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Out of room on my SSD

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I'm new - please be gentile...

My WIN7 PC has a 250 SSD - It is full.  I have another, larger one on the way to replace it. (I plan on Cloning to install the new SSD.) I would LIKE to have no programs - not even Acronis on the Boot Drive.  So the question is 2 fold...

How can I move Acronis TI 18 off my SSD. ?

How can I move others off as well?

  Should I do it now or wait till I install the new SSD and then move it (if possible).  Some installs don't give an option of where to put a new program - i don't recall ATI giving me that option.

There are several other 'space hogs' on my C: that I would also like to move

Is there an easy way to do this?

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Mike, while cloning your SSD can be used successfully, the perennial advice here in the forums is to ensure that you also make a full backup of the SSD before attempting a clone operation, this is your safety net in case anything goes wrong.

ATI cannot be moved to any other install location than your main OS drive - there is no option to allow this to be done.

ATI does not provide any method of migrating your installed programs from your OS drive to a different drive - you would need to do this yourself manually by first uninstalling then reinstalling each program, assuming that such an option is provided to allow for a different location to be chosen.

Personally, I have never attempted to do as you propose - my own preference is to keep my OS and all installed programs together but have my data on a separate drive (or partition).  This means (for me) that any recovery of my OS drive includes everything I want without tripping over any changes that may have occurred due to program updates. 

You need to bear in mind that regardless of where you install an application, that there will be information related to that application that is stored on the OS drive, i.e. in the Windows Registry files, in the User > AppData folders etc - if you have these become mismatched for any reason, then the end result will be unpredictable.  Better to get a bigger SSD for the OS drive!

Mike...Steve has offered some excellent advice.  I also recommend keeping all apps (programs) on the OS drive and moving data to other drives as necessary. 

If you decide to move some of the 'space hogs' to other drives, then I would recommend that when you create backups, that you include all drives that have apps (programs) in the backup.  Then, if you ever have to perform a restore, you would then restore the entire backup to both drives.

 

Thanks for the replies - I agree, Good Advice!

The key word there was 'option'.  Wish I had one.  I did get a bigger SSD to replace my 250 (they were pricey when I built this PC) but it seems like it'll just 'stop the bleeding'.  Other than ATI, the biggest room hogs are Google, and Anything Mozilla.

I've read up on ways to move my mail folder and archives to another location but the instructions don't match my screens.  I'll keep studying.

Steve, the full BackUp that you recommend... Is that the same as a disk image?  The one you make for the clone operation?  Or is is just a back up.  Just let ATI wizzard do it? Should it be on another HDD or can it be on an external?

Thanks again

Mike, I have had my Mozilla Thunderbird profile folder on a different partition than my OS for some years now - the way to do this can be found at webpage: Moving your profile folder

I am not sure why Google should be a hog but I am only using Chrome as my default browser and not any other Google apps - just Xmarks bookmark sync for sharing these with different computers.

ATI shouldn't be a hog either unless you are storing .tib files on the same drive?  Again, these should always be on either a different drive or partition with the preference being the former for safety reasons.  Disk drives die, often without much warning, so having .tib files on your OS drive means you would lose everything if the drive dies!

A full backup is the same as a disk image provided the whole disk is included apart from the normal exclusions for such as pagefile, hiberfil & swapfile .sys files etc.  The backup can be to a second disk if available or else to an external drive, but the latter is safest as can be disconnected while doing a clone.