Dude You are a boss. I have been looking all over the internet for something that explained just this, but they all either used third party software that didn't really do what I wanted or they just didn't work. Please keep up the good work, I loved this video.
Thanks brother! I started playing WoW again and installed it on my older mechanical drive as my SSD was getting full. I noticed a significant slowdown so I purchased a new SSD and didn't want the hassle of reinstalling the game. I knew there was a way to do this but couldn't remember for the life of me what the commands were. You saved me a lot of grief.
@@bandito_burrito1819 fakk no, this ain't simple at all. I watched a vid earlier about moving games and it didn't work, I can still play it but now I have 2 warzone 1 games with each 98 GB of storage on two ssd's. I guess you can't move games using that method on battle net.
Hi Stephen, just seen this, sat all the way through even though I was bamboozled, absolutely fascinating, must be a geek in me somewhere... Was actually looking for a way to copy Photoshop and Premiere from one computer to another. No idea if this is possible or not. After watching your video I'm betting your the guy that can answer this. Knowledge is power, thank you.
i actually stopped caring about how to move my files another way and started being REALLY interested in the robocopy function and all the technical stuff you went over.
As there is a lot of fluff within his speaking, he did provide the answer I was looking for, and he did make sure to explain everything quite nicely. Overall a helpful video :)
I thought it was an awesome tutorial - instead of complaining make your own video. I just appreciate that someone is taking his time to help me out! Thank you so much for sharing. Has anyone tried this with programs like MS Office? Any specific program I should not move? I have Camtasia, SnagIt, a few games from Steam - which I am not too concerned. I am more concerned about tools like those I listed, that I use frequently. My SSD is so full that I cannot even update my Windows 10 or MS Office, or anything else for that matter. Any advice would be appreciated.
Everyone's complaining about the explanations/talking too much. I personally like it. It's really useful to know what you are doing so you can easily troubleshoot in case your system setup is not exactly the same as his. I don't want to mindlessly follow a step by step tutorial which I don't have info on each step. You could easily brick a system that way. Great tutorial dude!! Keep up the good work.
Great video ... good explanation on a fairly advanced procedure ... had similar complaint with my 50GB SSD and 500GB HD (barely used) ... was afraid to touch windows programs files till this video ... thanks so much!!!!
i think you did a wonderful job at showing and explaining. ignore all these people who dont have the patience and basically just want a program to do the work you are showing them. Thank you for the great information. I has helped me a great deal!
Hi, thanks for the video :) it really worked, i wanted to move Euro Truck Simulator 2 from my C drive to my USB stick and it worked! so now i have enough space on my Pc. -I liked the video!
Brilliant timing - just when I needed this! For me, it would be even better if you halved the speech speed - but I probably needed to go through it a couple of times. Thanks!
thanks alot for sharing this info, I was able to move an ever growing 90+GB data folder from my app data folder which maxed out my 200GB SS drive and move it to a 3TB HDD and create the junction you described. Thanks again! Subscribed!
Fantastic video , I build online training, this was good and simplistic. You have got to remember lot's of children watch how to to things too and the have a lack of control on their baser thoughts.
Thank you! I couldn't play league of legends for 2 weeks now because I couldn't update because my d drive was full so i had to transfer the file to my c drive but i didn't know how. Thankfully i saw this. I subbed THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
I think that the error is because you're doing it in another hard disk that isn't the C: hard disk, i mean you're passing games or programs for example from D: hard disk to a external hard disk, i think that this command only serves to pass from C: to another hard disk, because im doing from D: to external HDD n i have that error, so i think that the solution is to pass from D: to C: and then C: to the one you want, i can't ensure you that this gonna work, im gonna try this possible solution that i thought, if you know already the solution , can you explain to me, please!!... Well.... im gonna prove the option that i thought, if it works i'll make you know, regards!!
so glad i watched this! games nowadays are 100GB each i would go insane if i have to download those again! see my games moving at 500MB/s between my 860evo is so satisfying!
Watched the first time...confused the shit out of my little brain and got frustrated...however watched a 2nd time and understood fully even though I dont fully understand syntax. Good video
How to Move a Game or Program to Another Drive Without Reinstalling by Stephen Becker but every time he says 'drive' the video gets faster. no really it's a good video
Hey so once I get to the part where I create the junction, using the mklink given in the description I get an error saying the syntax of the command is incorrect, when I try going into the c drive program files and use the shortened command for mklink that you used in the video, I get a error saying invalid switch - "Programs". Any help is appreciated!
