HDD transferring..

[Pastore]

ok, heres my problem. a while back my house was robbed, and they nabbed most of my pcs components, but left the hdd. i bought a new machine and my hdd has been laying around ever since. i would like to get some games off that hdd the were stolen in the robbery, such as quake 3 and soldier of fortune. i cant just throw the hd in my machine because i am using it to build another machine for someone. if i can do this, how would i go about it??? thank you for your help

 

[Pastore]

help

 

[Wizkid]

Just put the HD in your machine and copy the files over to the new drive.

 

[Pastore]

ok, i guess i wasnt very clear. my question is that dont games that are installed to a hard drive keeps files in other places than the game directory? therefore you would have to copy all the right files over... or am i just being completely dense...

 

[LevcoS]

*most* games don't mess with the registry or add windows system files... so you're probably OK just copying over.

LevcoS

 

[Pastore]

thanx guys, i guess it cant hurt to try

 

[JayPatel]

well alot of the microsoft and ea games make extensive use of the registry. also expect big ticket games to have some kind of reg entry.

 

[HaVoC]

Wow...these thieves had the knowledge to take apart a computer and leave the harddrive? Or were the components already separate when they were jacked?

 

[Budman]

Wouldnt just grabing the whole case & run be faster than taking a screwdriver & removing components ?


Just copy the games on the new HD and Reinstall on top of the game if you need to have reg settings,this way you'll keep all your saved games intact.

 

[Syborg1211]

It would be hilarious if you were a theif and you stole all the components out of a computer and left the case closed with no sign of breaking in. The owner would go to try and turn his comp on and nothing!