How can you move or transfer a Minecraft root folder to another drive?

Solution 1:

There are 3 easy steps you need to take to move Minecraft to your SSD.

1. Find your .minecraft folder.

Your .minecraft folder should be located in %appdata%\.minecraft on your computer.

2. Move your .minecraft folder.

Copy the entire .minecraft folder to your SSD. Lets assume your SSD is D: and you copy the folder to the directory D:\Games\.minecraft

3. Let Minecraft know.

You finally have to tell the Minecraft launcher that the game is now located on D:. Open your Minecraft launcher and click Edit Profile. When the dialogue box opens, tick the Game Directory check box and type in the new directory:

You can check that you put in the correct directory by clicking the "Open Game Dir" button.

Click Save Profile and your done! Minecraft will now be loading from your SSD.

Solution 2:

You can use mklink to create a directory junction, which will enable you to access Minecraft in the usual way while it is physically stored elsewhere (in your case, on another drive).

Move the Minecraft folder where you want it to physically reside, then hit Win-R, enter cmd, hit Enter and input the following command:

mklink /j link target, where target is the new location of the Minecraft folder and link is where it originally was.

Example: mklink /j C:\Users\Username\Appdata\Roaming\.minecraft D:\Minecraft