Thank you for this video, all of the info and explanations you gave helped me a lot, it was all very clear to me and I am fairly new to all of this :0)
I assume if you don't have the new location drive attached, you don't get any errors unless attempting to run the program. I'm trying to move a program that insists on installing on C: (welcome to the 1980s Steinberg Cubase...) onto a USB SSD, and, furthermore, am making it so that I can grab-n-go with the USB SSD to run it also from my laptop mapped as the same drive letter, so will need to create the Junction there also... This should work well to let me travel with this software when I need to.
Hello, thank you for the video! So just to clarify, by using this method I can move my OS to the SSD and my Steam Games folder. I need everything else on the HDD because I will barely use the other files. (My SSD is not large enough to copy the entire HDD to it)
I just use a program called Steammover. It does all of this for you on its own. Just google it, and it isn't only for Steam games either. I needed to move Eve Online and Battlefield 5 to some SSDs from a standard HDD, which was super old and slow as shit. Took a bit to do, as they are large files, and it worked just fine. Games launched perfectly fine, maybe a few passwords need to be entered, which is insignificant, compared to all the steps this guy is setting up.
Just in case anyone else gets hung up, if the name of the link (where he put hearthstone) has internal spaces, you will need to wrap if with internal quotes or you will get a syntax error.
Hey Stephen, i gotta question for you. So I have my SSD and my Hard Drive right and i have all the steam games basically in my SSD but i have too many games in my SSD which makes my SSD full and now want to install others games but i can't change the location of my downloading from my SSD drive to My HardDrive?, when i click on my hard drive there is no file there . so can i just copy my programme file and programe filex86 and put in my Hard drive and install my steam games there or how should i do that?
My question is this - for a game like The Sims with expansion packs and such, would I have to do this with every new expansion pack to keep things functional? Great tutorial, btw!
Hi Steve, great video. I have FSX in my old computer with lots of ad-nos and tweaks done over the years that I don’t want to loose. I’ve tried different ways to set it up in my new computer, including re-installing the game, but none of them had worked. I haven’t tried your method, but it seems reliable and efficient. My question is: If I remove the hard drive from old computer and put it in the new one and do the process you are showing in the video, would I be able to take back the hard drive to the old computer without compromising the junction? The reason is that I want to sell the old computer, because I don’t have room to keep it Thanks in advance for your comments
This is very helpful. However, it is 2018, would these be the same steps to move all Microsoft apps to the external drive (1TB)? The intention is to "Refresh" the pc and it states it will delete all Microsoft Programs. Therefore I need to move them. I did attempt through the Settings (Win10) but the move option is greyed. Back to the question above :D.
My game doesn't show up until I run it and then places a folder into my documents. I've tried linking my Origins [x86] to my HDD but the game which is The Sims 4 still saves in my documents folder. I want move and link that folder to HDD. However, is there way to move or link multiple files i.e. data like the save and mods folders to Hdd instead from the documents folders to the hdd . I tried your method but last part it says my syntax is incorrect.
I've followed exactly every step up until moving the files of a torrent downloader called popcorn time. Unfortunatley files are being skipped and none are being copied so I can't really continue and create a link
Do you think it's ok to move SMART notebook and all of it's assisting stuff to another drive? I used it when I was teaching, it is farely big, and I'd like to have it for just in case later, but don't want it on my laptop now. SMART products were installed with this app and they take part for example in Word (as far as I saw) and propbably other programmes but I don't need them anyway.
so im trying to copy file from c drive to my d drive and it works, it copies it but it doesn’t get removed from the c drive and i copied the command perfectly and im even using the same path you’re using at 14:44 im trying to move minecraft launcher
Hey. so i followed to the T and it only moved 100mb of my game folder over. checked the new destination and it has all the folders but not the bulk of the game (62gb). effectively it looks like it pulled just the folders and no data within any of them this was my command "c:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries" s:\programs\Roberts Space Industries /sec /move /e didnt transfer all the game over - only copying directories and not files!!! HELP PLEASE :)
Thanks for the video man. I was looking for this very type of program. Questions for you though. I hade a 2 drive setup (SSD 1tb running W7 and a 5xx Hdd running W10. This is what I'm thinking, tell me if I'm wrong. I'd like to have W10 on the ssd with these programs I can't replace. But right now that's where they're located. I'm thinking I need to transfer them to the hdd then clone whole drive over to the ssd. I had some authentication issues when I installed 10 and I'm nervous about messing everything up trying to make it better.
