Windows 10: SSD upgrade while preserving Symbolic Links??

Hello everyone! I have two SSD slots in my laptop. I have two ssds in them, both 256 gb. The primary drive has about 100 gb used while the secondary drive is almost full. I have many symbolic links for many different music production related programs and files that pretty much migrates everything that auto installs onto the primary onto the secondary drive while allowing the programs to function correctly and keeps the primary drive some what cleaner. I have been under the impression that keeping that primary drive clean and not clutter is better for the PC and I need all the optimization I can get to keep the main program and the other tools running efficiently with power when I need it. I used a tool that migrates whole folders and creates the symlink as I'm not code savy. Anyways, the secondary drive is now full of stuff that is symlinked from the primary.

I now want to upgrade that secondary drive to accommodate more space, but seeing as I only have one extra slot (primary obviously needs to stay in), is there any way I can achieve this migration and preserve the symbolic links? The only thing that comes to mind is using a professional migration tool, Cloning the secondary drive onto an external ssd (or more likely a cheap hdd), removing the secondary drive, putting the new one in, and then restoring the drive onto the new larger secondary. Would the symlinks be preserved (currently the secondary drive is D: would the new one also be recognized as D which would allow the symlinks to still be relevant as the paths ways are for example C: Program Files -> D: Program Files) ? Would I be able to turn of the laptop and remove the secondary drive and replace it with out losing my image on the hdd?

Sorry its a long post and I really appreciate you if you got this far!!! Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.

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mklink /d “C:\Program Files (x86)\ Infogrames Interactive” “P:\ Infogrames Interactive”

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However when I open it, the following message appears:

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2. Has anyone found a solution to this problem?

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