<p>You surely can. Just add <strong>-datadir</strong> parameter to the command line, when starting bitcoin-qt.
For example:</p>

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  <p>bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=D:\BITCOINDATA</p>
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Gigi
<p>I don't want 12 gigabytes stored on my boot drive.  Can I change where the  Bitcoin-Qt stores the block chain?</p>

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Asking about how to change the default storage location has been posted many, many times. The future canonical question is probably *[Bitcoin-Qt setup: Change block-chain file location, settings? documentation?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9259)*. Possible duplicate of *[Bitcoin-Qt setup: Change block-chain file location, settings? documentation?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9259)*.
Peter Mortensen
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Using the main Bitcoin-Qt Client, can you change where it stores the block chain?
Darek Bridges
# Using the main Bitcoin-Qt Client, can you change where it stores the block chain?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2013-05-10)

I don't want 12 gigabytes stored on my boot drive. Can I change where the Bitcoin-Qt stores the block chain?

**Tags:** client, bitcoin-core

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: Asking about how to change the default storage location has been posted many, many times. The future canonical question is probably *[Bitcoin-Qt setup: Change block-chain file location, settings? documentation?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9259)*. Possible duplicate of *[Bitcoin-Qt setup: Change block-chain file location, settings? documentation?](http://bitcoin.stackexchange.com/questions/9259)*.  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_2 on 2013-05-11. Score: 1 | Accepted answer

You surely can. Just add **-datadir** parameter to the command line, when starting bitcoin-qt.
For example:

> bitcoin-qt.exe -datadir=D:\BITCOINDATA


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