Itunes wont download to the right hard drive

tried installing itunes by changing the install to a specified folder on a hard drive, but it installs to my 16 gb SSD running windows 7, 64-bit. im running out of space and quickly need it on my HDD any ideas?

iTunes itself only takes up about 125mb.
In Edit > Preferences > Advanced the media folder can be directed to any other location accessible from your computer.
Are you sure that you need to move iTunes off the SSD?

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