Thank you so much for this! I wanted to uninstall my game that was 150 gb for a long time but I didn't want to ruin the save file I had on it, and I found this video which saved my storage problem as well as my safe file. :)
My laptop screen broke so I could not move my game which (I'm ashamed to say) had over a 1000 hours logged into it. Thank you so much, it was straight to the point and easy to understand. You didn't assume we knew anything such as changing the letter of the hard drive and it was very much appreciated.
Such an underrated vid if compared to the other ones out there for the same query.. Your content is awesome, well detailed while being at the point.. Subscribed!! :))
your the best I had to delete gtav on my SSD cause I had low space, and I thought I would have to install it again on my hard drive which would take forever
Thanks for the video, very easy to follow for simple minds like me! Was able to make the updates on almost all of the platforms as you were going through them! Cheers
the video is so helpful, but there's one thing that you're missing for the xbox and that is you need to format the external hard drive to ntfs in order for your pc to recognize it a hard drive for your xbox games on pc
NTFS is the recommended format for windows hard drives so I took it as a given, but far point, always better to be explicit! 😊 Thanks for helping out others on this channel Christian. 👍
big help. thank you. i wasnt able to figure out epic. i didnt have the same install option as you. i will just redownload it onto my new drive manually.
I’m trying to move my sims to my hard drive I thought I could just copy the steps for Origin but recently they changed it all to EA games so I can’t right click and move the game is there another way pleaseee
your info videos are always understandable and on point! thanks as always Sir! I just got my half life Alyx working with the uses of VR Desktop apps, Awesome! Stay amazing! 🔥🔥👍
For the Xbox game pass I don’t see a option to change where my games will be downloaded, is it because my external hard drive is using a password? Also I’m using an sandisk
Am I limited to 26 external storage drives per pc if I use USB flash drives? Last time I checked usb allows external storage to daisy chain up to 128 devices connected at once.
for Blizzard... after creating a new folder in my new HD, when i try to move folders to select a folder, it says "folder doesn't contain the correct version of this game. Check the installation path and try again. pls help.
Is progress on steam video games and progress on blizzard games transferred over to the new folder locations? I beat the first witcher and want to keep my saved game progress.
If the drive letter was the same on both then it might work. Haven't tried myself. You would need to be logged into a game pass account on each PC to be able to play the games. Give it a go and let everyone know how you go. 🙂
I’m having an issue transferring my SIMS game to my EHD. I have the seagate HD. When I copy and move it to the hd, it shows up but when I go to play…my cc isn’t showing.
@@MyTechGearGaming do these methods still work for you? I can't get the new EA app beta (origin doesn't work with EA play the website says) and Xbox game pass to work. I can get Xbox game pass to work after a lot of searching, but as soon as I reboot or maybe disconnect my external ssd, I get an error that says "parameter incorrect" or some bull****. EA app beta just doesn't show any way to move games and I don't feel like re-downloading a game to the external drive to test right now and moving it manually, doesn't work easily if at all. Nightmare that these tiny small time companies with billions of euro's can't even make something, that steam just does brilliantly, work.
Great content, thank you..... what about settings like key bindings... for example battlefield 2042, ive messed with almost all setting like hud elements, key bindings etc.... thanks
Key bindings are a very individual thing. I’d always recommend starting with the defaults first and then tweaking if you need to. You can also search online for key bindings that famous players use in case that gives you some ideas to try.
@@MyTechGearGaming hey thanks, I've got my settings perfect that's why I was asking to see if appdata folder or documents folder where some of the config files are for game... wondering if those can be moved over to new pc
Ah. That makes more sense! 😊 it will depend on the game but they should get copied over. I’d always recommend testing once the game is moved over to make sure.
Not that I've been able to get working. As of 2 days ago, Microsoft are testing an open way of installing games on PC as part of their insider program. This would allow you to manage games far more easily, similar to how Steam and other game platforms do it. No ETA on when that will be made available as a general release though.
so if i copy the entire program files folder to my new ssd and change the name to that of the old one i can just continue playing my games without losing progress?
