Placing Installer and SoftwareDistribution on another partition breaks Windows Update

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  1. LiteOS

    LiteOS Windowizer

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    #1 LiteOS, Apr 22, 2015
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    Hey

    Im trying to lower the ssd footprint by moving those folders to hdd partition
    but its breaks the windows update

    anyone know how to fix ? mb via regedit
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  2. Stripakulina

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    #2 Stripakulina, Apr 22, 2015
    How you did it? With symbolic link?
     
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  3. LiteOS

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    #3 LiteOS, Apr 22, 2015 (OP)
    with diskpart assign mount
     
  4. Stripakulina

    Stripakulina MDL Member

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    #4 Stripakulina, Apr 22, 2015
    Try this method. Create a folder on your hdd and name it "My symbolic links folders". Copy SoftwareDistribution folder from your ssd into it. Now you need to delete original SoftwareDistribution folder.
    Open Command prompt and type: mklink /d "C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution" "D:\My symbolic links folders\SoftwareDistribution" and hit Enter.
    The copying of full original folder is not really needed, you just can create a new empty SoftwareDistribution folder but it is important do delete original one before making a symbolic link.
     
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  5. Yasser Da Silva

    Yasser Da Silva MDL Senior Member

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    #5 Yasser Da Silva, Apr 28, 2015
    I will try this ...