Mass Storage Migration

Vermilion · August 11, 2014

Alright, so right now in my system, I have about 3TBs of data across three drives (and a 120GB SS boot drive).

I am somehow running low on space. I don't know how. It doesn't really matter.

I finally got around to purchasing an additional WD Black drive which has 3TBs of space, and when it gets here, I want to start moving stuff over to it, but only certain things. I don't want to move my iTunes library, for instance, because then relocating it leaves me with a bunch of duplicates and it is just such a pain to fix it all. I know, the easy solution is to not use iTunes, but I've used it for so long now that I just don't want to bother getting a better one.

So, while I can take care of Steam games and non-registry dependent stuff like photos and videos, I was wondering how I should take care of all the other programs that aren't controlled by something on my boot drive (Steam, Origin, UPlay, etc.).

Is there a way to do mass registry edits?

Like, moving over everything from the 1TB WD Black drive I have, and then doing like, a find and replace on everything located under the E:/ drive to whatever the new drive ends up being named? Or could I move everything over to the new drive, and then just change the name to E:/?

But then I'd have to worry about what to do about the stuff on the D:/ and G:/ drives that needs to be moved, so I guess I'm definitely looking for some kind of mass regedit thing.

I've tried Googling and found some stuff, though mostly the results are looking for Mass Effect registry edits. The most relevant result was to some Windows systinternal download section or something. That was by searching for [mass regedit]. I also tried searching for [mass regedit -"mass effect"], and didn't really get anything, though my Google skills may be incorrect, there. I figure at least a few people here should probably have dealt with something similar and would know a good way of going about it.