Best way of moving WoW to new PC

scorza · 11 Jul 2008 at 08:39

Any way of doing this other than reinstalling from the disks and then copying the old World of Warcraft folder via a couple of DVDs (I checked last night - it's 10Gb :eek:

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Think I'm being stupid here, there must be a quicker way.

ajbuk · 11 Jul 2008 at 08:44

External hard drive? Copy the existing WOW files to that .

square_imp · 11 Jul 2008 at 08:44

you can just copy all the game files on a big memory stick or transfer the files over a network and it does work. Have done it a few times. You shouldn't need to reinstall at all.

ins0mn1ac · 11 Jul 2008 at 08:45

I've always just slapped the folder on a few DVD's.

montymint · 11 Jul 2008 at 08:49

cheapy ethernet cable, then a copy paste via network job

Darg · 11 Jul 2008 at 09:14

Assuming the 10GB is the map data that gets downloaded as you run around the different areas then you can either just reinstall the game from disks and just copy the patches over then let it download it all again or just borrow a mates external harddrive if you know someone with one.

If it's anything like GW all the data was in one file (about 1GB for me) the game executable was only around 1mb. You could just copy the executable and it would download everything it needed again but it's much quicker just to copy the data with it.

BombayMix · 11 Jul 2008 at 09:37

Wow doesn't work like that. You to to have it all before you can start playing. You can now download it of the WoW site but some external drive the best option. I had abit of trouble copy it via DvDs. One file blew some file size limit.

FrenchTart · 11 Jul 2008 at 09:48

BombayMix said:
Wow doesn't work like that. You to to have it all before you can start playing. You can now download it of the WoW site but some external drive the best option. I had abit of trouble copy it via DvDs. One file blew some file size limit.

Then just .zip or .rar it into chunks. If you choose storage method rather than high compression it won't take long.

wordy · 11 Jul 2008 at 09:57

leave patching going overnight I guess if you haven't got a big enough memory stick or a network setup

Substance · 11 Jul 2008 at 12:20

1.Put the old hard drive in new pc,

2.Copy files over,

3.Put it back in old pc

4.????

5.PROFIT

iviv · 11 Jul 2008 at 12:27

BombayMix said:
Wow doesn't work like that. You to to have it all before you can start playing. You can now download it of the WoW site but some external drive the best option. I had abit of trouble copy it via DvDs. One file blew some file size limit.

Actually, when I tried the WoW trial, it was just a small install, and it downloaded the files as needed. I played up to Lv20 as a dwarf, and I think my game folder is less than 1Gb.

BombayMix · 11 Jul 2008 at 19:33

Well one file alone in my install is 3.55gb. Which is the one that gave problems copying it via dvds.

badbob · 11 Jul 2008 at 19:34

Copy using using 120kb sided sided 5.25" floppies.

ins0mn1ac · 11 Jul 2008 at 21:34

BombayMix said:
Well one file alone in my install is 3.55gb. Which is the one that gave problems copying it via dvds.

eh? just use Winrar and set it to rar the folder into DVD size chunks, easy!

uv · 11 Jul 2008 at 21:40

badbob said:
Copy using using 120kb sided sided 5.25" floppies.

pfft!

He should open a hex editor on both machines, and write out the text from one to the other!

seriously though.. just chuck the hardrive in the new PC, and copy across @~70MB/s rather than all this burning/downloading malarky?

DAnDan · 12 Jul 2008 at 00:35

uvmain said:
just chuck the hardrive in the new PC, and copy across @~70MB/s rather than all this burning/downloading malarky?

That's the way I did it, or just use an external disk if available.

adam cool dude · 12 Jul 2008 at 04:05

Download the client. Go outside and enjoy a few hours of real life while it downloads? Surely thats the best solution

Broken Hope · 12 Jul 2008 at 08:10

adam cool dude said:
Download the client. Go outside and enjoy a few hours of real life while it downloads? Surely thats the best solution

Can't see how that's better than copying over a fully patched install to the other machine

scorza · 12 Jul 2008 at 13:52

uvmain said:
seriously though.. just chuck the hardrive in the new PC, and copy across @~70MB/s rather than all this burning/downloading malarky?

New PC is a laptop, so can't do that. My PC has really bad network problems too hence not wanting to do the transfer over the LAN.

Cheers for all the replies. I've RAR'd up my WoW directory and will copy them across tonight probably.

Haggisman · 12 Jul 2008 at 17:37

old hard drive plus IDE/SATA -> USB converter -> fixed!

Best way of moving WoW to new PC

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