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Mark Majoris

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My son has got his computer so messed up. He has a 250GB SATA C Drive and a 1TB D Drive.
I told him to install his games to the 1TB D drive but yet I see parts of the same game on both drives. He installed Watch Dogs 2 and yet I see files from that game on both drives.

What I'm trying to say is when you install a game do some files go to where the operating system is? I read somewhere that happens. Does anyone know because I was thinking of moving all the files to the biggest drive and I'm not sure if that would mess it up.
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Mark Majoris

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I just watched a interesting video where one man said just cut your games from your C drive and paste them in your D drive and your good to go. But I still had a bad feeling about doing this. Here is the link, .https://youtu.be/okkQRr5-0sY
A lot of people said that was dangerous because there are still parts of your game in the registry and other places.
What do you guys think?
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DEEPESH MANI

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yes thats all its right.

dont worry ur game saving file will not change
if u change like that all the games will be working well
no need to play from the 1st, it will continue

it is easy processes bro

 
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I feel your pain Mark.. I am the father of 3 kids ;)
I run a similar setup as you in that my C: drive is for Windows and System programs, and my D: is for games, etc.
Sometimes when you install on D: , a game may still put some stuff on C: but it is usually a folder that is just used for the game's Saves or Settings. It should not look almost identical at all to the actual game installation folder.
Your best bet is to find the shortcut he uses to start the game(s), right click on it, and look at the properties.. it will point to the folder (and drive) it is using for that game. If it's pointing to D: and he has the full installation also on C: , you could delete the game folder on C:
If the game was accidentally installed on C: , moving it in its entirety to D: often doesn't work because of Registry entries regarding it.
 
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Mark Majoris

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Dudio, I do see some of the files like you said on the C Drive but there like 30GB'S.
And Night Owl my son is using Steam and putting them on the 1TB D Drive.
I watched some Youtube videos and they mentioned that Intel has a Data Migration software that's works OK and Amazon has some cloning stations that can clone a SSD to a HDD or vice versa.

https://www.amazon.com/External-Docking-Station-Supported-Offline/dp/B01M7TB25G/ref=sr_1_27?ie=UTF8&qid=1496205900&sr=8-27&keywords=hard+drive+cloning+docking+stations

I purchased this computer from Cyberpower and they installed the M.2 storage which they said is much faster.
I should of listen to my gut and just stayed with the SSD which I always used in the past. Now this M.2 is almost filled and I'm not sure what to do. It wouldn't be so bad if the OS wasn't on it.
Thanks guys.
 
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I don't think you want to get into cloning or data migration.
Be nice to see some of the folder/files you're seeing to be able to say yay or nay.
You could try running Window's "Disk Cleanup" and see what kind of space you free up there.
After that, I'd either uninstall the game(s) that seem to be the worst, and after that delete any remaining files/folders on either drive, and then reinstall.
Or wipe the system and start over ! :)
 
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Yes, that's what usually happens, some files need to be on OS drive to function properly and some entries are also written in registry. That happens during game/program installation and that stuff shouldn't be moved.Bulk of the game/program will be on secondary drive and not too much taken from OS drive.
 
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