are downloaded to the 2nd drive and they work fine. Unless there is something that I'm not understanding.

This is something I should have said in my original post.