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Move Personal folders to another Drive in Windows

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A guide to move personal folders to a different path

Libraries in Windows 7

Is your C: drive getting crowded? Would you like to move the personal folders to another drive to free up space? Maybe it’s one of the personal system folders like My Documents, My Pictures, My Videos or My Download folder that is taking up a lot of space. If you have another hard drive, consider moving some system folders to a second volume.

Because the locations of system folders are listed in the Windows registry and sometimes hard-wired in programs, personal system folders cannot be moved by conventional methods nor can you use a standard shortcut file. Instead they are redirected using symbolic links. For redirecting personal system folders, Windows 7 has a built-in procedure. Here is how it works:

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Determine if the SSD handled correctly with TRIM

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When you delete information from a hard drive, It's not gone, but, rather, is the index to this information which tells us that the hard drive could overwrite the old data. This is not possible with a SSD where an SSD can only write data to a clean block. It is like building a house where an old house used to stand. Trim is the command from the operating system to the SSD to clean free blocks of an SSD and make them ready for future storage.

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Bootable USB Key with command in Windows 7

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A bootable USB flash drive can be a handy thing to have. For one thing, you can try out other operating systems without messing with your hard drive. For another, you can have a tool for repairing Windows systems that won’t boot. Or you can use it to install software on a PC that has no DVD drive.

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How to change the boot drive in Windows

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Change boot drive in Windows

I have two Solid State Drives and one platter-based drive connected to my PC. One of the SSDs contains the Windows 7 operating system, the other nothing of importance anymore but the System Reserved partition. Any attempt to disconnect the drive from the system resulted in boot errors due to missing boot information. Since I do not really need that second SSD anymore I decided to find a way to move the System Reserved partition from that drive to my new SSD instead so that it would boot just fine without the second drive.

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hiberfil.sys in Windows 7

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To remove the large file ’hiberfil.sys’ used only if you let your computer go into Sleep Mode.

  1. Starta command shell, write cmd in the search field.
  2. Type the command:
powercfg.exe -h off

Restart the computer then the file is hiberfil.sys away.

Now the computer never goes in Hibernation, only Sleep. Draws a little more power but starts much faster.

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