Last edited by MECtallica (2007-05-16 15:27:29)
Last edited by Cerpin_Taxt (2007-05-16 15:35:18)
It depends on the game. It will work fine with most games out there, but you won't be able to install patches.The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Formatting will erase all data on the drive, so what you want to do wouldn't work. What you'll likely have to do is reinstall all your games, since simply copying them from one drive to another won't work. Music, movies, pics and etc. can just be copied from drive to drive. Get the new drive formatted and Windows installed and running, then connect the old drive and copy the files from it.
Last edited by MECtallica (2007-05-16 21:28:08)
You're all going about this the hard way:CrazeD wrote:
It depends on the game. It will work fine with most games out there, but you won't be able to install patches.The Stillhouse Kid wrote:
Formatting will erase all data on the drive, so what you want to do wouldn't work. What you'll likely have to do is reinstall all your games, since simply copying them from one drive to another won't work. Music, movies, pics and etc. can just be copied from drive to drive. Get the new drive formatted and Windows installed and running, then connect the old drive and copy the files from it.
You can use a HDD utility like the one Western Digital offers (free of charge) to duplicate your OS partition onto another drive. Or you can buy your damn software and music.MECtallica wrote:
Okay, well I plan on buying a new HDD when the monthes over, and formatting it and making it my main and trashing this current, but the thing is I dont want to re-download all my music and games, can I hook up the sata 3gb/s unformatted and boot on this current HDD, then put music/iso games onto the sata, then format it or what?
OEM drives often arrive in an unpartitioned state, as do (with a few exceptions) some retail ones.Cerpin_Taxt wrote:
The SATA drive needs to be formatted before you can transfer your files to it. Just put them on a separate partition from your windows install.
Why do you have an unformatted drive?
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