p3d ssd drive full

[jimimac 19]

hi I have a 500g ssd drive and have partitioned it for Windows 10  c drive and p3d drive d the c drive is almost full so was wondering if it's possible to install a new drive for p3d this will be e drive then delete the d partition which will free up space on the c drive I then would change my new drive from e to d and hopefully I would not have to reinstall Windows 10 and p3d hope this is possible.

[WarpD 824]

A hardware change is likely to cause issues with licensing.

[Wise87 1,281]

I recently upgrade from a 1tb SSD to a 1tb m.2 SSD. All I did was clone the old drive and then swap the boot priority. Don’t believe I had to re register anything but if I did I just selected yes when asked seeing it’s already embedded in registry. Also why partition a 500 mb SSD? SSD prices are cheap now it’s easier to pick up another drive than to divide a small drive.

[Rocky_53 1,579]

4 hours ago, Wise87 said:

I recently upgrade from a 1tb SSD to a 1tb m.2 SSD. All I did was clone the old drive and then swap the boot priority. Don’t believe I had to re register anything but if I did I just selected yes when asked seeing it’s already embedded in registry. Also why partition a 500 mb SSD? SSD prices are cheap now it’s easier to pick up another drive than to divide a small drive.

I've done this very thing today. I went from a 500Gb to a 1Tb drive for P3d and then used the 500Gb drive to replace the 120Gb OS drive. I of course had to image the drives but it all went like clockwork, no issues at all, certainly not licensing. 

[Bob Scott 7,721]

It's also very easy to expand your existing P3D install onto another drive.  The xml add-on structure allows you to easily place/move add-ons anywhere you want.  So you could just add another drive, and install/move add-ons to it, leaving the P3D base installation where it is.

Regards

[Bill Griffith 160]

4 hours ago, Wise87 said:

I recently upgrade from a 1tb SSD to a 1tb m.2 SSD. All I did was clone the old drive and then swap the boot priority. Don’t believe I had to re register anything but if I did I just selected yes when asked seeing it’s already embedded in registry. Also why partition a 500 mb SSD? SSD prices are cheap now it’s easier to pick up another drive than to divide a small drive.

I did the same thing recently.  No problems at all.

Bill

[vbazillio 2,234]

And with Symbolic Links, it’s very easy and fast to move big folders (Orbx, add-on, Simobject...) to the new drive without reinstalling anything.

For example : http://20-100-video.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-to-move-orbx-folder-or-any-big-p3d.html

Edited December 8, 2018 by vbazillio

[jimimac 19]

can I just use the Samsung migration tool to copy and move my p3d drive(d) over to the new drive which will be (e) .