i have a laptop with a 128GB ssd and a 1TB hdd and my windows is installed on my rather small ssd and i want to know if there is a way for me to move windows from C drive to D drive

Hi Devesh,

I am Dave, I will help you with this.

The SSD is much faster than the HDD and it is best not to move Windows to the HDD, that will slow down your PC considerably.

if the SD is full that is what is slowing down your PC, an SSD needs to be about 1/5 free space.

Here is the best way to set up a system with a small system drive and large data drive.

1.

Move all your User Library folders to D:

Open Windows File Explorer

In the right hand pane, right click your Documents folder and choose Properties

Select the Location tab

In the Location box, type D:\Documents then click Apply and Ok

When that move completes, do the same for Pictures, Videos and Music

Each time, provide a new folder location, for example, Pictures will go to D:\Pictures

2.

Move the location of all future content downloaded from the Microsoft Store

Open the Settings App (gear icon on your Start Menu)

Go to System - Storage - Change where new content is saved:

Change all options you find there to D

Also, for any Apps or games that you may have downloaded, go to Settings - Apps, then select that game or App and there may be a Move option . .

3.

If you are a Steam Gamer

Stop all processes associated with Steam

Move the Steam folder to your D drive manually

Then open the Steam Control Panel and point that to the new location

4.

Please Note: this should ideally be done before you begin installing any software

For 3rd party applications, some will allow you to choose an installation location, for those, create a new Program files folder on your D drive, then for each application, create a new sub-folder of that folder

Other 3rd party applications will not allow you to change the installation location, and there is no safe way to move those to your D drive . . .