NTFS Junctions Question

Makhaira

Makhaira

Makhaira

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Evening all!

Right, a "please poke holes in my plan" post for you all.

At the moment I have an SSD in my PC for a system drive, and a 750Gb F1 in there as a storage drive.

My Steam folder is too big to fit on the SSD, and currently resides on the 750Gb.

Is there any reason why I can't use an NTFS Junction tool to create junctions to allow the folders for SOME of my Steam games to be on the SSD, whilst appearing to all reside within my Steam folder on the storage drive?

While Doom2 hardly needs an SSD, it's nice to have games like Mass Effect running off an SSD if possible.

Thanks in advance for any comments!
 
Should work fine.

Use mklink from the command prompt. There are subtle differences between the various types (symbolic link, hard link and directory junction) so you may need to try each one.

Personally though, I don't see the point in having Games on an SSD. It's not like they will benefit all that much. Vista/W7's Superfetch will take care of game loading performance if that's what you're worried about.
 
I actually created a GUI for the mklink that makes it a bit easier to create them. It only works on Vista+.

Symbolic links only exist in Vista and Windows 7 whereas Junction points exist in XP and below. There is a few subtle differences but for you want they are the same.

But check it out here with the source http://www.humblecoder.co.uk/?p=50
 
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