Moving Program Files

2008-11-05 17:39:41

#1

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6231|London, England

I just got my new Hard drive, 500gb and I wanted to move some stuff from my 160gb because it was maxed out. I'm not sure what I should put on my new drive so I was thinking I could move my entire program files folder which allots about 90gb over to my new drive and keep music, movies, documents on my 160 and program files and games on the 500gb. Haffey said I couldn't do this, is it a possible solution?

Alternately can you give me suggestions on what I should put on my new drive

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2008-11-05 18:14:06

#2

Defiance: Member; +438|6937

No reason you can't just copy it, but you won't have start menu shortcuts or installation entries unless you set those up manually.

2008-11-05 18:15:30

#3

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6720|The Twilight Zone

Some games will need to be reinstalled after copying is done.

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2008-11-05 18:19:38

#4

Flaming_Maniac: prince of insufficient light; +2,490|6973|67.222.138.85

It can fuck up your registry. Really better to just reinstall everything...

2008-11-05 18:21:25

#5

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6419|what

Mutantsteak wrote:
Alternately can you give me suggestions on what I should put on my new drive

Slave your old hdd and keep your new one pretty fresh and install new stuff.

Alternatively you could use one for windows + swap space and all other word docs, windows programs, etc. But keep the other drive for all your games, movies, music, etc.

2008-11-05 18:29:01

#6

Brasso: member; +1,549|6897

fuck you, i told you no already. i dont understand why you cant ever just take my word for it.

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2008-11-05 18:30:21

#7

.Sup: be nice; +2,646|6720|The Twilight Zone

haffeysucks wrote:
fuck you, i told you no already. i dont understand why you cant ever just take my word for it.

I'd just delete him from my xfire contacts

2008-11-05 19:09:35

#8

Mutantbear: Semi Constructive Criticism; +1,431|6231|London, England

haffeysucks wrote:
fuck you, i told you no already. i dont understand why you cant ever just take my word for it.

mutantsteak wrote:
Alternately can you give me suggestions on what I should put on my new drive

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2008-11-05 19:12:43

#9

Defiance: Member; +438|6937

Mutantsteak wrote:
haffeysucks wrote:
fuck you, i told you no already. i dont understand why you cant ever just take my word for it.
mutantsteak wrote:
Alternately can you give me suggestions on what I should put on my new drive

How about you do whatever you need to with the extra drive.

2008-11-05 19:13:30

#10

Stimey: +786|6386|Ontario | Canada

Mutantsteak wrote:
Alternately can you give me suggestions on what I should put on my new drive

Porn

2008-11-05 19:14:41

#11

Miggle: FUCK UBISOFT; +1,411|7008|FUCK UBISOFT

haffeysucks wrote:
fuck you, i told you no already. i dont understand why you cant ever just take my word for it.

ugh, I did too.

Max, get in vent.

2008-11-06 02:58:27

#12

Brasso: member; +1,549|6897

.Sup wrote:
haffeysucks wrote:
fuck you, i told you no already. i dont understand why you cant ever just take my word for it.
I'd just delete him from my xfire contacts

RL contacts too?

"people in ny have a general idea of how to drive. one of the pedals goes forward the other one prevents you from dying"

2008-11-06 04:11:01

#13

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

hold you horses!

What you can do is move your program files over, then change the drive letter of the new drive that that of the old drive in "right click computer --> manage --> disk management". Windows won't know the difference. Any apps left on the old drive won't work anymore though

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2008-11-06 06:22:17

#14

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6648|the land of bourbon

max wrote:
hold you horses!

What you can do is move your program files over, then change the drive letter of the new drive that that of the old drive in "right click computer --> manage --> disk management". Windows won't know the difference. Any apps left on the old drive won't work anymore though

wait, he will have to copy everything, including windows, from the old to the new before changing the drive letter... he cant change the new drive to c: if that is same letter his winOS is using. (unless he already has his programs installed on a different drive using a different letter, in which case just ignore me)

he could always mount the drive as a folder, and copy the program files to it. much easier to do than trying to copy everything and change the letter.

google for "mount a drive as a folder," there are lots of articles.

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-11-06 06:29:09)

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2008-11-06 06:24:12

#15

AussieReaper: ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°); +5,761|6419|what

steelie34 wrote:
he could always mount the drive as a folder

How do you do that?

