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Note that if you're using 7-zip (and probably winrar too but I can't confirm this) if you drag and drop the folder, it will always copy the files to a temp directory on your C drive and then move that folder to your destination, which means that you need space on the C drive to hold the files temporarily. This is because only Windows can read the "drop" destination.I have the exact same problem. My drive doesn't have enough memory to unzip the game and I can't really make any space by deleting stuff because it's all important files and apps that can't be transferred to another drive. Wish windows allowed you to safely move the temp folder location cause all my other drives have over 120gb.
But, if you use the "extract" button in the 7-zip UI, it will instead extract your files according to the "working folder" setting, which by default should be the same folder as the one the file you're extracting is in. So if you have the compressed game file on a separate hard drive/partition, it won't go to your C drive and the temp files will instead use the same drive the compressed file is on. You can also open up the 7-zip options and manually change the working folder to be on a specific drive/folder that you know has lots of space so all temporary files get put there. Again, this only works for clicking the extract button, not drag and dropping.
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