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Is there a way to Easy (Key word= Easy) way to move games on the epic game launcher to another drive. Or if there is not a easy way can you tell me a deatiled way on how to move games to another drive.  I have tried to find a solution to this already but could not understand the instructions. 

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3 minutes ago, person223 said:

Is there a way to Easy (Key word= Easy) way to move games on the epic game launcher to another drive. Or if there is not a easy way can you tell me a deatiled way on how to move games to another drive.  I have tried to find a solution to this already but could not understand the instructions. 

 

Drive cloning tools such as Clonezilla or Acronis Disk Director would be an option, although if the games are tied to your account, then just reinstall the game platform and your games would be accessible on those devices as well.

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6 minutes ago, person223 said:

Is there a way to Easy (Key word= Easy) way to move games on the epic game launcher to another drive. Or if there is not a easy way can you tell me a deatiled way on how to move games to another drive.  I have tried to find a solution to this already but could not understand the instructions. 

The easiest would be to uninstall and re-install to the new drive, letting it download again.

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4 minutes ago, Boomwebsearch said:

 

Drive cloning tools such as Clonezilla or Acronis Disk Director would be an option, although if the games are tied to your account, then just reinstall the game platform and your games would be accessible on those devices as well.

I don't want to reinstall my games 

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3 minutes ago, person223 said:

I don't want to reinstall my games 

 

4 minutes ago, person223 said:

Oh i forgot to mention that I don't want to reinsatll games

The way that usually works without re-downloading would be as @Arika S suggested with copy and pasting the folders. If you don't want to re-install do as Arika suggested. You asked for the easiest way which would be to uninstall the games from the HDD you don't want them on then re-download them on the new like @svmlegacy said.

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2 minutes ago, person223 said:

I don't want to reinstall my games 

@Arika S solution is the one you want to use then (copy the game folder somewhere else, point the game to the new location, then "install it").

 

If that's not what you want, then there are other solutions, using system links, but that's nowhere near as easy at the above solution.

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10 minutes ago, person223 said:

I don't want to reinstall my games 

 

I don't have experience with Epic Games Launcher, although if they support any features allowing for games to be associated with a cloud account, then if you sign in to another computer drive with your account, everything should sync over.

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