Step 1: Click on the Create Bootable StoreMI button after you open the StoreMI application.

Step 2: Transform an existing boot drive into a StoreMI Tiered Drive.

Note: The correct drives will usually be automatically selected if you choose Auto Drive Select. Otherwise, you will be prompted to choose which drive goes to the fast tier (your SSD) and which drive goes to the slow tier (your HDD) if you choose to manually choose the drives. Don’t fret if you see a grayed out drive because it is either used as a data drive or partition.

Step 3: Click on the Create button, follow the instructions, and reboot the system when prompted to.

Step 4: When Windows boots, verify that the system has correctly booted from the StoreMI by opening Disk Manager (by typing in diskmgmt.msc via Command Prompt) and to also access the volume expand capability of Windows.

Note: If the expansion of the boot volume was not automatically completed, right click on the C: partition in the Disk Manager and click on Extend Volume to manually expand the boot volumes.

IMPORTANT: It should also be noted that the StoreMI only supports a fast tier capacity of 256GB. If you have an SSD that doesn’t have an operating system with over 256GB of storage, the remaining unused capacity will be presented as an additional virtual SSD that you can format and use as temporary storage.

Additionally, you can also get the $59.99 package by Enmotus FuzeDrive™ for AMD Ryzen™ if you wish to use up to 1TB of storage as your fast tier drive.

But remember that choosing the Remove StoreMI option also removes the additional virtual SSD that is used as temporary storage so make sure you back everything in this virtual SSD before performing the removal process.