Problems with storage on your device? So you can change the unit determined by default
One of the basic aspects of Windows is the one that refers to the installation or storage drive on our computers And who doesn&39;t Have you ever had to decide if you wanted to install (or store content) on drive C or some other drive (D used to be the most common). And it is that it was not often two disks (sometimes yes) but a single partitioned unit."
We found a drive for the system that contained on the one hand the hardware-specific files needed to start Windows (Ntldr, Boot.ini and Ntdetect.com) and that could also contain a startup share that contained the Windows operating system files (by default, in the WINDOWS folder) and its support files (by default, in the WINDOWS\System32 folder). And through the free zone to store content
This duality (data vs. system) however, with time and with the improvement of storage capacities, does not make much sense. It is not interesting or convenient to have the data (images, video, music…) stored on the same drive as the system filesIn fact, in Windows 10 you can very easily change the different units in which to store our content.
"A few simple steps that, as in so many other cases, start with the need to enter the Settingsof the team."
And once inside, access the folder (tab, location…) System."
Within it we will look for the link that is titled Storage."
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And so you don't get lost, these are the steps to follow in a list:
- "Enter Device Settings"
- "Access System"
- "Enter Storage"
- Select the desired location in each section
In this way we can determine in which partition or unit we are going to save our data in order to improve the performance of the equipment and I pass the security of our data by not mixing it with the system files.
A situation similar to what we can find in recent computers where traditional (HDD) and solid-state (SSD) storage are combinedso that the first is usually used as a location to store large amounts of data (music, video, images or programs that are rarely used) leaving the SSD storage (generally more expensive and limited) for the system and the usual programs, since it offers a much higher access speed.
