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28-Mar-2007, 12:38 AM #1
Moving game files hard drive to hard drive
I just got a new comp and want to move my Galaxies and Godfather game files from one drive to the other.

I am wondering if anyone knows how get this to work, or, get it so i can run the program from a different drive than my primary drive.

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28-Mar-2007, 01:30 AM #2
Cool Moving Woes
While you can probably transfer the files you will not be able to correct the registry entries which direct your system to those files new locations. Reinstall is your only real option.
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28-Mar-2007, 02:30 AM #3
You should be able to move your save game files, but for the whole game, sins is correct, you will still have to reinstall the game/s.
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30-Mar-2007, 12:30 AM #4
rats

well, thanks anyway.
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30-Mar-2007, 02:10 AM #5
If the case you want to put your old drive on your new drive, there are programs that will clone your old drive and copy it onto the new drive. But other than that...

actually thinking about that... I had installed games on a different partition. When I did a clean wipe of my Win XP and put Vista on, it suprized me when the games that used more than one disc for installation, it only used the first one this time around. I'm assuming that it's because I reinstalled the game over the original directory. It may be possible that you can move the whole directory, then reinstall it and still have your saved games there.
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