This is a problem I have had for several years now, and had no answer for it--until now. Many games these days take up 80 GB or even 140 GB and there's no apparent sign that this is going to stop climbing anytime soon. A lot of the time the C drive isn't a terribly large drive.
My C drive on my desktop is a 256 GB SSD. Nine years ago when I was only just thinking about how to spend some money I had, and I had always wanted to break into the SSD world, I decided I was going to switch the C drives in my laptop and desktop to SSD's. But I also had this idea that to stretch my money further, I wouldn't buy anything of any extravagance that I didn't have to.
I also bought a lightweight, compactly broken down tripod for my camera for about $70 around this same time, and there was a slightly taller one when fully extended for ten dollars more. The salesman at the Photography store debated with me why I wouldn't just get the bigger one, it's only ten dollars. And I was not going to just arbitrarily spent money I didn't have to spend. They guy was like, but it carries a half pound more than the smaller one and this and that. I said, well, I only need it to carry the camera I have. So this doesn't matter to me. He just didn't seem to get it.
So to save some more money, I decided that since there was only room for one drive in my laptop that I would buy a bigger drive for it and keep to the maximum size that I thought I would ever actually need for my desktop. Since it had many TB of hard drives plugged into it, there was no reason to spend tons of money on another 500 GB SSD for it, so I did one 500 GB SSD for the laptop and one 256 GB drive for the desktop. I have however come to regret this a few times. But I now have the capacity to switch to an M.2 NVME so it doesn't matter that much anymore.
So when I decided I wanted to play World of Warships a few years ago, I tried to install it and it simply wouldn't run the game. The Wargaming application opened but the actual game itself would never open. I had installed it on an external drive because I simply didn't have enough space on my C drive for it. So I have become a big fan of World of Warships but have never once played it. I have been watching The Mighty Jingles, Flambass, and Flamu for years now with regularity, but never even opened the game.
I can only assume that installing the game on any other drive but the C drive is the reason it never worked. However, now I know what would have likely solved it. In Windows, there is a feature for NTFS Folder Mounting.
So imagine you have a new drive, and for gaming in particular, and other reasons, when you mount the drive in Disk Manager, you right-click on the unpartitioned space disk > select New Simple Volume, next > enter size, next > and instead of selecting drive letter, there's a bullet selection for assigning a letter, another for simply leaving the drive without an assigned drive letter, and there's also an option for "Mount in the following empty NTFS folder. Select this option. Click Browse > click the plus under the C directory, and then you can expand Users > then (user name) > Desktop > and click New Folder > name this folder whatever you would like to name it for the purpose it will be fulfilling > click OK.
This will trick the computer into allowing you to save anything meant for the C drive on another drive, such as programs and applications including your excessively large games.
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