I've successfully done this with Windows\Installer, Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download and Windows\ServicePackFiles\i386 on Win2K3.
To keep things simple, I've copied these folders (ensuring security was kept as it was, where possible) to their exact same paths but on the newer empty drive, stopping the relevant services before hand. Then delete the original and make the junction in its place, and start the relevant services again. BTW My current favourite disk usage program is WinDirStat http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/ -- Regards, Mark Hurd, B.Sc.(Ma.)(Hons.) On 21 May 2011 19:04, Preet Sangha <[email protected]> wrote: > My usual option in a time like this is the following: > Take the heaviest directories and or files I can find and symlink/juncton > them to copies on another drive. You may be able to clear up enough space > this way. I find TreeSize Free - http://j.mp/mx0sTH from Jam Software finds > the usual suspects. > -- preet > > On 21 May 2011 11:45, Noon Silk <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> On Sat, May 21, 2011 at 1:41 AM, James Chapman-Smith >> <[email protected]> wrote: >> > If the primary drive is NTFS you could attach a second drive to a path >> > on the first thus giving you more space. Would that work? >> >> This souds just crazy enough to work, but I don't think it will, >> because I don't think you can do that on a folder that already exists. >> Unless I made the relevant folders that .net planned on installing >> into and did it that way. At this point I'm going to cry softly in the >> corner for a while, and then try and see if I can increase the size of >> the disk through amazon somehow (I saw something about it, but it was >> through the command line tools, with which I am not familiar; and also >> it was Ubuntu). >> >> It's a bit annoying that Amazon only gave me 9 gig to work with there >> (and there is really nothing not essential installed), so I'm kind of >> out of options here. >> >> -- >> Noon Silk | http://www.mirios.com.au:8081 > >> >> Fancy a quantum lunch? >> http://www.mirios.com.au:8081/index.php?title=Quantum_Lunch >> >> "Every morning when I wake up, I experience an exquisite joy — the joy >> of being this signature." > > > > -- > regards, > Preet, Overlooking the Ocean, Auckland >