Everything worked except for xbox gamepass for pc games. I connected my usb 3 external drive on PC 1, moved all games to that external drive. I hooked it up on PC2, launched xbox app but it didn't detect the games. I had set it up as Z letter drive on both PCs. I took ownership of folders where xbox usually saves the downloaded game, there are no game files there at all, it shows just remnants of some files for the game in kilobytes. I went back to PC 1, games are not there either. Looks like xbox app deleted my games god knows for what reason. It was over 400 GBs of games ughhhh. This may work for the same PC where you are just moving files around, absolutely will not work if you are trying to move across different PCs. Be warned. It sucks having to redownload them all.. ughhg ughh
I tested this with game pass on 2 different PCs and could load a game onto an external drive and share between the two PCs. You do need to give it the same drive letter on each machine, and ensure that you are logged into the same game pass account on each PC for it to work though.
I have no option to move install folder. It just says backup games files and verify integrity of files. I'm trying verify integrity of files right now and if that doesn't work I'm going to do backup game files
Hi man, thanks a lot for the video I’ve been trying to figure out how to transfer games between pc’s as I build a lot of pcs for fun and sell them and I hate having to redoenload games every time I make a new pc. It makes it a streamlined process of benchmarking my pc. One question, is the speed of an Sata SSD the same as the speed of an external SSD? In terms of loading games and such? Thanks!
Also, can I have all of the launchers on an external SSD as well not just the games? That way when I switch to a new pc I can just plug in the external SSD and I won’t even have to download all the launchers either?
@Nate, I did some speed tests covering SSDs, NVMe's and HDD's which should help you here. You can check it out here ua-cam.com/video/3Nq3czYL-aQ/v-deo.html
@Nate, I've had trouble with installing launchers on non-main drives. Even when you select an external drive some still install some files in your Program Files directory on your C drive so they're never truly on your external drive. So, I tend to play it safe and just stick the launchers on the main drive.
Is it compulsory to format the external hard drive? I don't really understand the entire format situation, and I can't get a clear answer whether it is necessary or not to format a drive for gaming
Is it possible to place games from different launchers into one single game folder? Steam auto creates subfolders (steamapp) and a few loose files under the destination folder which prevents what I wanted to achieve.
I have a single 'games' folder and then each launcher has its own sub folder under that. E.g. a sub folder for steam, ea, origin etc, and that works fine. Is that what you were after?
@@MyTechGearGamingSorry what I meant is each game has its own folder under the folder of ‘games’, without categorising under launcher subfolders. Apparently Steam isn’t allowing individual folder for a single game without a subfolder called steamapp.
As you’re moving the whole directory over then it should move everything with it. I’m sure they’ll be some exceptions here though as it depends on where the game is storing your progress.
Does it work with game pass games? For example i have Battlefront 2 with Xbox Game Pass/EA Play with EA Desktop App. How can I transfer this game to a external SSD?
Hey, I am trying to move Apex Legends to my D drive because it needed an update that couldn't fit in the drive, but the game needs to be updated to move any tips on how to do that?
depends on the size of the update. If the update is as big as the game then you might as well redownload it. If it's not that big an update though then you could look at clearing your cache in your browser and also the temp folder on your PC to help free up some space on your PC.
Did you add the new folder destination to the 'Steam Library Folders' in the Steam App's Settings? If you didn't, then Steam only has one destination folder by default, so there's nowhere to move a game to, so the move option is not available. It was the 1st step you needed to do. Let me know if doing that fixed it for you.
@@MyTechGearGaming it was in a group, in steam you can organize games into different groups, if you want to do it by series or genre, if you categorize these games then you can't move them from the sidebar. you have to do it from the right side when all your games appear.
I went out of settings when i was moving my xbox game and when i went back it wasn't doing anything and when i try to move it again it wont let me is there a way i can move?
If you quit out if it whilst it was moving your data then it could be in a weird half say state. Your only option might be to install it from scratch. Before doing that though, restart your PC and try again and see if that fixes it for you.
Please help me here ...... I have GTA5 installed in my external har drive , now every time I reboot the system epic games fail to recognize it . It has to be verified every time I reboot
Does it do that with every game in the Epic store for you or just GTA5? Is it just verifying the install, or re-downloading it and installing it again?
