Installing software to a partition...

Hello all, I just received an Asus G53SW-a1 that I purchased about 2 weeks ago. No hiccups with the machine at all, but my only issue with setting it up for gaming (purpose of the machine outside school work) is dealing with the partition. I've never used one before and the notebook comes with the hdd already paritioned. I need to install software, etc. onto the secondary partition (keeping the OS and such on the main, i don't have an SSD). I suppose I could transfer files from the main to the secondary, but that's a bit of a pain and I would rather not waste time. Can anyone give me some tips on setting up the partition and having installers automatically drop files into, for example, a Program files folder that I make in the secondary partition? Thanks for your help in advance, and sorry if this is in the wrong forum section.

 

You know that you can use windows' disk management tool to merge the two partitions as long as the second one is empty right?

If you didn't know, now you do .

Right click on computer, choose manage, in the left pane choose the disk management. Right click the second empty partition, delete volume. Now right click on your partition and choose extend volume. By default it will be set to extend to the space you just freed by deleting the second partition.

As far installing automatically to another partition, short of messing with some registry settings (possibly), you'll have to choose the advanced install option and browse to your other partition. Also Steam can only install to it's default directory so if you use steam and have more games to install, you're better off merging the partitions.