Thanks for the tutorial but I'm curious, what about all the other associated files and folders that may be in other places on the drive? I think that's what has given me issues in the past.
@Stephen Becker If I used SymMover to transfer my programs I don't get the same security properties as the default drive. How can I make it so that the security properties are the same. Also, using SymMover creates this pathway This PC/Data(X:)/SymMover/C/Program Files (x86). Should I make a separate Program Files out side of C or should I just leave it as it is and use that path way to install all my programs from now on?
I got a question. At some point you said "i am playing this game (hearthstone) a lot so i am going to move it back to C: drive later. Does that mean that any programs moved to another drive dont work properly and u just save space temporarily until u need to use them again?
thanks for great video - can you tell me how to transfer only 3 programs from adobe cc - photoshop, premiere and after effects? - or is it possible to transfer the entire cc set at once?
Hello, i don't want to bother you with my whole story, but for my question to make sense i have to tell a part of it. First of all, I'm noob into computer (though i want to improve), i have build myself a new gaming PC, got SSD for OS (Windows 10 essentially), huge hdd for games. I don't have space for games at all on my ssd drive, where my program files (x86) currently is. So far i figured out that it is pretty difficult, if even possible to move it onto anouther drive. in theory, if i was to do, only the first step shown here (robocopy "C:\Program Files (x86)" I:\Programs /sec), it would basically make that "link" as you explained earlier in video, and if i was then to install, let's say steam, into program files, on my I drive, it would still be in program files file, yet it wouldn't eat up my SSD drive space, is that correct?
I have a folder on an external HD with all my games installed on it. I want to move all that to a new HD and disconnect my existing HD. 1. Can that be done? 2. Can I use the robocopy command on the whole folder or do I have to do it for individual game folder?
Thanks for the vid! Here is my issue/question: I am still using Windows 7. I have 3 drives, 1 64GB SSD, one mechanical that is half a TB and another SSD at 256. My 64 SSD is my "C" drive and has Windows and alot of other files, some games, videos, Steam, etc that I never paid attention to. Now my C drive is so full my comp is having a heart attack. I would, ideally, like to move everything off of my C, except Windows, and move the rest to my other SSD which is barely being used. Is what you showed here the best solution to get this resolution or something else? Or, even worse, not possible?? Any insight is appreciated and thanks again for sharing!
So to clarify: I have a hard drive from my old computer that I want to move programs from and put on my new computer without having to reinstall. If I use robocopy, would I need to keep that old hard drive connected once I moved a program over or would everything be re-pointed and I could disconnect the old drive? I don't want to keep a hard drive connected just to use a program.
very nice video an usefull. I do have a client PC with 40mb left on primary partition, so I was breaking my head trying to free space on C drive. I may try it your way but I was thinking to use option /D instead of /J could you explain the diference between both?
If you created a junction to a program file (like in the video), and let's say your computer (not hard drive) crashed. If you got a new computer and remade junctions from the hard drive files, would the programs still work (and have the same data) like they did on the first computer?
The drive I keep my games on is circling the drain. Can I move my games from that drive to my new drive and still be able to run it when the old drive finally craps out?
I want to backup my iphone, but Itunes and the apple folder are on my ssd. I removed Itunes and installed it onto my mechanical hard drive; however, it still says I do not have enough space to back up my iphone even though my mechanical hard drive has more than enough space. Any ideas?
So, I have an msi laptop with 128GB C: solid state drive that is 90% full running all MS Office programs, AutoCad, Fusion 360 and others. But, I installed Android Studio 4.0, SDK, AVD, and other related programs on my 500GB D: drive. However, the install somehow partitioned the software so that 10GB were installed on the C: drive and about 12GB installed on the D: drive. So, I uninstalled all of the Android Studio software. I can't uninstall the existing programs, like MS Office programs and re-install on my D: drive because they came packaged with the laptop and I don't want to pay for another set. Per your video, if my original Android Studio 4.0 on my D: drive installed half of its program on the C: drive and I use your '"robocopy" method to move the C: drive Android Studio program components under C:\Program Data, C:\ Users\JT\.android, C:\Users\JT\.AndroidStudio 4.0, etc. , will this work?
