Thread: Move Partition Contents and Rename Volume?

I want to move the entire contents of E: (including installed apps) to F:
Will I still be able to use the installed apps normally after copy/paste and then renaming F: to E:?
I've tried googling but can't find answers.

easy, copy them all over, keep all in same folders
then change the drive F: to E: and you are done.

if it is partioning u want to do use paragon partition manager if it is application relocating u want to do im pretty sure you cant to that on windows..

Whenever you have somthing installed it gets added to the regestry which tells the location of the file when you move it the regestry has no idea how to find the file to run. you would have to reinstall the program onto the other drive..

as for documents and regular files u can copy and paste

Easeus Partition Manager will do the trick, it's free, can copy/move/delete partitions, shrink/expand them, change drive letters and probably anything else you would ever need to do with a partition.

I had to clone my Hard Drive recently because it was failing. And I went to the manufacturers website and found the perfect tool, You should do the same.

Originally Posted by zebooboo

I want to move the entire contents of E: (including installed apps) to F:
Will I still be able to use the installed apps normally after copy/paste and then renaming F: to E:?
I've tried googling but can't find answers.

Dunno why but I first misread your question and it seems that so did everybody else who answered in this thread ^^;

I believe this would indeed work, however I haven't tried it. The registry references real filepaths (such as E:\Gamez\Whatever.exe) and not actual partition/drive-sector information.

The obvious requirement for this switch is that your drive F: is large enough to store all the data from E:. Also you need to copy the files one-to-one, not modify or add any directories...

A simple test would be to copy all data from E: to F: and then perform the Drive-Letter switch. If everything works as expected, you can scrap the old E : :)