How to Transfer One drive Program file data to another

[Himanshu Panchal]

I am using 250 GB SSD for OS and installed my all programs in my 1 TB 300 GB partition Drive E which is soon be full. I to have another Hard drive in my pc and has 1 TB partition so i want all my programs and data of E drive to My another drive H so how can i do that without affecting my programs games and everything

 

[little_me]

Only easy way would be to move them over and change drive letter of new bigger partition partition to be E
that way programs and windows wouldn't really know the difference.

Only other way would be classic "uninstall everything and reinstall"

 

[Himanshu Panchal]

is this possible or just a experiment like you might or might not get success.

 

[little_me]

It works with straight copy for pretty much all drives except C
so if old letter was anything but C, it works since windows simply refuses to install critical things it needs to start on other drives.

So, go to drive E in explorer, check that you have all files shown in folder view options, no hidden files and show system files.
hit CTRL-A (or use mouse to select all, your choice)
Do not try to copy: (they don't like to be copied)
$RECYCLE.BIN
System Volume Information

Press CTRL-C (don't use X or cut, since you risk losing existing data if something goes wrong in the process)
go to drive H
press CTRL-V

Press WINDOWS-X
select disk management
change drive letter of E to something else
change drive letter of H to E
change drive letter of something else to whatever you want, possibly H?

Again, this works for other drives except C
If it doesn't work after reboot, all you need to do is to swap the drive letters back to reset what you did, it should work but.. if it doesn't, all you lost was some time taken by the copy process.