2008-11-06 06:24:44

#16

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6648|the land of bourbon

TheAussieReaper wrote:
steelie34 wrote:
he could always mount the drive as a folder
How do you do that?

http://www.mydigitallife.info/2008/02/1 … n-windows/

mutant will want to rename his current program files folder to something like programbackup, and then create a new folder called program files. mount the new hard drive to that folder, and then copy everything from programbackup, to the new, bigger, program files folder. it will be completely transparent in the OS, since the drive path will still be c:\program files. but the actual folder will reside on the 500 gb beast.

i often use this a quick and dirty way to back up IIS webservers here at work. since IIS is a disaster of coding, it can be a bitch to back it up completely, so to make it easy, i just install IIS normally, but make sure the data is all installed and running on a mounted drive. then i just have to back up the hard drive without doing anything complicated

oh yeah btw...

Defiance wrote:
No reason you can't just copy it, but you won't have start menu shortcuts or installation entries unless you set those up manually.

/lolfail

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-11-06 06:33:25)

2008-11-06 06:39:46

#17

CrazeD: Member; +368|6939|Maine

You can always change the registry values, at least for some things. Some programs will recreate any required registry values.

2008-11-06 06:47:37

#18

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6648|the land of bourbon

CrazeD wrote:
You can always change the registry values, at least for some things. Some programs will recreate any required registry values.

thats way too difficult, and most certainly couldn't be done completely right.

2008-11-06 07:30:29

#19

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6834|NYC / Hamburg

steelie34 wrote:
max wrote:
hold you horses!

What you can do is move your program files over, then change the drive letter of the new drive that that of the old drive in "right click computer --> manage --> disk management". Windows won't know the difference. Any apps left on the old drive won't work anymore though
wait, he will have to copy everything, including windows, from the old to the new before changing the drive letter... he cant change the new drive to c: if that is same letter his winOS is using. (unless he already has his programs installed on a different drive using a different letter, in which case just ignore me)

he could always mount the drive as a folder, and copy the program files to it. much easier to do than trying to copy everything and change the letter.

google for "mount a drive as a folder," there are lots of articles.

you can't easily move windows around, but it would work for something like this:
HD0 C: windows
HD1 D: programs
HD2 E: new
=>
HD0 C: windows
HD1 E:
HD2 D: programs

if he only has 1 disk atm you can always clone it onto the bigger drive

Last edited by max (2008-11-06 07:30:58)

_{once upon a midnight dreary, while i pron surfed, weak and weary, over many a strange and spurious site of ' hot xxx galore'. While i clicked my fav'rite bookmark, suddenly there came a warning, and my heart was filled with mourning, mourning for my dear amour, " 'Tis not possible!", i muttered, " give me back my free hardcore!"..... quoth the server, 404.}

2008-11-06 07:48:11

#20

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6648|the land of bourbon

max wrote:
you can't easily move windows around, but it would work for something like this:
HD0 C: windows
HD1 D: programs
HD2 E: new
=>
HD0 C: windows
HD1 E:
HD2 D: programs

if he only has 1 disk atm you can always clone it onto the bigger drive

right, that could be done as long as it's separated already... cloning is also another way to go. i still like my mounting option though

Last edited by steelie34 (2008-11-06 07:51:36)

2008-11-06 07:49:18

#21

clone or mount. BOOOM

2008-11-06 08:18:31

#22

kylef: Gone; +1,352|6759|N. Ireland

Kimmmmmmmmmmmm wrote:
clone or mount. BOOOM

Back on the streets of bf2s I see kimmm

2008-11-06 08:23:54

#23

Yaocelotl: :D; +221|6916|Keyboard

At this point I think that the OP is confused, you should better re-install everything tbh.

2008-11-06 08:27:27

#24

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6648|the land of bourbon

Yaocelotl wrote:
At this point I think that the OP is confused, you should better re-install everything tbh.

confused bout what?

he can clone the the old drive to the new one... or mount the new one as a folder. doesn't seem too confusing to me

2008-11-06 09:56:58

#25

Yaocelotl: :D; +221|6916|Keyboard

steelie34 wrote:
Yaocelotl wrote:
At this point I think that the OP is confused, you should better re-install everything tbh.
confused bout what?

he can clone the the old drive to the new one... or mount the new one as a folder. doesn't seem too confusing to me

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