Moving files to another Hard Disk

[stickroad]

Hey everyone i would just like to know, i have 2 hard drives, one has all my O/S on and my games and the other one is compltely empty.

How would i move my games to the empty Hard drive without reinstalling?

Thanks

 

[rpstewart]

How would i move my games to the empty Hard drive without reinstalling?

Without reinstalling the game? It's do-able but a pain in the rear, you'd need to find all the references to the old location in the registry and any config files etc and change every single one to the new location. Miss one and the game will have problems once it's moved.

You'd be far better off moving your saved games to a safe location and then reinstalling the games.

 

[stickroad]

Thanks rpstewart.

What about if its a online game and ive gone through hours and hours of patching and i don't think i can simply just copy and paste the patches, i need to like you said go into the registry.

What about using something like ghost?

 

[Steves_pc]

Partition Magic used to have a thing called Drive Mapper for sorting out the registry once stuff had been moved, couldnt tell you how successful it was though but the theory's good.

 

[Couscous]

I'm guessing this is for an mmorpg like everquest or wow?

Easiest way is likely to be:

1- Find the directory where the game is currently installed.
2- Back up the entire directory (copy & paste to a temp directory).
3- Uninstall the game.
4- Reinstall game to the new hard drive.
5- Copy & paste all of the backed up files to the new install location saying 'no' to overwriting existing files.

You'll still need to do some repatching this way, but it will be a totally safe way of moving the install location and the patching should be pretty minimal.


Cosucous