Moving Program Files to another drive?

[rednal]

Hi, I built a PC in November of last year and after doing some research I found that having Windows installed on a SDD instead of an HDD would be very beneficial. I bought a 120GB SSD for Windows and a few games, along with a 1TB HDD for storage. I noticed recently that my SDD has somehow gotten to the point where it only has less 8.78GB free. I thought I only had Windows 7 and BF3+it's expansions installed on the SSD, however apparently this is not the case. Whenever I install a program I always choose to install it under F>Programs so the additional space must be taken by something else. Here's an album with all the folders and how much space is being taken up by it on my SSD. I was wondering what I could do/move to my Storage HDD to free up space on my SSD? Thanks for all help and suggestions!

 

[DominionSeraph]

What do you have in your user directory that's taking up 26GB?

 

[Carson Dyle]

Also:

There's about 20GB unaccounted for. Is there a giant swap file in your C: root folder? Some apps will also toss memory dumps into this same folder.

The User directory will generally contain your program data, as well as most temporary files. If you can figure out which programs are storing massive amounts of data, you may be able to set a data directory in the applicaion and move its data to HDD. Most, but not all programs will let you do that.

Some programs will store data in the Program Files and Program Files (x86) directories, so you may be running into the same thing there.

If moving application data and/or resizing your page file doesn't give you enough breathing room, it's generally best to reinstall software if you want to move it to a new folder.

 

[John Connor]

Go into environmental variables and move the temp directory to the HDD.

 

[DominionSeraph]

And disable system restore/hibernation.

 

[MrPickins]

Use Windirstat to figure out where your space is being used.

http://windirstat.info/

Then decide what you need to do.

 

[nk215]

Use junction to move directories/folders off of your SSD. That way, you can move those folders back when needed w/o install/reinstall/registry editing etc. I move games/MS office in and out of my SSD regularly.

Move your download/my doc etc folder off of the default OS drive also helps.

 

[KingFatty]

Do you use your desktop as a dumping ground to save all kinds of files there? Maybe that would explain your irrationally large user directory.

But really, you'd free up like 30 GB if you cleaned up your user directory. Can you try using the windirstat and capture a screenshot so we can figure out what in the world is taking up so much space in the user directory?