Hardlinks in Win 7, how to?

[soulesschild]

I'm trying to create a hard link for my Steam files and everytime I try the command I get an error message that the syntax isn't correct.

This is my syntax

mklink /J C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps D:\Games\steamapps

Why isn't this command working?

 

[soulesschild]

Nevermind I'm an idiot, forgot quotes. For those curious, it looks like this

mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps" "D:\Games\steamapps"

 

[Arainach]

What are you trying to accomplish? Just because the file system has support for hard links doesn't mean all (or even most) applications do. In general, it's best to avoid them unless you have a REALLY REALLY good reason.

 

[Dion]

What are you trying to accomplish? Just because the file system has support for hard links doesn't mean all (or even most) applications do. In general, it's best to avoid them unless you have a REALLY REALLY good reason.

Its pretty clear what hes trying to do based on his hard link

 

[soulesschild]

I have about 50GB worth of steam games. My C drive is my SSD that's only 64GB. So I'm offloading the Steam games onto my RAID0

 

[NoForgiveness]

You could always install steam on the new drive, or move the whole folder it should just work.

 

[Thuleman]

Google for "moving a steam installation" on how to easily move your steam install to different drive, the first hit will be a Steam support wiki article. Sometimes the obvious choice is obvious.

Edit: I guess I should answer the actual question too though:

mklink /J C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps D:\Games\steamapps

Why isn't this command working?

mklink /J "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps" D:\Games\steamapps

will work.