Deanos83
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Hi guys,
I am starting to receive warning messages from windows that one of my HDD's is starting to fail (Something to do with reallocate sectors being bad) anyway, this is not a problem I have a new HDD on order.
The HDD that is failing only has installed games and installed steam games on it. I have a seperate HDD used for windows.
My question is will I be able to transfer my games/steamapp games from my failing HDD (E to my NEW HDD (Lets say G using copy and paste method, and then remove HDD (E and throw it in the bin and then rename NEW HDD (G to (E, and carry on as though nothing has happened?
I know you couldn't do this if you install games on the same disk as the OS, but as I have installed the games away from the OS HDD will I just be able to trick windows into thinking it is the same HDD?
I have over 200 games, Steam and non-steam, the Steam games I'm not to bothered about as I know I can copy and paste the steamapps folder and steam will re-install or download what ever it needs to, but the others are all disc based and will need reinstalling etc.
Once again, I have no system files on the failing hard drive, I litterally just wanna pick everything up from the old and put on the new with the same path names etc.
Any thoughts
Regards
I am starting to receive warning messages from windows that one of my HDD's is starting to fail (Something to do with reallocate sectors being bad) anyway, this is not a problem I have a new HDD on order.
The HDD that is failing only has installed games and installed steam games on it. I have a seperate HDD used for windows.
My question is will I be able to transfer my games/steamapp games from my failing HDD (E to my NEW HDD (Lets say G using copy and paste method, and then remove HDD (E and throw it in the bin and then rename NEW HDD (G to (E, and carry on as though nothing has happened?
I know you couldn't do this if you install games on the same disk as the OS, but as I have installed the games away from the OS HDD will I just be able to trick windows into thinking it is the same HDD?
I have over 200 games, Steam and non-steam, the Steam games I'm not to bothered about as I know I can copy and paste the steamapps folder and steam will re-install or download what ever it needs to, but the others are all disc based and will need reinstalling etc.
Once again, I have no system files on the failing hard drive, I litterally just wanna pick everything up from the old and put on the new with the same path names etc.
Any thoughts
Regards