Can I play WoW if it's not installed on my Windows HDD?

FunkyT · 30 Mar 2007 at 08:57

I'm thinking of installing a new disk and using my Windows HDD as a backup store (this is where WoW is installed).

Would the game run ok if I shortcut to my old drive?

Droolinggimp · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:15

Would you be installing windows on your new hard drive?

if so I would presume the game wouldnt work as it would install files to the system folders. and as they would be o the Old HDD they wouldnt be read.. Not sure.

FunkyT · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:17

Thanks.

Yep, I'd be installing Windows on my new HDD.

Cuchulain · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:22

FunkyT said:
I'm thinking of installing a new disk and using my Windows HDD as a backup store (this is where WoW is installed).

Would the game run ok if I shortcut to my old drive?

Yes it will run, fortunately it's one of the few games that will, I've done it myself. (WoW was installed under XP, installed Vista on a new drive, made the XP drive a slave and it ran perfectly just set up a new shortcut for it)

Faceman · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:24

just to second the above i copied my wow golder to another machine and it worked just fine

Droolinggimp · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:27

Cool. Now i know I wont have to reinstall if I get a new HDD..

EDIT One more thing .. What folder/file/files are needed to be backed up that contain my characters/save game etc. I rather not redo the whole thing if something happened to my PC.

FunkyT · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:27

Thanks lads - really helpful replies :cool:

ChrisJSY · 30 Mar 2007 at 09:35

droolinggimp said:
Cool. Now i know I wont have to reinstall if I get a new HDD..

EDIT One more thing .. What folder/file/files are needed to be backed up that contain my characters/save game etc. I rather not redo the whole thing if something happened to my PC.

I think it's the INTERFACE and WTF folder.
But yeah, wow is one of those games you can just copy/paste the folder onto any machine and it will run

Haggisman · 30 Mar 2007 at 10:08

hehe, WoW doesn't save your characters on your HDD, but yeah, to keep your interface settings/macros/addons, you need to copy the WTF and interface folders

Phal · 30 Mar 2007 at 12:05

As my 'special' housemate found out, you can even play wow if its not even on your computer >.>

I had my wow directory shared on the network and he managed to start wow and login and play for a while by running the files from my pc!

Was a bit slow though