I tried it exactly as you said and it didn't work. Do I have to uncheck the read only to make this work? I'm trying to move Smith Micro Poser from c drive to d drive. Thanks
i don't get why everyone's complaining about the explanation in this video. You're the ones needing help, so you need to at least know what you are doing before you do it.
Yo stephen, im trying to move League of Legends game. but for some reason when i move the files it doesnt move some files and im trying to understand why is that. it wouldnt move the application launcher for the game. thats just one of many.
does this mean I have to have my other hard drive connected to my pc to make the moved programs work? (Aka since I assume it requires the Junction (shortcut) Function?)
well yes. it needs to be connected to the computer with the programs you want to move. Unless you have some sort of wireless sata connectors. (they dont exist)
if i do this to my programs in windows 7 and update my computer to windows 10 then reconnect my hard drive and follow the same steps you did to load the programs are the programs still going to work on windows 10? thanks
how do i copy the program files from C:\ to E:\ ? Lol what the folder name would be in E:\? I mean I want to copy both program files and (x86). right now is over writing it or deleting which ever was there first. Also a lot of the folder containing spaces how do I make the new copied folder contain the same folder name?
Just install hard link shell. Google. Freely use explorer to move anything you want then right click pick link source, go to the same folder you moved it from, (C:\programs...) right click make junction/other options. done. This is command prompt training.
Steve, do you know how I can run a game that was installed on a different Windows OS. In my PC I have dual OS, Win 7 and Win 10. I would like to play the games I installed in Win7 using Win10. When I run them they throw .dll files missing errors which I would expect. Is there a quick way to fix it or I need to do the painful re-installs again.
this won't always work (it might!), because the program, or windows (or both) create files that aren't in the game's folder. Moving just the game folder would not work. Maybe you can if you are able to find the files I talked about, but the method in this video is easier.
"some games are as big as 15 gb" as i am installing a 100gb game...really shows how far our computers have come lol
That's also mostly due to game companies not bothering to develop or use decent compression software
TBF
100 gb... thats half of my f drive
Which game is 100gb? Name it!
@@rieanaskar6732 Red Dead Redemption 2 for starters. That game is well over a hundred
Grand Theft Auto V
8:00 skip the blabla
EXCACLY!
A hero we don't deserve.
thank you sire, you have been saluted
Thank you so much, too much talking!!!
He’s making me ANGRY
Dude
You are a boss.
I have been looking all over the internet for something that explained just this, but they all either used third party software that didn't really do what I wanted or they just didn't work. Please keep up the good work, I loved this video.
same bro
Why are people so mad because he's talking so much?! It is useful information .you people should learn from it.
on god man lmao millenals have no patience and i am one id know
i agree. but maybe if he could make a shorter video or smth to please vvery1
I'm not here for a computer course.
I couldn’t care less
It's not useful
I came here for one specific reason which is what the title is saying
I don't care about anything else he has to say
Thanks brother! I started playing WoW again and installed it on my older mechanical drive as my SSD was getting full. I noticed a significant slowdown so I purchased a new SSD and didn't want the hassle of reinstalling the game. I knew there was a way to do this but couldn't remember for the life of me what the commands were. You saved me a lot of grief.
as far as i know besides these commands, aomei is a really nice tool to help transfer programs from c to d
I thought it was a great tutorial and explained a lot. The people saying you talked to much don't want to learn.
A little patience go a long ways
@@bandito_burrito1819 fakk no, this ain't simple at all. I watched a vid earlier about moving games and it didn't work, I can still play it but now I have 2 warzone 1 games with each 98 GB of storage on two ssd's. I guess you can't move games using that method on battle net.
Hi Stephen, just seen this, sat all the way through even though I was bamboozled, absolutely fascinating, must be a geek in me somewhere... Was actually looking for a way to copy Photoshop and Premiere from one computer to another. No idea if this is possible or not. After watching your video I'm betting your the guy that can answer this.
Knowledge is power, thank you.
i actually stopped caring about how to move my files another way and started being REALLY interested in the robocopy function and all the technical stuff you went over.
