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HELP - Boot Drive becoming Full.

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1)Create corresponding folders on new drive (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc)

2)Open My Computer

  a)Right click folder (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc)

  b)Left click properties

  c)Click Location tab

  d)Set location to new drive path (E:\Documents for example)

  e)Click OK or Apply

3)Either cut or shift+click to move files to corresponding folder on new drive.

 

You can also create a Programs folder on the new drive and install your games there.  That is how I have mine set up.

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Hey all,

 

My Boot drive, ssd, is becoming full from games etc. I don't want it to become full; I would like to move Users (Basically move over my my documents, roaming, downloads etc) to my new drive so that it doesn't wear down my number of writes to the ssd or take up to space. I have tried the "Send to" but it doesn't work it just copies the file over. Please Help.....

 

Thnx in advance,

Brit,

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1)Create corresponding folders on new drive (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc)

2)Open My Computer

  a)Right click folder (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc)

  b)Left click properties

  c)Click Location tab

  d)Set location to new drive path (E:\Documents for example)

  e)Click OK or Apply

3)Either cut or shift+click to move files to corresponding folder on new drive.

 

You can also create a Programs folder on the new drive and install your games there.  That is how I have mine set up.

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1)Create corresponding folders on new drive (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc)

2)Open My Computer

  a)Right click folder (Documents, Downloads, Pictures, etc)

  b)Left click properties

  c)Click Location tab

  d)Set location to new drive path (E:\Documents for example)

  e)Click OK or Apply

3)Either cut or shift+click to move files to corresponding folder on new drive.

 

You can also create a Programs folder on the new drive and install your games there.  That is how I have mine set up.

Thanks man, This seems to have worked now i have changed some of chromes settings so that all downloads go straight to my hdd. Thanks again. Does moving Roaming work or does it mess up the paths of programs?

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Thanks man, This seems to have worked now i have changed some of chromes settings so that all downloads go straight to my hdd. Thanks again. Does moving Roaming work or does it mess up the paths of programs?

 

 

I would keep folders that hold temp/roaming data on the C drive as it is trivial data capacity along with some programs/software will just recreate that folder in the original location.

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