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TrueFin
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Posted: 29th Mar 2017 12:36
Hello

Im changing my old HDD to new SSD. Do I just backup copy my GG-games from the folder and then add em back to new ssd-drive, or is it so simple?
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GraPhiX
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Posted: 29th Mar 2017 13:01
Hi TrueFin
yep that's basically what I have done about 4 times now lol, I actually use Microsoft Richcopy now, its works a treat https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/windows/en-US/33971726-eeb7-4452-bebf-02ed6518743e/microsoft-richcopy?forum=w7itproperf
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Posted: 29th Mar 2017 13:05
Backup the files directory from GameGuru itself in the Steam directory. That should back up your Game Guru stuff and make sure you get everything. Don't forget any other items, 3d models made in Blender or such etc that you may have somewhere else. You could ghost/clone your existing drive across to your new drive if it has the capacity, that way you lose nothing. You would of course be losing some of the advantages of starting with a fresh system though.


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Posted: 29th Mar 2017 13:13
I just moved to an SSD and just copied my whole Disc to the SSD using 'AOMEI Backupper Standard' it is free to use and is quite quick. Once done I replace the old HDD with the new SSD and the only difference you see is the speed of your machine. I have done this on two machines now with no problems.
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TrueFin
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Posted: 29th Mar 2017 19:58
Yeah, well there is some kind of error on my Windows 10, thats why I want to do a clean install. Game-Guru is running on my computer, but I cant run 64-bit programs and Microsoft support said that easiest way to fix this is to do a clean install.
Im afraid to lose 3.rd objects when I do this..
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Posted: 29th Mar 2017 20:07 Edited at: 29th Mar 2017 20:28
If you are doing a clean install, take your current hard disc out of the system, put your new SSD drive in, install windows 10 do all necessary updates, ensure win 10 is running correctly install all your apps, check for win 10 updates again you are good to go.

Get yourself an external hard disc caddy put you old drive in it copy all your data (not apps) across when you are sure everything is ok format the external drive you will now have a backup drive you can use for your data.

external caddies are very cheap https://www.amazon.co.uk/CiT-3-5-inch-SATA-Enclosure/dp/B00647A4KY/ref=sr_1_6?ie=UTF8&qid=1490814370&sr=8-6&keywords=hard+disk+caddy

Do you have the Windows 10 Media?
if not go here https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10 and download the windows media creation tool follow the instructions https://www.microsoft.com/en-gb/software-download/windows10?d2784474-fdb0-4e9d-9e47-5e88c0e053ec=True to create the media, obviously do this before you take your hard disc out.

If you do not have a windows 10 product key when the install asks for one choose 'I do not have a product key' windows will install without a product key and will reactivate automatically with a DE as long as you have already run windows 10 previously and successfully activated.
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Posted: 30th Mar 2017 12:50
Quote: "Im afraid to lose 3.rd objects when I do this.."


As long as you back everything up you should be fine. I added the warning because I have often lost things when wiping a drive. It's easy to do and unless you keep your system really organised you normally lose something you forgot about. Normally this isn't an issue, you just re-download the program again. The issue with your own stuff is you can't I've lost loads of old programs and such I made that way.

@ Graphix. I normally use a new drive when I can just in case. The only trouble here is I end up having several old system hdd's as I keep them just in case I forgot to grab something off it ;p I think I have one from last time still in my machine, just not connected up. Really should organise better, but it never happens.


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TrueFin
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Posted: 31st Mar 2017 04:03
Done. Computer problem has been fixed by installing Win 10 again. Many thanks!

Cloning HDD might would be the easiest way, but according to Microsoft Support there was some kind of error on my Win 10 installation (appeard only couple of 64-bit softwares), so I didn't take a risk to "clone" that error too Well this was quite fast way to fix this.
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Posted: 31st Mar 2017 09:15
glad you're sorted
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