Can I change the directory from where games starts?

Today when I started up my computer, S.M.A.R.T was nice enough to say that my HDD was failing and it needed to be replaced.. It sucks but its whatever.

The problem is I have a ton of games etc on that hard drive (its my secondary master drive, with 2TB of space) so I have to do a back-up all of that on to a external drive and keep it there until I get a new HDD.

But I wonder can I do so I can run the games from my back-up on the external drive until I get a new internal HDD? Or must I wait and play until I can move everything back?

C-Man2011-11-06T08:09:57Z

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To run those games from your external drive you'd need to reinstall them, specifying the external drive as your destination drive. After that's done, you could copy your old game folders over to the external drive, overwriting the new install.

During installation, games and applications update your system registry with information about where their data and support files are located. You could try manually editing the registry but it's not recommended. Re-installing is the most reliable way (that usually means uninstalling them first).

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