5:50 I didnt understand how you copied it, i dont know if i rename it in the C drive and drag it over to the D drive or if i did control C on the file and renamed it when it was finished moving, could someone help?
it wont work for some reason, when i copied the fortnite folder into my D drive and renamed it and tried to start installing it still said that i didnt have enough space in C drive but i prob did something wrong, though idk what i would have done wrong@@MyTechGearGaming
@emiliesandenejordanengen6642 you want to be installing to your new drive, not the c drive. I have done an updated guide to this so it might be worth checking those out to see if it helps you better.
hey ive got a question, im trying to transfer the sims4 including all its mod packs into a usb hard drive with the format exfat, they said i shouldnt transfer more than 4gb to avoid issues but like is the only option to manually copy paste the files so it doesnt exceed 4gb every single time? hope to get some insight on this thanks man
Haven’t done it myself so can’t talk from experience. Exfat has a 4gb single file size limit, not total transfer limit so don’t know why you were told to move it over a few files at a time. Why are you using exfat anyway? Windows recommends NTFS for external drives.
I hate when ppl skip steps. Im in epic games and definitely by no means computer savey. Thats y im watching this yet you skip steps…i copied the “fortnite” file (not really fortnite) and changed the name to “_fortnite” you said i just needed to go back to epic games and click install… well it wouldnt let me install it cause it was already installed. You skipped the part where i had uninstall it first then reinstall it
Ii sound like you missed a few steps in the video as it shouldn’t have to uninstall it. I did do a dedicated video that just took you through the steps for epic that you might find easier to follow as it’s more up to date.
with Epic Games if the game has yet to be installed can I just install in on the hard drive or do I still have to go through and do all the copy and pasting?
When you install a new game you can choose the directory that you want to install to at the time of installation, so just install it direct onto your new drive.
EA Desktop is essentially the successor/next version of Origins. It's still in Beta version at the moment though and doesn't have a move folder option. I tried moving the drive manually, and setting the default folder to the new drive, but EA Desktop kept trying to re-install it to the old location. Looks like for now the only option is to re-install to the new drive location at the moment. Hopefully they add the 'move folder' option too it before it comes out of Beta. In the meantime, the Origins app still works. I'd suggest using that to move your games, and then switching over to the EA Desktop app afterwards.
@@MyTechGearGaming thank you bro...appreciate the effort...I have ea desktop basically due to game pass...which gives free ea desktop access...for ea play games....beta apps sucks in general...have a nice day And do games run slower in external hard disk?
It will depend on the game. Some might just work by cut and pasting to a new drive, but some games include drive paths in registry keys when they install so depend on them being on the original location try it, and if it doesn't work you'll have to Uninstall and then reinstall to the new drive.
As others have stated: thanks for getting straight to the point!
Great video
Thanks, and glad you enjoyed it! 😊
Thank you so much for this! I wanted to uninstall my game that was 150 gb for a long time but I didn't want to ruin the save file I had on it, and I found this video which saved my storage problem as well as my safe file. :)
Thanks! Glad it helped you. 🙂
My laptop screen broke so I could not move my game which (I'm ashamed to say) had over a 1000 hours logged into it. Thank you so much, it was straight to the point and easy to understand. You didn't assume we knew anything such as changing the letter of the hard drive and it was very much appreciated.
I'm glad you found it helpful and sorry to hear about your laptop screen. Hope you manage to get it fixed or replaced ok.
Such an underrated vid if compared to the other ones out there for the same query.. Your content is awesome, well detailed while being at the point.. Subscribed!! :))
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful.🙂
Man thank you u i hope u earn milion subscribers
Thanks, and welcome to the channel! 🙂
This is a great video, no nonsense.Straight to the point, Thank you!
You're welcome! Glad you enjoyed it and found it helpful Liam 🙂
@@MyTechGearGaming i wish you had a step by step instead of just talking about something you already did
This is a step by step guide. If there's something you're stuck on though please let me know.
Thank you so much! You went straight to the point.
Happy to help! 🙂
your the best I had to delete gtav on my SSD cause I had low space, and I thought I would have to install it again on my hard drive which would take forever
Glad it helped you! 🙂
Thanks for the video, very easy to follow for simple minds like me! Was able to make the updates on almost all of the platforms as you were going through them! Cheers
Great to hear! Enjoy! 😊
No bs, but just fantastic tutorial. Well done!
