Moving Central Admin to a Different Drive in SharePoint 2013 (SharePoint 2013 Solution Series Book 11)

This guide steps through process of moving the Central Administration (Central Admin) web site to a different drive. By default, the Central Administration web site is created on the C: drive using the default inetpub web site location. Many times administrators would like all of the web sites to run on a different drive, such as E:, since C: is a System Drive. While creating Web Applications, you may specify the location; the creation of Central Admin does not give you that option. You can easily move Central Admin to a different drive following the simple steps in this guide.