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[Solved] What do I do with game installs on second HD when main HD fails?

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notapcguru   02-04-2012 at 03:31:23 PM

Hopefully this will be an easy answer. The system I am building has 1 SSD and 2 1TB HDs. If I install games to the 1 TB drives and the SSD crashes and I have to install windows again, what do I do with all of the game files?

I assume I can manually dig around and pull out my save games, but do I just delete the folder since it won't be able to be properly uninstalled? Then I just re-install once the OS is running on the SSD again?

Thanks!

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rolli59   02-04-2012 at 03:37:11 PM
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If you re install after the crash to the same location without removing the files then the game only has to update the registry and not actually install the game files!

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malmental   02-04-2012 at 04:10:48 PM

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can be tricky for some but yes, that's the way.

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