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I've tried following instructions here: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/move-windows-10-apps-other-drive-change-install-location but the problem is I only get to decide which partition to move the software to, no possibility to move the apps to a folder inside the partition.

So, how do I move them from there location to a specific folder inside a partition?

user709710
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There is one possible way to deal with it - through creating a virtual hard disk.

Press Win+X, select Disk Management. In the "Action" menu above, click "Create VHD" and save it to some folder. Then initialize it and create a partition. At last you would be able to see the virtual drive appearing in the storage setting, and you are good to go.

Virtual hard disks are handled by Windows System itself so that's the difference.

For the below answer suggesting SMB: Yes you could also create and read a vhd through SMB. However I would strongly recommend that you get a new HDD, SSD or whatever directly. According to my test between a Windows server and a Linux client over a 1GbE LAN, the trassmission speed is only around 0.65 Gbps and it would be worse for fragmented files. I am doing this because I haven't got the money to buy a new HDD and the partition created for Windows 10 spared from a Ubuntu installation is too small to install something like Halo...

After all, if you HAVE TO connnect to the extra storage device through LAN, configuring an iSCSI server would be a better choice.

march_happy
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Windows only allows to specify a drive as the new location, maybe because it will create several new folders at that location. However, there might be a way to trick Windows, by attributing a drive letter to the folder.

Here is one way of doing that :

  1. Open Windows Explorer, right click on the folder and choose Properties
  2. In the Sharing tab, click Advanced sharing
  3. Check "Share this folder", specify a name, then click OK
  4. Still in Windows Explorer, open Network in left panel and click on your computer
  5. Right-click on the new share and choose "Map network drive ..."
  6. Choose a drive letter and check "Reconnect at sign-on"
  7. Click OK

You may now try using the new "drive" for storing apps.
(As I have never done this, I do not guarantee success.)

harrymc
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