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## Guide: Moving/Installing Windows Subsystem For Android™ (WSA) to another partition or disk
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### Preface:
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##### WSA can take up a lot of storage space, hence you want to move it to another partition or disk with more space. <br> This guide goes through a method by which you can install WSA from another disk and to store the data in that drive (instead of `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForAndroid_8wekyb3d8bbwe`).
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### Prerequisites:
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- The partition/ disk that you want to move/install Windows Subsystem For Android™ to, ****MUST**** be **NTFS**
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- Recommended that both disks, C:/ and the disk/partition that you want to install (move) WSA on (to), are SSDs
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- HDDs may work, but performance issues may arise
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- Basic knowledge on Command Prompt (CMD) usage
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- There must be enough space on the disk/partiton that you are installing/moving WSA to (recommended 20GB, as the VHDX can become very large in size)
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> **Note**
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> If you want to preseve your data, make a backup of the `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForAndroid_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache\userdata.vhdx` file. After uninstalling, copy the VHDX file back to the `%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForAndroid_8wekyb3d8bbwe\LocalCache` folder.
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## Process:
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- ### Step 1: Remove all previous installations from WSABuilds or official WSA Releases
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- To remove WSA installed through WSABuild:
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- **1.)** Make sure that Windows Subsystem For Android™ is not running
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- **2.)** Search for ``Windows Subsystem For Android™ Settings`` using the built-in Windows Search, or through Add and Remove Programs and press uninstall
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- **3.)** Delete the WSA folder that you extracted and Run.bat was run from to install WSA (MagiskOnWSA folder)
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- **4.)** Go to ``%LOCALAPPDATA%/Packages/`` and delete the folder named ``MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForAndroid_8wekyb3d8bbwe``
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- If you get an error that states that the file(s) could not be deleted, make sure that WSA is turned off
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- To remove WSA installed from the Microsoft Store:
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- **1.)** Search for ``Windows Subsystem For Android™ Settings`` using the built-in Windows Search, or through Add and Remove Programs and press uninstall
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- ### Step 2: Install WSA from the desired partition
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- **1.)** Download the latest WSA Build according to Windows Version and CPU Archtecture from [Release](https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script/releases/latest).
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- **2.)** Extract to the desired partition or drive
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- Using the same process as detailed in [Installation](https://github.com/YT-Advanced/WSA-Script#--installation)
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- **3.)** Open the extracted folder and run ``Run.bat``
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- ### Step 3: Moving the AppData (VHDX + data) from your Windows drive (C:\) to the desired partition/drive
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- **1.)** Go to ``%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\`` and copy the folder named ``MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForAndroid_8wekyb3d8bbwe`` to the desired drive/partition, making sure to delete the folder from ``%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\`` after copying
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- **2.)** Open Command Prompt (Admin) through Windows Terminal (Admin) or directly and run the command:
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```shell
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mklink /J "%LOCALAPPDATA%\Packages\MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForAndroid_8wekyb3d8bbwe" "Location_Of_Folder_In_Other_Drive"
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```
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Replacing Location_Of_Folder_In_Other_Drive with the location of the folder named ``MicrosoftCorporationII.WindowsSubsystemForAndroid_8wekyb3d8bbwe``, copied to the desired to the drive/partition in 1st point of Step 3
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- ### Step 4: Testing if everything is working
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- Run Windows Subsystem For Android™ Settings
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- If it crashes, you have made a mistake whilst following the guide. Try following it again.
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