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Ok. So I'm upgrading to a ssd soon. I have a ton of games on my 2tb drive. When I install my ssd I want to be able to keep all of my games on the hard drive without reinstalling them. How would I go about doing this?

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Keep them on the Hdd?

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saddly not, A sector clone would do this but you would need a 2TB+ SSD to do this :(

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mmm if you have a copy of your windows installation on a disc or usb drive then you could use that to install the windows only on the ssd.

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Ok. So I'm upgrading to a ssd soon. I have a ton of games on my 2tb drive. When I install my ssd I want to be able to keep all of my games on the hard drive without reinstalling them. How would I go about doing this?

If they're on your HDD you're fine. 

Are you using Steam for your games?

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saddly not, A sector clone would do this but you would need a 2TB+ SSD to do this :(

but can you not back up the windows install partition from the HDD to the SDD and then you would have windows in SSD and games in HDD??

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Just leave your games on your HDD and do a clean install of Windows on your SSD. When you are done with that set up your BIOS to boot from your SSD so that your clean install will be utilized and your games will be played off of your HDD.

 

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Are the games on Steam? if yes, don't worry. Install Windows onto the SSD and delete everything from the HDD except of your game library (SteamApps folder). Then install Steam on the HDD, copy the SteamApps folder into the new Steam folder on the HDD and restart Steam. It should now show the games as "installed" although  Windows doesn't know that they are installed. If you are OK with that then you are finished. If you are not OK with that then I don't know how else I can help you. If don't have your games on Steam then I just wasted your and my time and I am very sorry for that. But maybe someone else has a better idea....

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Are the games on Steam? if yes, don't worry. Install Windows onto the SSD and delete everything from the HDD except of your game library (SteamApps folder). Then install Steam on the HDD, copy the SteamApps folder into the new Steam folder on the HDD and restart Steam. It should now show the games as "installed" although  Windows doesn't know that they are installed. If you are OK with that then you are finished. If you are not OK with that then I don't know how else I can help you. If don't have your games on Steam then I just wasted your and my time and I am very sorry for that. But maybe someone else has a better idea....

Only like 40% of my games are steam games unfortunately 

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