dragonlord987 Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Ok so to start off let me explain what is going on. First off, I have 2 drives in my Rig. the first is a 64 gig hard drive ment for basic programs and the os, my second is a 1TB SSD where i store all my files and games. I have NMM set to ave all mods to a seperate file in my SSD due to how limited the space on my hard drive is. and this has been fine, but recently i started to notice something, My hard drive was filling up, today i only had 300 MB left. So i started to unistall and delete everything i could. And eventually i had 7.5 gigs. i returned to updating my mods and looking for new one when upon checkin i noticed i had some how filled another gig of space. I downloaded a mod and more space was filled. now it is not like the entire mod is being downloaded to my first drive, but if this keeps up i will lose the ability to even play my games at all because as my first hard drive fills up my games start to lag more and more. can anyone help me solve this? clearing out a cache every once in a while or changing a setting. anything to help me return to gaming and modding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dragonlord987 Posted February 17, 2014 Author Share Posted February 17, 2014 (edited) the worst part is that even if i delete mods it does not free up any space on my first Hard Drive at all. Edited February 17, 2014 by dragonlord987 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted February 17, 2014 Share Posted February 17, 2014 Are you sure you don't have that backwards? a 64G SSD as root (C:) and a 1TB rotating hard drive as the secondary? A 1 TB SSD would cost over US $600 while a 64Gb SSD can be had for under US $100. While a 1TB Spinning type HD is around US $60 and a 64 GB spinning HD is so out of date I'm not sure you can still get one. If it is a 64GB SSD, I can understand it filling up too fast. Unfortunately Windows INSISTS that everything MUST be installed to the root drive C:\ ( the same one where Windows is installed by default.) There are ways around this, but most programs dutifully try to cram everything into the C: drive by default. Very similar to my own 120GB SSD as C:\ and a 1TB secondary HD as E:\ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thandal Posted February 18, 2014 Share Posted February 18, 2014 The most common solution to your situation (if bben is correct and your solid-state drive is the 64GB primary, and your secondary is the 1TB HDD) is to create a symbolic link between folders on the HDD and your games' installation folders (or your "\Documents" folder) on the SSD. Here's a basic "guide to symbolic links". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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