I really screwed up.. or someone did.

[ShotgunSmiles88]

While ttrying to figure out why only one hardrive was showin gup in the program files menu, i called the guys at Fry's who built my first "newbeast" PC (1080ti, Intel 7 quad dcore, liquid cool 650 wats, SSD and 3TB HDD, etc) and communicating over the phone got me and the technician mixed up and we accidently coverted "Disk 1" to a dynamic Drive... Should i take the PC in aand have them reformat befor ei start doing things on this PC only to have major issues dowbn the road?

 

P.S. Is there such thing as a patient and Knowledgeable PC tech that doesnt get noticebly frustrated (a little too frustrated with a newbie the is trying to learn and ask questions and doesn't get most of that they are sayin gthe first or second time around? I Mean damn.

[ShotgunSmiles88]

My SSD is Dynamic and my 3tb HDD is basic and apparently its the "primary Partition". A partition is a part of the drive that's separate? God I'm more of a philosopher and not a Technical brain at all. I just want to know how my computer is working and how I would go about using Mod Organizer and LOOT with both SSD and HDD. Can I Launch Skyrim thru the SCript Extender? Can I keep steam inb my HDD and any games I have uninstalled in my HDD and bring t6hem to th4 SSD when I want to install and play them? IS this spoon real? I would like a Cookie for Morpheus..... pfffft (fart noise)

[KnorKater]

A harddrive can be split into individual partitions (C:\, D:\, E:\, etc), for example if you only have one HDD, but want to separate your windows files from everything else you save on your computer. Think of it as virtual harddrives.

The primary partition on an individual harddrive is the partition your computer can boot from (look for an operating system) when starting. The active partition when having multiple physical harddrives is the partition from which your computer actually will try to boot from, first.

A basic drive handles partitions on a single harddrive. Drives set to dynamic can handle partitions that span over multiple physical harddrives, for example if you combine them to a RAID (most servers do this, as it's possible to recover much more data from RAIDS than from a single harddrives if one dies).

Dynamic drives save the info about the location of their split partitions in an extra database. if you don't configure another drive to work with it, and specifically create a partition that spans both, pretty much nothing will happen, as the partition on that drive is still only present on that drive.

That's pretty much all there is to it. You don't need to worry.


Are you still having issues with your drives, other than that?

[KnorKater]

how I would go about using Mod Organizer and LOOT with both SSD and HDD.

I use NMM, so I can't help you with the Mod Organizer. But there shouldn't be any problems. Just install the game normally, and they should be able to locate it automatically. Same goes for LOOT. I have NMM and LOOT installed on one SSD, Fallout 4 on another one. Works just fine.

 

Can I Launch Skyrim thru the SCript Extender?

Yes. Either just add a shortcut to skse_loader.exe on your desktop (you can even change its Icon to be that of Skyrim), or add it as a non-Steam game on Steam, if you want to start it from there.

 

Adding as a non-Steam game (skse_loader.exe instead of f4se_loader.exe):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Can I keep steam inb my HDD and any games I have uninstalled in my HDD and bring t6hem to th4 SSD when I want to install and play them?

Yes. You need to add a folder on your SSD as a Steam library folder. Open Steam, click on Steam in the top left corner, go to "Settings->Downloads" and click on "Steam Library Folders". Here's a screenshot if that helps:

 

 

 

Instead of uninstalling a game, just move it from your "[Your SSD partition]:\Steam\steamapps\common\"-folder to your HDD, and move it back if you want to play it again.

 

IS this spoon real?

Only if it's made of cheese.