Splitting drive before booting win 10

[xxx68]

Hello, I want to put my current SSD to the new pc. if i split drive to two halves (C:) and (D:) now in windows drive manager, can I install windows 10 to the created half during boot ? Is it going to be recognised as two halves lets say (C:) and (D:) or as single drive during boot? I would like to do so in order to keep my installed games. THX

[RejZoR]

Yes, if you have your drive split in half, you can install Windows on C partition and everything on D will remain there. It's how I have my system for over 15 years. It makes clean reinstallation of Windows such a quick task it's not even worth debugging problems. Just run Windows from USB, delete all system partitions except D (Win10 makes like 4 of them, 3 of them are hidden), create new partition and install to C. Works like a charm. This way I don't have to redownload hundreds of gigabytes of games, I just install Steam and GOG Galaxy to same location and all the games get imported directly. 5 minutes for what would be hours of redownloading. It's just a smarter way.

[xxx68]

2 minutes ago, RejZoR said:

Yes, if you have your drive split in half, you can install Windows on C partition and everything on D will remain there. It's how I have my system for over 15 years. It makes clean reinstallation of Windows such a quick task it's not even worth debugging problems. Just run Windows from USB, delete all system partitions except D (Win10 makes like 4 of them, 3 of them are hidden), create new partition and install to C. Works like a charm. This way I don't have to redownload hundreds of gigabytes of games, I just install Steam and GOG Galaxy to same location and all the games get imported directly. 5 minutes for what would be hours of redownloading. It's just a smarter way.

Awesome. Thanks for the response

[RejZoR]

Just be careful when clearing partitions during Windows 10 install because the labels are a bit weird there and don't have letters, they have different designations, but do have partition labels you might be using (renamed partitions/drives). It's smart to label partitions as SYSTEM and GAMES or something similar, so you'll know you can only delete one named "SYSTEM" and don't touch the one named "GAMES".