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it! 🙂
the video is so helpful, but there's one thing that you're missing for the xbox and that is you need to format the external hard drive to ntfs in order for your pc to recognize it a hard drive for your xbox games on pc
NTFS is the recommended format for windows hard drives so I took it as a given, but far point, always better to be explicit! 😊 Thanks for helping out others on this channel Christian. 👍
LEGEND MATE
all other videos just waste my time, THANK U!
You're welcome Matthew. Enjoy! 😊
Thank you sooo much!
I have a game in EA but i couldn't find the 'move' bottom so i just deleted and reinstalled..
big help. thank you. i wasnt able to figure out epic. i didnt have the same install option as you. i will just redownload it onto my new drive manually.
Awesome video. This was exactly what I needed!
Glad I could help Elijah. Enjoy! 😊
epic works for me thanks you so much .... but i think you forget to unnistall the game
Thanks sir. This tutorial has helped me tremendously!
You’re welcome. Glad it helped you. 😊
Big help bro. very new to this pc stuff and had no idea about this hehe. Cheers boi :D
No problem James! 👍
I’m trying to move my sims to my hard drive I thought I could just copy the steps for Origin but recently they changed it all to EA games so I can’t right click and move the game is there another way pleaseee
your info videos are always understandable and on point!
thanks as always Sir! I just got my half life Alyx working with the uses of VR Desktop apps, Awesome!
Stay amazing! 🔥🔥👍
Thanks so much, and I’m glad the videos have helped you! 😊
Absolute Legend, Thank You!
You're welcome Alex. Enjoy! 🙂
the best, cheers mate
No problem. Enjoy! 😊
thank you, this helped
Thank you for this, it helped.
You’re welcome. Enjoy! 😊
super helpful!!!!!!
Thanks! 🙂
Thanks 👍🏻
You’re welcome! 😊
Very Helpful video Thank you
You’re welcome! 😊
For the Xbox game pass I don’t see a option to change where my games will be downloaded, is it because my external hard drive is using a password? Also I’m using an sandisk
thankyou very much
No problem! 😊
Thank you for this vide
You’re welcome. I did do an updated version of it too.
hey im kinda confused in moving cold war can we have a private call or somthing?
Am I limited to 26 external storage drives per pc if I use USB flash drives? Last time I checked usb allows external storage to daisy chain up to 128 devices connected at once.
for Blizzard...
after creating a new folder in my new HD, when i try to move folders to select a folder, it says "folder doesn't contain the correct version of this game. Check the installation path and try again. pls help.
We can't use Origin anymore, the new app EA play is trash, theres no option to do this.
Hey man, what if the game has already been installed? How do I move it then? Please answer, the games are taking close to 150 GB of space.
For which platform?
@@MyTechGearGaming EPIC GAMES
I show you how to do it in the video @5.14 summary steps are also in the description.
Thanks a lot
You're welcome! 🙂
Is progress on steam video games and progress on blizzard games transferred over to the new folder locations? I beat the first witcher and want to keep my saved game progress.
Do you know if I can transfer game pass games on the new hard-drive to another pc and play them?
If the drive letter was the same on both then it might work. Haven't tried myself. You would need to be logged into a game pass account on each PC to be able to play the games. Give it a go and let everyone know how you go. 🙂
You basically saved my ass! Thank you!
You're welcome. Enjoy David! 😊
thanks!
You're welcome Vincent. 🙂
I’m having an issue transferring my SIMS game to my EHD. I have the seagate HD. When I copy and move it to the hd, it shows up but when I go to play…my cc isn’t showing.
Good video, but you missed a critical aspect. The format of the drive. Pc xbox game pass needs nfts for a lot of games. Wish I knew that before :(
NTFS is the default disk format for Windows PCs, but it's a good tip to share. Thanks.
@@MyTechGearGaming do these methods still work for you? I can't get the new EA app beta (origin doesn't work with EA play the website says) and Xbox game pass to work. I can get Xbox game pass to work after a lot of searching, but as soon as I reboot or maybe disconnect my external ssd, I get an error that says "parameter incorrect" or some bull****. EA app beta just doesn't show any way to move games and I don't feel like re-downloading a game to the external drive to test right now and moving it manually, doesn't work easily if at all. Nightmare that these tiny small time companies with billions of euro's can't even make something, that steam just does brilliantly, work.
