Reinstalling windows

[ViruZ_HUN]

hello!

 

 

I got around 400 GB of games installed on my PC. MY PC is starting to slow down and random frezzes and sometimes it is happending that when i press "shutdown" the computer frezze and whitescreen comes and nnothing happend.

 

So i am going to reinstall. But i dont want to redownload all games i installed. So what can i do to save that games during the installation. I only want to save the games and a few programs.

 

 

I want to save:

 

Steam folder: 246 GB

Origin folder: 79 GB

Sony vegas 12

GTA IV

 

Thats it?

 

So how can i do during the installation to save these folders?

[Elven]

 

hello!

 

 

I got around 400 GB of games installed on my PC. MY PC is starting to slow down and random frezzes and sometimes it is happending that when i press "shutdown" the computer frezze and whitescreen comes and nnothing happend.

 

So i am going to reinstall. But i dont want to redownload all games i installed. So what can i do to save that games during the installation. I only want to save the games and a few programs.

 

 

I want to save:

 

Steam folder: 246 GB

Origin folder: 79 GB

Sony vegas 12

GTA IV

 

Thats it?

 

So how can i do during the installation to save these folders?

 

Hey,

 

Are your steam games saved to a different hard drive or partition? You can copy the steam library to another device and when you reinstall windows put it back. Steam will rebuild the library in the client without downloading the games again.

 

I presume you can do the same with Origin. But it being EA, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't.

 

As for sony vegas and GTA 4. You might have to reinstall them fresh, for them to work properly.

 

At least with the Steam library back up, you can cross 246GB off the list  :lol:

 

Elven

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Copy your steamapps and origin folders to an external/another hard drive

Why do you need to save Sony Vegas? Why cant you just reinstall it? copy the relevant folder from appdata\roaming\ to keep your settings.

 

Reinstall windows, copy the files back, and it should be just like it was before.

[Deddie]

hello!

 

 

I got around 400 GB of games installed on my PC. MY PC is starting to slow down and random frezzes and sometimes it is happending that when i press "shutdown" the computer frezze and whitescreen comes and nnothing happend.

 

So i am going to reinstall. But i dont want to redownload all games i installed. So what can i do to save that games during the installation. I only want to save the games and a few programs.

 

 

I want to save:

 

Steam folder: 246 GB

Origin folder: 79 GB

Sony vegas 12

GTA IV

 

Thats it?

 

So how can i do during the installation to save these folders?

You can just copy them to a External HDD or something and then reinstall Steam/origin and copy the game to the right folders.

edit: too late

[ViruZ_HUN]

Hey,

 

Are your steam games saved to a different hard drive or partition? You can copy the steam library to another device and when you reinstall windows put it back. Steam will rebuild the library in the client without downloading the games again.

 

I presume you can do the same with Origin. But it being EA, I wouldn't be surprised if it doesn't.

 

As for sony vegas and GTA 4. You might have to reinstall them fresh, for them to work properly.

 

At least with the Steam library back up, you can cross 246GB off the list  :lol:

 

Elven

 

Copy your steamapps and origin folders to an external/another hard drive

Why do you need to save Sony Vegas? Why cant you just reinstall it? copy the relevant folder from appdata\roaming\ to keep your settings.

 

Reinstall windows, copy the files back, and it should be just like it was before.

Sony vegas is cracked...

You can just copy them to a External HDD or something and then reinstall Steam/origin and copy the game to the right folders.

edit: too late

 

Yes yes guys i already know this, i am not so dumb, but it would take över 30 hours to save it on another HDD and then back is 30 hours. I was more thinking about so i maybe could do a option in the reinstallation to save these..??

[Guest]

Create a temporary partition

[djdanster]

Before you reinstall, have you tried going into cmd with admin right and typing in "sfc /scannow" without the quotation marks? This is the system file checker; it's a function built into Windows that searches for and replaces damaged Windows system files. This may fix your issue of not being able to shut down correctly. Additionally, have a look in the event viewer and see if you get any errors.

 

Alternately, take a look at this:

 

http://www.gamesave-manager.com/?s=download

 

It'll search for and allow you to save the game save files.

[ViruZ_HUN]

Create a temporary partition

would not the installation affect it?

[djdanster]

Also, when you reinstall Windows, you don't have to format the HDD, so you could still leave all your files intact.

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

Sony vegas is cracked...

 

Yes yes guys i already know this, i am not so dumb, but it would take över 30 hours to save it on another HDD and then back is 30 hours. I was more thinking about so i maybe could do a option in the reinstallation to save these..??

Take it out of the enclosure and plug it into a SATA port then.

[ViruZ_HUN]

Take it out of the enclosure and plug it into a SATA port then.

?

[ViruZ_HUN]

i am going to try to make a partition....

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

?

Inside the external hard drive is a normal SATA disk. USB 2.0 reduces the speed it can write at by about half.

 

Just take it out of the enclosure it is in, and plug it in using SATA.

[Willson94]

When you install windows you can keep all your files. They will be sent to a folder called windows.old which you can then open and get the files you want from the previous windows installation, just don't click format when installing windwos

[xXxYOLOxSWAGxXx_420BlazeIt]

i am going to try to make a partition....

Windows will only shrink partitions towards the end of the disk. Your windows installation will be at the wrong end of the disk, so you would need to repeat the process twice to have a single partition containing all of your stuff.

[Willson94]

So you just go into the windows.old folder get your steam games or whatever from it then delete it when you're done with it

 

[ViruZ_HUN]

When you install windows you can keep all your files. They will be sent to a folder called windows.old which you can then open and get the files you want from the previous windows installation, just don't click format when installing windwos

doing it right now, I choosed the files to save, Hope it works:D thx!