Help with moving games to new hdd

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piggyplayz

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Hi,

I recently got a new hdd (D) and I would like to keep all my games on there, while having all my programs on my C: hdd. I moved most my games through the steam library and it says they are on drive D but i noticed that there are many folders still on my drive C: related to games such as in Appdata and my documents. Are these nescessary for my games to run and if yes how can I also move them to drive D along with my other games without losing my progress in my games or breaking them (because I know u cant copy and paste games). So what i want to achive is that lets say my C: drive failes, and pretend windows still works, then i can still run all my games just from my D drive without having to restart. Is this possible and if yes how? Another question is how do i move non steam games and game launchers. The games and launchers i want to move are: Games: LoL, Paragon, Hearthstone, Minecraft. Launchers: Steam, Origin, Uplay, Epic games launcher and battle.net. Thanks for your time.
 
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If the config & save data files are within the game's directory, then that's fine. Although if they are in "Documents", they have to stay there unless you want to start the game all over again like it's the first time you're playing it.
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The stuff in AppData is just configuration data for the games. So even if you move the game to another folder/drive, it will still maintain a folder(s) for them in AppData(usually Local and Roaming). Steam is something in which you can move the entire folder, although those other games you mentioned... you are most likely going to have to re-install them on the new drive(thus uninstalling them from their current location). If you are concerned about local save data files, those are usually stored in "My Documents/Documents".... in case not, I would probably check each game's DIR to see if there's any sort of save file/folder and back that up.
The .minecraft folder in appdata/roaming will be safe to copy over to a new location just fine... although once you start playing again, it may re-create the .minecraft folder in appdata/roaming again. I doubt Minecraft is taking up a ton of room, I'd say just leave it where it is.
 
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First of all thanks for helping. I’m not really trying to move it for storage but just because I’m organised. So is there a way of moving the config files and or the save data files?

 
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If the config & save data files are within the game's directory, then that's fine. Although if they are in "Documents", they have to stay there unless you want to start the game all over again like it's the first time you're playing it.
 
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