Great content, thank you..... what about settings like key bindings... for example battlefield 2042, ive messed with almost all setting like hud elements, key bindings etc.... thanks
Key bindings are a very individual thing. I’d always recommend starting with the defaults first and then tweaking if you need to. You can also search online for key bindings that famous players use in case that gives you some ideas to try.
@@MyTechGearGaming hey thanks, I've got my settings perfect that's why I was asking to see if appdata folder or documents folder where some of the config files are for game... wondering if those can be moved over to new pc
Ah. That makes more sense! 😊 it will depend on the game but they should get copied over. I’d always recommend testing once the game is moved over to make sure.
THANK YOU SO MUCH!!
You're welcome! 😊
will microsoft game pass games read on another device if i plug the hard drive in somewhere else.
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Not that I've been able to get working. As of 2 days ago, Microsoft are testing an open way of installing games on PC as part of their insider program. This would allow you to manage games far more easily, similar to how Steam and other game platforms do it. No ETA on when that will be made available as a general release though.
Of course for steam there's no option to to choose where to send the game. Only verify integrity and backup.
Check well again sir. Steam has the option to send the game anywhere u want. I always doing that when my drive ran out of space sometimes.
If anyone could help In epic games it doesn’t show install for my games
I know you mentioned slower load speeds but will it directly affect the game performance such as ping fps etc
No it doesn’t affect the performance of the game. Your ping rate and fps are not affected.
@MyTechGear thank you
You’re welcome! 😊
I have installed gta v using 7 launcher in my laptop. Can I transfer that to new computer and play without reinstalling
when i go to move my game it says this app is not supported on my new drive? this is for 10:08
Do you have enough free disc space on the target drive? And does it do it for all games or just certain ones?
@@MyTechGearGaming it does it for all my games and there's a lot of space
What's the 2nd drive formatted as? It should be ntfs for best compatibility.
@@MyTechGearGaming i have just been playing around with it and its working i got no idea why iit said that but after a restarted my pc it worked
The good old "turn it off and turn it back on again"...works every time! 😃
so if i copy the entire program files folder to my new ssd and change the name to that of the old one i can just continue playing my games without losing progress?
Generally, yes, as most games either save progress in that same folder or to the cloud.
@@MyTechGearGaming thanks for the response man, i've been dreading moving my games for a while now xd
good video
Thanks! 😊
@@MyTechGearGaming np
I wish I could hug you
😀 glad you found the video helpful, and welcome to the channel! 🙂
Everything worked except for xbox gamepass for pc games. I connected my usb 3 external drive on PC 1, moved all games to that external drive. I hooked it up on PC2, launched xbox app but it didn't detect the games. I had set it up as Z letter drive on both PCs. I took ownership of folders where xbox usually saves the downloaded game, there are no game files there at all, it shows just remnants of some files for the game in kilobytes. I went back to PC 1, games are not there either. Looks like xbox app deleted my games god knows for what reason. It was over 400 GBs of games ughhhh. This may work for the same PC where you are just moving files around, absolutely will not work if you are trying to move across different PCs. Be warned. It sucks having to redownload them all.. ughhg ughh
did you find anyway around that ? .. i'm trying to move Forza horizon 5 to another pc
I tested this with game pass on 2 different PCs and could load a game onto an external drive and share between the two PCs. You do need to give it the same drive letter on each machine, and ensure that you are logged into the same game pass account on each PC for it to work though.
I have no option to move install folder. It just says backup games files and verify integrity of files. I'm trying verify integrity of files right now and if that doesn't work I'm going to do backup game files
Same
Im not see move installed folder. What do I do?
for which game store?
Hi man, thanks a lot for the video I’ve been trying to figure out how to transfer games between pc’s as I build a lot of pcs for fun and sell them and I hate having to redoenload games every time I make a new pc. It makes it a streamlined process of benchmarking my pc. One question, is the speed of an Sata SSD the same as the speed of an external SSD? In terms of loading games and such? Thanks!
Also, can I have all of the launchers on an external SSD as well not just the games? That way when I switch to a new pc I can just plug in the external SSD and I won’t even have to download all the launchers either?
