Are there hidden files, or will it work?

Pierre3400 · Apr 2, 2014

Hey guys.

Today i ordered a Samsung 120gb Evo SSD, main reason is because my laptop SSD has died.

But, i thought, well, im not happy with the speed of my Kingston SSD, that i use for games, so what i want to do, is swap those 2 SSD's.

The kingston for the Samsung, i have Origin and steam installed on the Kingston, aswell as a few games.

What I want to do is, install and format the Samsung, then directly move all the files (copy/paste) from the kingston to the Samsung, and then remove the Kingston, set the Samsung to the same drive letter as the kingston was.

Will this work?

EarthDog · Apr 2, 2014

You can try...I think it will work. Your worst case is to restore from a backup of Steam and Origin (take the backups first).

wagex · Apr 2, 2014

yea mine worked, it will have to "update" some of the files on first run but it will be fine

RGone · Apr 2, 2014

I did not see where he was going to image the current SSD and then put the image on the new SSD. Copying the operating system seems headed for failure but an image will do fine. I could be missing something.
RGone...

EarthDog · Apr 2, 2014

He doesn't appear to have an OS on that drive...I think his OS is on the Samsung also listed in his sig.

Kingston SSD, that i use for games, so what i want to do, is swap those 2 SSD's.

The kingston for the Samsung, i have Origin and steam installed on the Kingston, aswell as a few games.

That said, if there is an OS, that advice is, as per usual, spot onster!

Automata · Apr 2, 2014

As long as there is no operating system on the drive, the files get placed in the same spot, and the drive letter stays the same, nothing should be able to tell the difference.

wagex · Apr 2, 2014

im so confused :'(

Automata · Apr 2, 2014

About what?

ATMINSIDE · Apr 2, 2014

thideras said:
As long as there is no operating system on the drive, the files get placed in the same spot, and the drive letter stays the same, nothing should be able to tell the difference.

This.

Do the copy, remove the Kingston drive, then assign the Samsung the old letter.

cullam3n · Apr 2, 2014

Yup. Or you can use something like gparted to turn the drive into an image and then use clonezilla to load the image on the new drive.

ATMINSIDE · Apr 2, 2014

cullam3n said:
Yup. Or you can use something like gparted to turn the drive into an image and then use clonezilla to load the image on the new drive.

Or just skip GParted and use Clonezilla to go drive to drive...

Automata · Apr 2, 2014

Or skip GParted completely. Clonezilla makes images too...

Pierre3400 · Apr 2, 2014

Just to be clear, there is NO os on the SSD, its pure and simply ONLY for my games, as i hate loading time in BF4.

cullam3n · Apr 2, 2014

lol I got that backwards, I meant to say use gparted to format it and then use clonezilla to backup/restore the image (or do disc-to-disc)

DanFraser · Apr 3, 2014

Put the new drive in, format it. Then use robocopy in a command line.

GTXJackBauer · Apr 6, 2014

I believe the Samsung EVO comes with cloning software that is done for this exactly.

Luke1978 · Apr 6, 2014

I just copied steam to a different drive today as a matter of fact. First time you run the games you will have to do it from WITHIN steam, at least I did, (I.E. open steam, select game from library, click play), not the game.exe shortcut thingy that steam makes in the app folder. Also moved NMM over along with steam, which didnt work quite right, but the drive I moved it to didn't have the same drive letter. In order to keep my NMM mods intact I installed NMM on the new drive where steam is, then merged the old NMM from C:/ to the new drive. Worked like a charm.

Pierre3400 · Apr 7, 2014

I can say that I just copied the folders from my Kingston, to my SSHD, then replaced the kingston with the Samsung, copied them back, and everything worked perfect.

GTXJackBauer · Apr 7, 2014

Glad it all worked out Pierre.

Pierre3400 · Apr 8, 2014

GTXJackBauer said:
Glad it all worked out Pierre.

Indeed, now BF4 loads a tiny bit faster! :thup:

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