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Posted February 02, 2018
I bought my first gaming PC back in September, and for a while, I only had one drive to store all of my games on.

Not too, too long ago, I bought a 2TB SSHD and decided that maybe it's time I start moving some of my games (I got quite a few for Christmas) over to it instead.

I'm just not sure how to go about doing this without screwing something up.

My games come from various places: Blizzard, GOG, Steam, etc., but then I also have Minecraft and a few directly downloaded fan games.

Would someone please assist me? I'd be very grateful.
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Posted February 02, 2018
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mandychuu: I bought my first gaming PC back in September, and for a while, I only had one drive to store all of my games on.

Not too, too long ago, I bought a 2TB SSHD and decided that maybe it's time I start moving some of my games (I got quite a few for Christmas) over to it instead.

I'm just not sure how to go about doing this without screwing something up.

My games come from various places: Blizzard, GOG, Steam, etc., but then I also have Minecraft and a few directly downloaded fan games.

Would someone please assist me? I'd be very grateful.
Are the games installed? Or is it just installers you want to move?
Posted February 02, 2018
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mandychuu: Not too, too long ago, I bought a 2TB SSHD and decided that maybe it's time I start moving some of my games (I got quite a few for Christmas) over to it instead.
How do you have your drives set up? Is the ssd drive a replacement drive or are they both in there? Which ones has windows? Which drive has which drive letters?

To be honest, I rather a feeling it's going to come down to each game is different and best solved with a 'world of warcraft move game to new drive" search but maybe we can point out some hints.
Post edited February 02, 2018 by drmike
Posted February 02, 2018
Most installed games will have a connection to the Registry and the Registry could become unable to locate games switched to a different drive.Sooooooo,if it was me I would delete all games and start reinstalling to the other drive.This will be time consuming but overall the safest and cleanest way to do it.With games it doesn't take much to make them to become unplayable,simply because a small file did not move over or corrupted itself in the move.There are programs (freeware) out for this situation but it will also be another nuisance in the long run.
Post edited February 02, 2018 by Tauto
Posted February 02, 2018
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Tauto: Most installed games will have a connection to the Registry and the Registry could become unable to locate games switched to a different drive.Sooooooo,if it was me I would delete all games and start reinstalling to the other drive.This will be time consuming but overall the safest and cleanest way to do it.With games it doesn't take much to make them to become unplayable,simply because a small file did not move over or corrupted itself in the move.There are programs (freeware) out for this situation but it will also be another nuisance in the long run.
Have to admit that that's probably what it's going to come down to as the best solution.

I know when this happens with my clients and their kids, we've got them editing *.ini files and opening and editing registry and every game is different. One misdone edit and you're going back thru looking for the error. Lots of fun.
Posted February 02, 2018
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drmike: ...
I know when this happens with my clients and their kids, we've got them editing *.ini files and opening and editing registry and every game is different. One misdone edit and you're going back thru looking for the error. Lots of fun.
All that just to avoid keeping (backing up) and installer, total madness.
Posted February 02, 2018
What Tauto said.

As an aside though, why move your games from the original drive? Assuming you don't need to clear room for something else, why not just leave those games where they are and start installing any future games on the new drive?
Posted February 02, 2018
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Tauto: Most installed games will have a connection to the Registry and the Registry could become unable to locate games switched to a different drive.Sooooooo,if it was me I would delete all games and start reinstalling to the other drive.This will be time consuming but overall the safest and cleanest way to do it.With games it doesn't take much to make them to become unplayable,simply because a small file did not move over or corrupted itself in the move.There are programs (freeware) out for this situation but it will also be another nuisance in the long run.
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drmike: Have to admit that that's probably what it's going to come down to as the best solution.

I know when this happens with my clients and their kids, we've got them editing *.ini files and opening and editing registry and every game is different. One misdone edit and you're going back thru looking for the error. Lots of fun.
Yeah,it's a pain.
Posted February 02, 2018
I've moved my games from one drive to another, and within the same drive. It's not that hard, if you're using Galaxy, anyway.
Posted February 03, 2018
Steam has an internal option to transfer already installed games over - your easiest / safest bet for everything else would be to uninstall / reinstall onto the new drive
Posted February 03, 2018
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GR00T: What Tauto said.

As an aside though, why move your games from the original drive? Assuming you don't need to clear room for something else, why not just leave those games where they are and start installing any future games on the new drive?
Well if you suddenly have an 1TB SSD available, why not move games with long loading times there?
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