@Nate, I did some speed tests covering SSDs, NVMe's and HDD's which should help you here. You can check it out here ua-cam.com/video/3Nq3czYL-aQ/v-deo.html
@Nate, I've had trouble with installing launchers on non-main drives. Even when you select an external drive some still install some files in your Program Files directory on your C drive so they're never truly on your external drive. So, I tend to play it safe and just stick the launchers on the main drive.
Is it compulsory to format the external hard drive? I don't really understand the entire format situation, and I can't get a clear answer whether it is necessary or not to format a drive for gaming
You have to format any hard drive before you can use it for anything, not just gaming.
When you say copy are we right clicking and copying from epic games to the folder we created or are we moving it
you would copy it over. You'd delete it once the copy over is successful.
Is it possible to place games from different launchers into one single game folder? Steam auto creates subfolders (steamapp) and a few loose files under the destination folder which prevents what I wanted to achieve.
I have a single 'games' folder and then each launcher has its own sub folder under that. E.g. a sub folder for steam, ea, origin etc, and that works fine. Is that what you were after?
@@MyTechGearGamingSorry what I meant is each game has its own folder under the folder of ‘games’, without categorising under launcher subfolders. Apparently Steam isn’t allowing individual folder for a single game without a subfolder called steamapp.
Ok. Haven't tried that myself. Would be good to know why you're trying to do that. Others here might be able to help too.
When I move the steam game over to the other drive do my save files move with it ? If not is there a way I can make them do so?
As you’re moving the whole directory over then it should move everything with it. I’m sure they’ll be some exceptions here though as it depends on where the game is storing your progress.
Yes it all worked and the saves cam with it too thanks for the reply though.
9:09 when i try to switch it it just switches back immediatly. does anyone know why?
Does it work with game pass games? For example i have Battlefront 2 with Xbox Game Pass/EA Play with EA Desktop App. How can I transfer this game to a external SSD?
Just follow the instructions for whichever app you installed the game from.
can u do this and put the games only in harddrive and when u wanna play u put the hardisk in pc?
That's what I did with an external USB drive.
When I try to move my game to disk d it says I can't, please some one help :,)
Which store are you trying to do this with, and is disk d mounted on your pc? Does it give you a reason why it can’t?
Hey, I am trying to move Apex Legends to my D drive because it needed an update that couldn't fit in the drive, but the game needs to be updated to move any tips on how to do that?
depends on the size of the update. If the update is as big as the game then you might as well redownload it. If it's not that big an update though then you could look at clearing your cache in your browser and also the temp folder on your PC to help free up some space on your PC.
Will external ubs hard drive work for Sims 4 and Sims 4 mods/CC?
There's no reason aa to why a game wouldn't work. Haven't tried with sims4 though so you'll have to give it a go and let everyone know how you go.
When I try this on XBOX live on my sons PC it won’t let me and says the selected folder is on (C:)
Did you manage to sort this out?
@@MyTechGearGaming yes, after a simple system restart all was well.
Glad you got it sorted. Turn it off and back on again always seems to sort out most things! 😀 Enjoy.
steam doesn't work because the move install folder doesn't show up
Did you add the new folder destination to the 'Steam Library Folders' in the Steam App's Settings? If you didn't, then Steam only has one destination folder by default, so there's nowhere to move a game to, so the move option is not available. It was the 1st step you needed to do. Let me know if doing that fixed it for you.
@@MyTechGearGaming Nevermind, it's because the games i was trying to fix were categorized
What do mean by 'categorized'? It might help out other people with similar problems.
@@MyTechGearGaming it was in a group, in steam you can organize games into different groups, if you want to do it by series or genre, if you categorize these games then you can't move them from the sidebar. you have to do it from the right side when all your games appear.
after i did this with csgo and tried to run the game it says unable to load version from steam.inf am I doing something wrong pls tell me??
have you tried verifying the game files in steam?
I went out of settings when i was moving my xbox game and when i went back it wasn't doing anything and when i try to move it again it wont let me is there a way i can move?
If you quit out if it whilst it was moving your data then it could be in a weird half say state. Your only option might be to install it from scratch. Before doing that though, restart your PC and try again and see if that fixes it for you.
