BTW it was answered by Jetster
It was pretty simple and straight forward but people can miss the simplest things. His answer received "
nakeDoctor,
manofthem and
2 others say thanks." So i'd say this post was helpful.
yes but more help to get it right would have been welcome by most other people with the same question but not you ...
but you bothered more about "what's a HDD" "what's a SSD" than rather reading recommendation instead of keeping on a un-optimal way, don't worry... i was like you before ...
and YES those question (since you already know what is a SSD or a HDD ... i hope so otherwise it's really sad ... ) are trolling.
Last but not least I don't have steam so I can't set up an automatic directory with it.
you can do it with all that has an installation executable ... you can also set it up in windows 10's storages options (AKA the picture i had in the post where you quoted only the 1st half of the post) , heck you can also do it with nearly any programs without messing up with regedit ( i can do it ... you can do it ... otherwise it would be strange) i did not only talk about STEAM but you just read what you want and don't even consider if we give you a better alternative ...
btw Jetster 1st answer was in the general direction taken by all the other that tried to help, which is the one you thanked
They are many ways. The easiest if use the windows disk and act like you are installing. Custom install and then delete the partitions. The just shut the power off or create another clean partition
You can also use Diskpart
You can use a Linux live disk
But I would install Windows on the SSD, then the few programs you need. Games you might want on a separate drive
The biggest advantage of an SSD is a fast start up
oh btw (again) if you delete a a partition containing windows you will have to re install all soft and programs that where on the SSD so in the end a OS reinstall on SSD would enable you to install soft and games on the HDD without using regedit, by specifying directly the drive where you want to install them, while keeping the advantage of a SSD for your OS... but ... that's only a recommendation
off.