As there is a lot of fluff within his speaking, he did provide the answer I was looking for, and he did make sure to explain everything quite nicely. Overall a helpful video :)
I thought it was an awesome tutorial - instead of complaining make your own video. I just appreciate that someone is taking his time to help me out! Thank you so much for sharing.
Has anyone tried this with programs like MS Office? Any specific program I should not move? I have Camtasia, SnagIt, a few games from Steam - which I am not too concerned. I am more concerned about tools like those I listed, that I use frequently.
My SSD is so full that I cannot even update my Windows 10 or MS Office, or anything else for that matter. Any advice would be appreciated.
Everyone's complaining about the explanations/talking too much. I personally like it. It's really useful to know what you are doing so you can easily troubleshoot in case your system setup is not exactly the same as his. I don't want to mindlessly follow a step by step tutorial which I don't have info on each step. You could easily brick a system that way. Great tutorial dude!! Keep up the good work.
Great video ... good explanation on a fairly advanced procedure ... had similar complaint with my 50GB SSD and 500GB HD (barely used) ... was afraid to touch windows programs files till this video ... thanks so much!!!!
This worked for me, great tutorial, so you just need to prepare those stuff and follow his steps.
i think you did a wonderful job at showing and explaining. ignore all these people who dont have the patience and basically just want a program to do the work you are showing them. Thank you for the great information. I has helped me a great deal!
I have a question please can you help, I want to keep the OS on my SSD but the data on HDD, how to do this?
43 kids disliked the video because they can't open a cmd in admin rights
LMAO!
That, or have very little patience. Might be late for their rally :\
Lol for Roblox
No because it keeps saying invalid prompt smart ass
@@97tanuki
Yes... It's says invalid prompt when you didn't open cmd with admin rights cause then it's not cd in c:\windows\system32\
Hi, thanks for the video :) it really worked, i wanted to move Euro Truck Simulator 2 from my C drive to my USB stick and it worked! so now i have enough space on my Pc.
-I liked the video!
Brilliant timing - just when I needed this! For me, it would be even better if you halved the speech speed - but I probably needed to go through it a couple of times. Thanks!
thanks alot for sharing this info, I was able to move an ever growing 90+GB data folder from my app data folder which maxed out my 200GB SS drive and move it to a 3TB HDD and create the junction you described. Thanks again! Subscribed!
Fantastic video , I build online training, this was good and simplistic. You have got to remember lot's of children watch how to to things too and the have a lack of control on their baser thoughts.
Excellent tutorial Stephen. Worked 100%, thanks a bunch!
Thank you! I couldn't play league of legends for 2 weeks now because I couldn't update because my d drive was full so i had to transfer the file to my c drive but i didn't know how. Thankfully i saw this. I subbed THANK YOU VERY MUCH!
When I put the last command in it says : The synatax of the command is incorrect. What do I do ? •-•
Same, I got that message on the last step when setting up the junction. Someone please help
I think that the error is because you're doing it in another hard disk that isn't the C: hard disk, i mean you're passing games or programs for example from D: hard disk to a external hard disk, i think that this command only serves to pass from C: to another hard disk, because im doing from D: to external HDD n i have that error, so i think that the solution is to pass from D: to C: and then C: to the one you want, i can't ensure you that this gonna work, im gonna try this possible solution that i thought, if you know already the solution , can you explain to me, please!!... Well.... im gonna prove the option that i thought, if it works i'll make you know, regards!!
so glad i watched this! games nowadays are 100GB each i would go insane if i have to download those again! see my games moving at 500MB/s between my 860evo is so satisfying!
Dude, this was extremely helpful. Thanks so much man.
What a legend...worked a treat. Cheers fella - nice one for the video👍
YOOOOO robocopy is sick!! i was getting tired of my m.2 getting filled up with big games like Apex. thanks so much, im subbing rn
Thanks, was able to free up space from my SSD which had gotten dangerously full!
Watched the first time...confused the shit out of my little brain and got frustrated...however watched a 2nd time and understood fully even though I dont fully understand syntax. Good video
How to Move a Game or Program to Another Drive Without Reinstalling by Stephen Becker but every time he says 'drive' the video gets faster.
no really it's a good video
So I plan to move the os to ssd so I can boot from it and save other data on hdd, I cloned successfully with partition assistant.
Thank you, very solid video. I learned quite a bit!
