Moving programs from a full c drive to another drive on same server

Hi all
Ran into a place where they had two partinioned drives on the same computer.
The hardly used the second drive, hence it is 90% empty.
On the other hand the C drive is where all the companies programs and
network shares reside, hence the drive is now so full, even defrag will not
work.
Is there a best practice procedure for moving the programs and network
shares to the other empty drive so as not to loose user data or
functionality.
Programs looking at moving are accounting programs, office suite, and user
folders.
Thanks.

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> Hi all
> Ran into a place where they had two partinioned drives on the same
> computer.

It's common -- I usually do this on purpose for convenience.

> The hardly used the second drive, hence it is 90% empty.
> On the other hand the C drive is where all the companies programs and
> network shares reside, hence the drive is now so full, even defrag will
> not work.

> Is there a best practice procedure for moving the programs

Sure, you first COPY (e.g., xcopy /s /o /v /h /k etc) them fully to the
other drive and
use the LinkD.exe (free among the downloadable ResKit tools at MS)
to link a "junction point" called "C:\Program Files" to the actual (new)
location on the other drive.

You need to first remove the current Program Files (or at least empty it)
and
that may take a little bit of finagling -- renaming the current directory
usually
works -- then deleting it afterwards

> and network shares to the other empty drive so as not to loose user data
> or functionality.

Network shares will have to be recreated unless you move the contents
using my LinkD method above.

> Programs looking at moving are accounting programs, office suite, and user
> folders.

Programs cannot (easily) tell that LinkD is being used.


--
Herb Martin, MCSE, MVP
http://www.LearnQuick.Com
(phone on web site)

> Thanks.
>