Please help me here ...... I have GTA5 installed in my external har drive , now every time I reboot the system epic games fail to recognize it . It has to be verified every time I reboot
Does it do that with every game in the Epic store for you or just GTA5? Is it just verifying the install, or re-downloading it and installing it again?
5:50 I didnt understand how you copied it, i dont know if i rename it in the C drive and drag it over to the D drive or if i did control C on the file and renamed it when it was finished moving, could someone help?
copy it over to the new location first and then rename it once it's copied across.
it wont work for some reason, when i copied the fortnite folder into my D drive and renamed it and tried to start installing it still said that i didnt have enough space in C drive but i prob did something wrong, though idk what i would have done wrong@@MyTechGearGaming
@emiliesandenejordanengen6642 you want to be installing to your new drive, not the c drive. I have done an updated guide to this so it might be worth checking those out to see if it helps you better.
Lol it’s so much simpler now all you need to do is move content through steam
I recently did a more up-to-date guide for Steam which you can check out here ua-cam.com/video/Ca8kuc_E4sM/v-deo.html
could i delete the games on my c drive after im done transferring everything?
Yes. Once they are on the new drive you don't need them on the original drive any more.
god damn i just realized how stupid i am to understanding basic things
I hope the video helped! 😊
hey ive got a question, im trying to transfer the sims4 including all its mod packs into a usb hard drive with the format exfat, they said i shouldnt transfer more than 4gb to avoid issues but like is the only option to manually copy paste the files so it doesnt exceed 4gb every single time? hope to get some insight on this thanks man
Haven’t done it myself so can’t talk from experience. Exfat has a 4gb single file size limit, not total transfer limit so don’t know why you were told to move it over a few files at a time. Why are you using exfat anyway? Windows recommends NTFS for external drives.
For x-box game pass games, do I get cross progression?
It depends on the game as it's up to the game developers to enable this.
I hate when ppl skip steps. Im in epic games and definitely by no means computer savey. Thats y im watching this yet you skip steps…i copied the “fortnite” file (not really fortnite) and changed the name to “_fortnite” you said i just needed to go back to epic games and click install… well it wouldnt let me install it cause it was already installed. You skipped the part where i had uninstall it first then reinstall it
Ii sound like you missed a few steps in the video as it shouldn’t have to uninstall it. I did do a dedicated video that just took you through the steps for epic that you might find easier to follow as it’s more up to date.
with Epic Games if the game has yet to be installed can I just install in on the hard drive or do I still have to go through and do all the copy and pasting?
When you install a new game you can choose the directory that you want to install to at the time of installation, so just install it direct onto your new drive.
So can i just make a folder on the drive called epic games and install them in that?
Yes
Ok thanks soo much ❤
You're welcome.
Why is Epic so difficult 😂 they should've planned for this.
I know! It’s not like it’s an uncommon thing to do either! Hope the guide helped you.
Its not showing an option to move my apps
Which one isn't showing the option? What part isn't working for you?
Can you say about ea desktop?
EA Desktop is essentially the successor/next version of Origins. It's still in Beta version at the moment though and doesn't have a move folder option. I tried moving the drive manually, and setting the default folder to the new drive, but EA Desktop kept trying to re-install it to the old location. Looks like for now the only option is to re-install to the new drive location at the moment. Hopefully they add the 'move folder' option too it before it comes out of Beta. In the meantime, the Origins app still works. I'd suggest using that to move your games, and then switching over to the EA Desktop app afterwards.
@@MyTechGearGaming thank you bro...appreciate the effort...I have ea desktop basically due to game pass...which gives free ea desktop access...for ea play games....beta apps sucks in general...have a nice day
And do games run slower in external hard disk?
No problem. Happy to help. Games don't run slower when playing on an external hard drive, but they will take longer to load.
epic games didnt work
can i do it with games i download from google?
It will depend on the game. Some might just work by cut and pasting to a new drive, but some games include drive paths in registry keys when they install so depend on them being on the original location try it, and if it doesn't work you'll have to Uninstall and then reinstall to the new drive.
@@MyTechGearGaming ok thanks for the help
No problem 😊
can i do ubisoft?
Yes. It follows the same similar steps as the battle.net instructions
@@MyTechGearGaming ok thanks