SSD help

leemk · 27 Dec 2017 at 23:34

Hi, i have the following:

C:/ Crucial CTX256 SSD OS only.
D:/ Samsung F3 1TB 300gb partition with games and steam folder
E:/ Samsung F3 1TB 700gb partition with miscellaneous stuff.

Want to install a 2nd 500gb sd to replace the D drive pushing the Samsung drive to E & F , if i just install the new SSD and configure it as D can i just copy the Steam folder and games folders to that without doing anything else..

Grumps82 · 28 Dec 2017 at 09:50

leemk said:
Hi, i have the following:

C:/ Crucial CTX256 SSD OS only.
D:/ Samsung F3 1TB 300gb partition with games and steam folder
E:/ Samsung F3 1TB 700gb partition with miscellaneous stuff.

Want to install a 2nd 500gb sd to replace the D drive pushing the Samsung drive to E & F , if i just install the new SSD and configure it as D can i just copy the Steam folder and games folders to that without doing anything else..

Have a look at this thread mate : https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/how-to-move-a-steam-game-from-hdd-to-ssd.18805335/

LeMson · 28 Dec 2017 at 13:28

Hope you don't have anything important on those Samsung F3's I had 6 and 5 of them have failed now

leemk · 28 Dec 2017 at 20:19

Cobra-UK said:
Have a look at this thread mate : https://forums.overclockers.co.uk/threads/how-to-move-a-steam-game-from-hdd-to-ssd.18805335/

Hi , yes have used that to move the steam folder before , was just wondering since the drive path would still be D: that i would not need to use that or dig through the registry and edit paths for games and apps i have installed that are not on steam.

leemk · 28 Dec 2017 at 20:22

LeMson said:
Hope you don't have anything important on those Samsung F3's I had 6 and 5 of them have failed now

Its been ok for the last 2 years but would not be too much of a headache if it failed.

LeMson · 28 Dec 2017 at 20:27

leemk said:
Its been ok for the last 2 years but would not be too much of a headache if it failed.

Yes my one that still works is years and years old, it's just the last of 6 lolz Western Digital blue ones are cheap and no failures yet on mine

You can just copy stuff over to your new SSD, and your can change the names of the HDD's to have the D drive now become the F drive, and name new SSD as D

ed79 · 29 Dec 2017 at 04:43

leemk said:
Hi , yes have used that to move the steam folder before , was just wondering since the drive path would still be D: that i would not need to use that or dig through the registry and edit paths for games and apps i have installed that are not on steam.

As long as the new drive is called D (and the path to Steam etc is the same) then it'll be fine.