How to transfer programs from SSD to another Harddrive on same system

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LarryDosh

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My ssd or c drive is almost full. I have another drive with more room on it . So I want to make space on my SSd. This is the Drive with Windows 10 on it.
 
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It's usually not as simple to just move a program, reinstalling and choosing a different location would be your best option. Many programs will still take up some space under your users profile which resides under C: (the Windows partition) and those files will still not move, unless you manually move them and hack the registry a bit. Nothing that I recommend doing simply for moving programs.

What and how many programs are we talking about anyway? The space-hoggers are usually games and personal files. The personal files are easy to move around and I'd start with that.

kanewolf

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It will depend on what is filling it up. You can probably reinstall applications with a custom install to get them onto the other disk. Some game files can be moved without a reinstall.

There is no universal answer to your problem. You will have to find out what is using space and then come back with additional question(s).
 

XistenZ

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It's usually not as simple to just move a program, reinstalling and choosing a different location would be your best option. Many programs will still take up some space under your users profile which resides under C: (the Windows partition) and those files will still not move, unless you manually move them and hack the registry a bit. Nothing that I recommend doing simply for moving programs.

What and how many programs are we talking about anyway? The space-hoggers are usually games and personal files. The personal files are easy to move around and I'd start with that.
 
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