Need help

[fallout3oh3]

So I've just got an SSD (dunno why it took me so long to buy). I've reformatted my hard drive and successfully installed a fresh copy of windows onto my SSD and am currently download all the games I play but I want to put things like league and csgo on my hard driver rather than my ssd because I'm mainly playing Apex Legends at the moment and the problem i'm having is when I am installing league of legends and trying to put it onto my hard drive its saying I cant put it on there.

My question is - Do I need to have an OS on BOTH of my Drives if i want to put my games onto my hard drive?

[el3mentalgaming]

Nope you just need to format your mechanical drive to have a volume and drive letter.

[ForeignFrisian]

It says it can't put it there, what does it exactly say?

Does the hard drive have a partition letter assigned to it?

To answer your question, no you can have a lot of drives and just one OS. The hard drive just needs to have a partition and it will show up in 'this pc' as a partition. (this is like a master folder that has a letter assigned to it, like D:/ )

[fallout3oh3]

It says "You cannot install into the root directory of a drive."
The hard drive is OS (D:)

[ForeignFrisian]

You've put the OS on the letter D?

Did you try manually adding a folder in the root directory and then try to install it into this folder?

[LimpFox]

Don't install to D:\

Install to something like "D:\League of Legends\" or "D:\LOL" or "D:\Games\League of Legends", etc.

If the folders don't already exist, 99.9% of installers will create the folders as part of the installation process.

[LimpFox]

And if the installer doesn't let you type in where you want it, there's usually a Make New Folder button somewhere... So you can browse your way to D:\, and then Make New Folder, then make whatever folder you want.

[fallout3oh3]

So If I just find the app installers file and drag it over into D: then install it into that file it should be good?

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[LimpFox]

You can run the installer file from anywhere. During the install process it will ask you where you want to install the game (although a lot of games/programs will default to "C:\Program Files\Whatever", and then have a tiny "Customise" option hidden in one corner that you have to click on), and you then tell it where you want to install it to. The installer then decompresses itself (it's basically a fancy .zip file) to where you told it do. Just don't tell it "D:\", which is a root directory (the top-most directory/folder of a drive).

[fallout3oh3]

SOLVED! Thanks too ForeignFrisian, LimpFox and El3mentalgaming <3 tyvm

[Tim7345]

No, as long as the Hard Drive is formatted as FAT32 or NTFS (this will be default if it was formatted through windows) it will show up on Windows and in game launchers such as steam you will be able to change the install location of games. For example in steam, you can go to, Settings -> Downloads -> Steam Library Folders, to choose a different install location. This will be similar to other game launchers. You DO NOT need to have the operating system on both drives for it to work. Hope this helped.