Hey so once I get to the part where I create the junction, using the mklink given in the description I get an error saying the syntax of the command is incorrect, when I try going into the c drive program files and use the shortened command for mklink that you used in the video, I get a error saying invalid switch - "Programs". Any help is appreciated!
I appreciate the tips even though you can talk a man to sleep you gave great info!
all this guy has is one video from 5 years ago!
his computer was so good he never needed to make another!
You are great, Stephen! Keep up the good work and thanks!
Stephen, Thank you for posting this! I feel smarter and more capable from your thorough explanation.
You're a savior Man, very well explained. It worked! Thank you!
Thank you for this video, all of the info and explanations you gave helped me a lot, it was all very clear to me and I am fairly new to all of this :0)
Do you recommend moving the Adobe Master Collection file folder suite to another drive? FYI, not including Acrobat or Reader.
You're apparently a power user; I applaud your skills.
I assume if you don't have the new location drive attached, you don't get any errors unless attempting to run the program. I'm trying to move a program that insists on installing on C: (welcome to the 1980s Steinberg Cubase...) onto a USB SSD, and, furthermore, am making it so that I can grab-n-go with the USB SSD to run it also from my laptop mapped as the same drive letter, so will need to create the Junction there also...
This should work well to let me travel with this software when I need to.
Hello, thank you for the video! So just to clarify, by using this method I can move my OS to the SSD and my Steam Games folder. I need everything else on the HDD because I will barely use the other files. (My SSD is not large enough to copy the entire HDD to it)
Thanks for this it was a great help !
I just use a program called Steammover. It does all of this for you on its own. Just google it, and it isn't only for Steam games either. I needed to move Eve Online and Battlefield 5 to some SSDs from a standard HDD, which was super old and slow as shit. Took a bit to do, as they are large files, and it worked just fine. Games launched perfectly fine, maybe a few passwords need to be entered, which is insignificant, compared to all the steps this guy is setting up.
Thank you so much, Sir! Very helpful and worked perfectly!
Just in case anyone else gets hung up, if the name of the link (where he put hearthstone) has internal spaces, you will need to wrap if with internal quotes or you will get a syntax error.
Great video -Just a quick question. Will this work for "Users" Directory Files?
using windows 11 and this was still very helpful thanks 👍
Hey Stephen, i gotta question for you. So I have my SSD and my Hard Drive right and i have all the steam games basically in my SSD but i have too many games in my SSD which makes my SSD full and now want to install others games but i can't change the location of my downloading from my SSD drive to My HardDrive?, when i click on my hard drive there is no file there . so can i just copy my programme file and programe filex86 and put in my Hard drive and install my steam games there or how should i do that?
My question is this - for a game like The Sims with expansion packs and such, would I have to do this with every new expansion pack to keep things functional? Great tutorial, btw!
I'd like to know the same
Hi Steve, great video. I have FSX in my old computer with lots of ad-nos and tweaks done over the years that I don’t want to loose. I’ve tried different ways to set it up in my new computer, including re-installing the game, but none of them had worked. I haven’t tried your method, but it seems reliable and efficient. My question is: If I remove the hard drive from old computer and put it in the new one and do the process you are showing in the video, would I be able to take back the hard drive to the old computer without compromising the junction? The reason is that I want to sell the old computer, because I don’t have room to keep it
Thanks in advance for your comments
This is very helpful. However, it is 2018, would these be the same steps to move all Microsoft apps to the external drive (1TB)? The intention is to "Refresh" the pc and it states it will delete all Microsoft Programs. Therefore I need to move them. I did attempt through the Settings (Win10) but the move option is greyed. Back to the question above :D.
My game doesn't show up until I run it and then places a folder into my documents. I've tried linking my Origins [x86] to my HDD but the game which is The Sims 4 still saves in my documents folder. I want move and link that folder to HDD. However, is there way to move or link multiple files i.e. data like the save and mods folders to Hdd instead from the documents folders to the hdd .
I tried your method but last part it says my syntax is incorrect.
This was an excellent solution, thanks very much.
Thank you. This really helped save time (:
well you wasted most of it watching this 20 min video
good video, concise, detailed.
