Looking for a step by step guide to move DCS to another SSD

[sirrah]

I know this has been asked and discussed many times, but my forum search still doesn't seem to properly work, so I can't find anything.

 

As many here, I'm having space issues on my current pc. (500GB for both my OS and DCS ain't enough no more)

 

I was planning on getting this SSD

 

Can anyone tell me step by step (layman here), what I need to do to move my DCS install from it's current SSD to the new one? Or maybe point me out to a guide.

[Maggot]

If you have space to keep the base game, it’s easy just to move the maps to another disk, using the windows command ”mklink /j”. The maps are what takes up most of the space. That’s how I do it at least.

[sirrah]

1 hour ago, Maggot said:

If you have space to keep the base game, it’s easy just to move the maps to another disk, using the windows command ”mklink /j”. The maps are what takes up most of the space. That’s how I do it at least.

Thanks Maggot. Sounds like an easy solution. Though, could you expand your method a little bit please?

 

I'm not familiar with using "mylink/j". In fact, I have no idea what it means .

 

I assume this method won't cause issues when updating DCS (the DCS installer will look and install updates in the correct new folder?)

 

[BitMaster]

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

[sirrah]

16 minutes ago, BitMaster said:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

Hmm... I was kinda hoping this would be easier. Like cut and paste the whole install directory to the new location and then run repair or something..

[xoxen]

I recently moved my complete DCS folder from one 256 GB SSD to a 512 GB one. If I remember correctly I just copy and pasted it, ran a repair and that´s it. The only thing that changed was the drive letter. What I have manually adapted were the shortcuts I have in the Windows Start menu. I did not delete the original DCS just to be on the safe side. I renamed it to be sure the copied DCS is now the one that runs and finally removed it when I was at the point I was sure it worked.

I guess above guide from Bitmaster shows you, how to link part of you installation to another drive. If you buy a new SSD and completely want to move it, you should not need it.

Xoxen

[sirrah]

2 hours ago, xoxen said:

I recently moved my complete DCS folder from one 256 GB SSD to a 512 GB one. If I remember correctly I just copy and pasted it, ran a repair and that´s it. The only thing that changed was the drive letter. What I have manually adapted were the shortcuts I have in the Windows Start menu. I did not delete the original DCS just to be on the safe side. I renamed it to be sure the copied DCS is now the one that runs and finally removed it when I was at the point I was sure it worked.

I guess above guide from Bitmaster shows you, how to link part of you installation to another drive. If you buy a new SSD and completely want to move it, you should not need it.

Xoxen

Thanks xoxen!

 

I rather have my DCS install all together on one drive, instead of "fragmented". But that's just a silly (no real reason) personal preference

 

Gonna try your method 

[xoxen]

The repair has to be started from the new drive, it must be in the folder where the dcs.exe is located.

[thrustvector]

i just done it, just clone your drive to new one, delete what you dont want want, job done, no problems at all, didnt even need re naming, changing anything, switched all modules off first of course