New SSD and moving Installation

[gjrc]

hi,

i have one HDD atm. its plenty big enough for what i require.

now i have BF3 installed. if i get a new SSD is there a way of moving that over to my SSD without doing an uninstall and reinstall?

i also assume that to put the OS onto the SSD would require a complete reformat / reinstall?

thx

g

 

[liamcrane]

If you are going to move your OS to an SSD a fresh install is the best approach as for installing BF3 what i would do and what i am currently in the process of doing is running a mklink from the command line to move my BF3 game from my OS ssd to my gaming ssd. The process is quite simple. Just copy the BF3 folder from within origin games on what ever drive you have it installed on and paste it in a sub folder on your new drive then open up the command line and type

mklink /J "<Origin BF3 folder>" "<New Destination Folder of your choice>"

So this is how it would look on my system

mklink /J "C:\Origin\Origin games\BF3" "H:\Games\BF3"

What this does is just tricks windows into thinking that my BF3 game is installed on my C drive when its actually installed on a different SSD altogether. Just delete the game from the original location and away you go

 

[gjrc]

great. thx.