I've followed exactly every step up until moving the files of a torrent downloader called popcorn time. Unfortunatley files are being skipped and none are being copied so I can't really continue and create a link
Do you think it's ok to move SMART notebook and all of it's assisting stuff to another drive? I used it when I was teaching, it is farely big, and I'd like to have it for just in case later, but don't want it on my laptop now. SMART products were installed with this app and they take part for example in Word (as far as I saw) and propbably other programmes but I don't need them anyway.
so im trying to copy file from c drive to my d drive and it works, it copies it but it doesn’t get removed from the c drive and i copied the command perfectly and im even using the same path you’re using at 14:44
im trying to move minecraft launcher
This video helped me solve my problem. Thank you.
Hey. so i followed to the T and it only moved 100mb of my game folder over. checked the new destination and it has all the folders but not the bulk of the game (62gb). effectively it looks like it pulled just the folders and no data within any of them
this was my command
"c:\Program Files\Roberts Space Industries" s:\programs\Roberts Space Industries /sec /move /e
didnt transfer all the game over - only copying directories and not files!!!
HELP PLEASE :)
Thanks for the video man. I was looking for this very type of program. Questions for you though. I hade a 2 drive setup (SSD 1tb running W7 and a 5xx Hdd running W10. This is what I'm thinking, tell me if I'm wrong. I'd like to have W10 on the ssd with these programs I can't replace. But right now that's where they're located. I'm thinking I need to transfer them to the hdd then clone whole drive over to the ssd. I had some authentication issues when I installed 10 and I'm nervous about messing everything up trying to make it better.
there is a way to fix adobe/Autodesk prodoct whitout reinstalleing them?
Hello, I wanted to transfer World of Warcraft to my (E:) from my (C:) but i can't manage do that can you help me?
Thanks for the tutorial but I'm curious, what about all the other associated files and folders that may be in other places on the drive? I think that's what has given me issues in the past.
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@Stephen Becker If I used SymMover to transfer my programs I don't get the same security properties as the default drive. How can I make it so that the security properties are the same. Also, using SymMover creates this pathway This PC/Data(X:)/SymMover/C/Program Files (x86). Should I make a separate Program Files out side of C or should I just leave it as it is and use that path way to install all my programs from now on?
Great video! Thanks, Stephen.
I got a question. At some point you said "i am playing this game (hearthstone) a lot so i am going to move it back to C: drive later. Does that mean that any programs moved to another drive dont work properly and u just save space temporarily until u need to use them again?
thanks for great video - can you tell me how to transfer only 3 programs from adobe cc - photoshop, premiere and after effects? - or is it possible to transfer the entire cc set at once?
Hello, i don't want to bother you with my whole story, but for my question to make sense i have to tell a part of it. First of all, I'm noob into computer (though i want to improve), i have build myself a new gaming PC, got SSD for OS (Windows 10 essentially), huge hdd for games. I don't have space for games at all on my ssd drive, where my program files (x86) currently is. So far i figured out that it is pretty difficult, if even possible to move it onto anouther drive. in theory, if i was to do, only the first step shown here (robocopy "C:\Program Files (x86)" I:\Programs /sec), it would basically make that "link" as you explained earlier in video, and if i was then to install, let's say steam, into program files, on my I drive, it would still be in program files file, yet it wouldn't eat up my SSD drive space, is that correct?
I have a folder on an external HD with all my games installed on it. I want to move all that to a new HD and disconnect my existing HD.
1. Can that be done?
2. Can I use the robocopy command on the whole folder or do I have to do it for individual game folder?
Thanks for the vid! Here is my issue/question: I am still using Windows 7. I have 3 drives, 1 64GB SSD, one mechanical that is half a TB and another SSD at 256. My 64 SSD is my "C" drive and has Windows and alot of other files, some games, videos, Steam, etc that I never paid attention to. Now my C drive is so full my comp is having a heart attack. I would, ideally, like to move everything off of my C, except Windows, and move the rest to my other SSD which is barely being used. Is what you showed here the best solution to get this resolution or something else? Or, even worse, not possible?? Any insight is appreciated and thanks again for sharing!
So to clarify: I have a hard drive from my old computer that I want to move programs from and put on my new computer without having to reinstall. If I use robocopy, would I need to keep that old hard drive connected once I moved a program over or would everything be re-pointed and I could disconnect the old drive? I don't want to keep a hard drive connected just to use a program.
very nice video an usefull. I do have a client PC with 40mb left on primary partition, so I was breaking my head trying to free space on C drive. I may try it your way but I was thinking to use option /D instead of /J could you explain the diference between both?
thank you so so much!!! You got one of my most used program deleted, and now i cant download it again!!!!!
