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Hi I've just bought a 3TB WD Green Hard Drive, and I'm replacing a 500GB old drive in my gaming system. The question I'm asking is can i simply drag all my application folders into the new drive (e.g. Steam files, Origin Files) and run the games from there, or do i need to reinstall each game again? I'm not trying to start a "which drive is better" argument, just a "yes" or "no" will be fine. Thanks for your help.

 

 

Hey Killervolt,
 
Is the 500GB drive your boot drive with the OS on or you have another drive that holds your OS? Even if you have another drive with the OS, the paths to the games should still lead to the same place and the drive should have the same letter. I would recommend cloning the drive in which case you would have a 500GB partition with the same drive letter and 2.5TB of unallocated space which you can manage in the disk management menu. I would recommend using Acronis True Image, provided by WD. It is free and works pretty well. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=SgQFnz
 
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Hi I've just bought a 3TB WD Green Hard Drive, and I'm replacing a 500GB old drive in my gaming system. The question I'm asking is can i simply drag all my application folders into the new drive (e.g. Steam files, Origin Files) and run the games from there, or do i need to reinstall each game again? I'm not trying to start a "which drive is better" argument, just a "yes" or "no" will be fine. Thanks for your help.

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Depends. The best way of doing this as stated earlier is imaging. applications of that caliber dont like being moved by hand and should be uninstalled reinstalled. If you reinstalling windows then want top copy applications as is. It does work partially. I have heard of people copying steam game installers from pc to pc, however beyond that you need to reinstall.

 

Simple answer: if you are moving your entire installation as a whole across and dont want to reinstall everything use disk imaging.

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Hi I've just bought a 3TB WD Green Hard Drive, and I'm replacing a 500GB old drive in my gaming system. The question I'm asking is can i simply drag all my application folders into the new drive (e.g. Steam files, Origin Files) and run the games from there, or do i need to reinstall each game again? I'm not trying to start a "which drive is better" argument, just a "yes" or "no" will be fine. Thanks for your help.

 

 

Hey Killervolt,
 
Is the 500GB drive your boot drive with the OS on or you have another drive that holds your OS? Even if you have another drive with the OS, the paths to the games should still lead to the same place and the drive should have the same letter. I would recommend cloning the drive in which case you would have a 500GB partition with the same drive letter and 2.5TB of unallocated space which you can manage in the disk management menu. I would recommend using Acronis True Image, provided by WD. It is free and works pretty well. Here's a link: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=SgQFnz
 
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Ok thanks for your help, I'll try copying it over, and if it doesn't work I will reinstall the apps.

 

You are welcome :) do post back with the results.

 

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Sorry for asking another question, but I want to short-stroke my hard drive to get better performance, etc. I watched the NCIX video with using HD Tune Pro, but the problem was that I used the free 15 day trial on short stroking another hard drive about 6 months ago. So I was wondering if there is another tool that does the same thing or can I do it in windows 8.1? Thanks in advance.

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Sorry for asking another question, but I want to short-stroke my hard drive to get better performance, etc. I watched the NCIX video with using HD Tune Pro, but the problem was that I used the free 15 day trial on short stroking another hard drive about 6 months ago. So I was wondering if there is another tool that does the same thing or can I do it in windows 8.1? Thanks in advance.

 

Well generally for short stroking you simply need to see where the performance of the drive drops below what you need (at which GB part) and partition it to that size. WD does not officially support short stroking and there is no official tool, but there are a number of free to use tools that can help you benchmark any drive and see where on the drive platter does the speed decline. :) The video that you saw explains it pretty well and uses only free tools. :)
 
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