New computer without internal hard drive

Hi quailbraker

In the following guide, I have assumed that the other drive letter is D, if that is not the case, replace the drive letter as appropriate . . .

1.

Move all your User Library folders to D:

Open Windows File Explorer

In the right hand pane, right click your Documents folder and choose Properties

Select the Location tab

In the Location box, type D:\Documents then click Apply and Ok

When that move completes, do the same for Pictures, Videos and Music

Each time, provide a new folder location, for example, Pictures will go to D:\Pictures

2.

Move the location of all future content downloaded from the Microsoft Store

Open the Settings App (gear icon on your Start Menu)

Go to System - Storage - Change where new content is saved:

Change all options you find there to D

3.

If you are a Steam Gamer

Stop all processes associated with Steam

Move the Steam folder to your D drive manually

Then open the Steam Control Panel and point that to the new location

4.

Please Note: this should ideally be done before you begin installing any software

For 3rd party applications, some will allow you to choose an installation location, for those, create a new Program files folder on your D drive, then for each application, create a new sub-folder of that folder

Other 3rd party applications will not allow you to change the installation location, and there is no safe way to move those to your D drive . . .

I'm sorry, not too familiar with the new computers coming out.  Computer does not have a disk hard drive.  It has the 256 SSD drive instead of the usual disk hard drive.   I don't want to  use the SSD drive for any new programs I might install.  I want to install new programs on an external drive but don't know how to do it so computer knows where to put the new programs files.. Hope this makes sense.   thanks for your response..

Hi quailbraker

Please provide more detail, do you mean there is absolutely no storage in that new PC?

If that is the case, it is very unusual, all PC's need internal storage, you cannot install Windows onto an external drive, you will need to remove that drive from the external casing and use that in your new PC to install Windows and your applications onto . . .

You will need to install Windows on internal hard drive , so you will need to purchase internal hard drive and install Windows and then you could start using Windows and install programs.