I've moved most of my folders from SSD to another disk. Thank you. Robocopy acts weird. I use Teracopy Portable with FreeCommander Portable.
If you created a junction to a program file (like in the video), and let's say your computer (not hard drive) crashed. If you got a new computer and remade junctions from the hard drive files, would the programs still work (and have the same data) like they did on the first computer?
The drive I keep my games on is circling the drain. Can I move my games from that drive to my new drive and still be able to run it when the old drive finally craps out?
hey stephen i was wondering if i could substitute the program folder with the roaming one and repeat the whole procedure
I want to backup my iphone, but Itunes and the apple folder are on my ssd. I removed Itunes and installed it onto my mechanical hard drive; however, it still says I do not have enough space to back up my iphone even though my mechanical hard drive has more than enough space. Any ideas?
So, I have an msi laptop with 128GB C: solid state drive that is 90% full running all MS Office programs, AutoCad, Fusion 360 and others. But, I installed Android Studio 4.0, SDK, AVD, and other related programs on my 500GB D: drive. However, the install somehow partitioned the software so that 10GB were installed on the C: drive and about 12GB installed on the D: drive. So, I uninstalled all of the Android Studio software. I can't uninstall the existing programs, like MS Office programs and re-install on my D: drive because they came packaged with the laptop and I don't want to pay for another set.
Per your video, if my original Android Studio 4.0 on my D: drive installed half of its program on the C: drive and I use your '"robocopy" method to move the C: drive Android Studio program components under C:\Program Data, C:\ Users\JT\.android, C:\Users\JT\.AndroidStudio 4.0, etc. , will this work?
Thank you very kindly sir! This helped a lot!
I tried it exactly as you said and it didn't work. Do I have to uncheck the read only to make this work? I'm trying to move Smith Micro Poser from c drive to d drive. Thanks
i don't get why everyone's complaining about the explanation in this video. You're the ones needing help, so you need to at least know what you are doing before you do it.
So? Question, why can't you just copy the folder and paste it on the new drive (don't really care about security right now).
Hey, CoD 16 here, which needs 175g...... that used to be the whole databases of a midsize company!
too complex for me, an easier way is to use third party tool
Yo stephen, im trying to move League of Legends game. but for some reason when i move the files it doesnt move some files and im trying to understand why is that. it wouldnt move the application launcher for the game. thats just one of many.
if a program i want to transfer is not at the program files (x86) then how do i move them?
does this mean I have to have my other hard drive connected to my pc to make the moved programs work? (Aka since I assume it requires the Junction (shortcut) Function?)
well yes. it needs to be connected to the computer with the programs you want to move. Unless you have some sort of wireless sata connectors. (they dont exist)
Duh obviously it’s not wireless •-•
if i do this to my programs in windows 7 and update my computer to windows 10 then reconnect my hard drive and follow the same steps you did to load the programs are the programs still going to work on windows 10? thanks
how do i copy the program files from C:\ to E:\ ? Lol what the folder name would be in E:\? I mean I want to copy both program files and (x86). right now is over writing it or deleting which ever was there first. Also a lot of the folder containing spaces how do I make the new copied folder contain the same folder name?
Just install hard link shell. Google. Freely use explorer to move anything you want then right click pick link source, go to the same folder you moved it from, (C:\programs...) right click make junction/other options. done. This is command prompt training.
Please help, I want to move the software folder from local disc E to System C, how do I do that, thank you
Steve, do you know how I can run a game that was installed on a different Windows OS. In my PC I have dual OS, Win 7 and Win 10. I would like to play the games I installed in Win7 using Win10. When I run them they throw .dll files missing errors which I would expect. Is there a quick way to fix it or I need to do the painful re-installs again.
Go to the other drive and run the game.
cant we simply cut paste it?
Geometry Dash Bryan what if it's a small game? 1 GB?
this won't always work (it might!), because the program, or windows (or both) create files that aren't in the game's folder. Moving just the game folder would not work. Maybe you can if you are able to find the files I talked about, but the method in this video is easier.
I figured it out! Great Tute. Even with all the talking.