tansetter Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 (edited) 7 hours ago, Lionel said: Thanks for that info. Never knew of those things. Would be really interested in knowing the name of that Microsoft tool especially. By far the easiest thing is to use free 3rd party tools to convert partitions. Microsoft's tools for this purpose have always been complete garbage. The big 3rd party tool providers always used to give away their most important tools, and ask you to pay $50 for things you don't need, but within the last few years they figured out that they should actually charge for them. Happily, most of their products have trial periods, and then you'll never have to use them again. macrium, easeus, acronis, and there's a few more. worst case, go to file hippo or similar archive and download an old version where they give the feaures away for free. I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE TO FORMAT AND LOSE DATA (haven't done this in a while and looked at current tools) - these conversion tools should work (pro forma statement: back your stuff up first) also: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ Edited February 9, 2023 by cimo 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lionel Posted February 9, 2023 Share Posted February 9, 2023 1 hour ago, cimo said: By far the easiest thing is to use free 3rd party tools to convert partitions. Microsoft's tools for this purpose have always been complete garbage. The big 3rd party tool providers always used to give away their most important tools, and ask you to pay $50 for things you don't need, but within the last few years they figured out that they should actually charge for them. Happily, most of their products have trial periods, and then you'll never have to use them again. macrium, easeus, acronis, and there's a few more. worst case, go to file hippo or similar archive and download an old version where they give the feaures away for free. I DON'T THINK YOU HAVE TO FORMAT AND LOSE DATA (haven't done this in a while and looked at current tools) - these conversion tools should work (pro forma statement: back your stuff up first) also: https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/ Great! Thanks! I'll definitely look into those free options. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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