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I'd recommend to do it for max 200gb chunks so that you can do stuff in between the move. the HDD so it was transferring with like 50mb/s and I moved over 1TB of data so that took a while. Keep in mind the speed is limited to the slowest component - i.e. I literally just copy/pasted the folders from the HDD into the SSD via an SATA to USB cable. Whilst i didn't have as many heavily modded games as you, I did have maybe 10 games I moved over from steam.
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I already had an SSD where my OS is located so - like you - I had to mainly move games/films/etc from one to the other. Again, just don't alter anything on the HDD at all until you have verified everything works on the SSD.
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I'm fairly confident my way and abracmike's way will achieve the same results you are looking for without having issues with mods.
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My way 100% ensures you wouldn't have any issues regardless, and yes, still allows you to keep the HDD for crusty backups if you want.
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I would certainly like to think the paths are relative and not absolute, but if that was the case I don't think you'd be talking about modding paths considering as long as you knew how to install mods, say like WoW they go into \Interface\AddOns, you wouldn't have path issues outside of simply putting the mod in the wrong directory. What about my mod managers? Is moving my games from an HDD to an SSD going to corrupt their paths? Do I have to move the manager itself to the SSD?Without knowing what specifically you mean about the temperamental modding paths, the absolute only way you won't have to worry about path issues is copying the entire directory structure from HDD to SSD as I mentioned.
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However, those must be some horrible games and/or mods that require absolute paths to their directories instead of relative paths. It really would be that simple if you just copy everything in-place from the HDD to the SSD and then assign the SSD to the HDD's old drive letter. Turn on, if it doesn't automatically, assign the SSD to letter D, fire up a game and you should be done.Īfter validating every game and mod works you can do whatever with the HDD. And wait until it finishes a presumably lengthy transfer. HDD (is a secondary drive I imagine?) is assigned to letter D. If the current HDD is assigned to D:, and your Steam Library is under D:/Games/Steam, and you want to have the SSD be assigned to E:, and do E:/Steam Library, you'll have one hell of a time having to edit everything manually however. If you then remove the HDD and assign the SSD to the HDD's old drive letter nothing needs to be done. If you literally open the drive in explorer, Ctrl-A and then Ctrl-C, open the SSD in explorer and Ctrl-V it will copy everything in-place to the new drive. What's the best way to move games like this?Are you going to be replacing the HDD for the SSD? If so, you wouldn't have to change anything. I have a -lot- of mods installed in especially Morrowind and Skyrim, and I've had issues in the past from trying to "move" these files to other sources and it just annihilated my shit and I had to mod the games all over from scratch. Now, these games are so absurdly temperamental with modding paths and whatnot I just am afraid I'm going to break something hardcore. But I want to get an SSD card and put a lot of games on it for faster load times, especially my heavily modded games like Morrowind, Oblivion, Skyrim, and Fallout 4. My steam library isn't super impressive, only 67 games.