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Windows 10 1903 Onto New Drive

AManWithPlan
By AManWithPlan
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Dear LTT Forum,

 

I have a fairly non-unique issue. My C drive is full because all games want to save to C instead of to their respective installation drive.

 

I'm upgrading to an M.2 1TB drive which will be my new C drive. What I want to do is to begin the update from my normal C drive, but write everything to the new M.2 drive so at the end of the Windows 10 1903 May 2019 update I have one completely unaltered original C drive and one freshly updated new C drive (on the M.2) with all of my applications and programs still intact.

 

I don't trust reinstallation software and was wondering if there was a way to both upgrade and preserve original. I can always do back up, etc, but why spend the time if I already have 2 drives to work with, right?

Thoughts?
 

-Aman

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That will be helpful.

 

Say you want to get rid of the USERS folder, since all apps is storing to the folder.

You make copy all the files in the users folder to another drive.

And then with symlink you redirrect the folder to the copy so you can delete the original to free up space.

Now everytime you access the folder it will be using the copied folder.

 

 

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