Old Programs to new Registry?

HecFam · 22 Mar 2013 at 22:22

Hey guys, im in a bit of a pickle.

I have my steam and games folder on my HDD. My D: drive.

A couple of days ago i reformatted my SSD, C: drive.

Now i have all my full functioning programs on my D: and most of them work fine. But battlefield 3 is showing that i don't have origin installed since its not in my registry. Is there any way i can manually add my programs to show in my new registry, or is there a program for it?

I just want the OS to pick up that there are more programs installed on the D: drive.

Does anyone know how i can solve this?

Cheers!

Judgeneo · 22 Mar 2013 at 22:32

On steam, you just have to delete your steam configuration file and start the program up again. This might work for origin too (edit, rename it instead of deleting encase it doesn't work)

HecFam · 22 Mar 2013 at 22:48

Cool, cheers for that.

Done a bit of the ol' google, but didn't find much. Is there a config for origin?

If not can i delete the origin folder (but not the games) and on the next reinstall, will the games be picked up by origin?

smogsy · 23 Mar 2013 at 10:43

just reinstall origin in the same location,

if you done what i did

and choose a different location for installed games that's not inside the origin folder this works every time.

for example
d:\orgin
d:\ogringames <games are installed here

Idleman · 23 Mar 2013 at 15:40

If you still have BF3 intalled on your D drive, just re-install Origin wherever you want.
Open Origin, go to application settings and select download location(D:Origin Games). Exit and press download in My Games, should then go straight to installation, takes 2 mins max. I did the same for all my games last weekend.

HecFam · 23 Mar 2013 at 15:47

Yeah. I ended up reinstalling origin and BF3. BF3 is my only game (with my connections it takes a couple of hours to redownload.)

I looked in my origin folder, i Had 2 folders both with BF3 in it. One that ran and one that didn't. So i deleted the one that didn't run (40GBs pretty much) and origin said it couldn't find battlefield installed. So deleted the whole folder and re installed it all.

Basically, origin was a folder with one game in it taking up almost 100GBs...