How to External Drive?

DrBejar · 11 Jan 2011

Hey everyone.
My question is how do I put my games I have on my hard drive onto my new external hard drive?
And once there on my external hard drive, how do I play them from there?

whs · 11 Jan 2011

I don't think you want to do that. You would pay a BIG performance penalty - of course depending on the game. I am not even sure whether that would work at all.

If your external drive is a SSD on a USB3 or eSata port, it would be worth investigating.

DrBejar · 11 Jan 2011

it's a USB2.5

DrBejar · 11 Jan 2011

whs said:

I don't think you want to do that. You would pay a BIG performance penalty - of course depending on the game. I am not even sure whether that would work at all.

If your external drive is a SSD on a USB3 or eSata port, it would be worth investigating.

Games I want to do that for is:
GTA 4
Fall out 3
BF Bad Company 2
World Of Warcraft
Burnout Paradise

yousaf465 · 11 Jan 2011

I don't think this will work out. I Ext Hd gives at best 30Mbps which is not enough for the games I think. Although the procedure is same for installing on a Ext or Int Hd. You just have to change the path while installing the game.

DrBejar · 11 Jan 2011

I'll try to see how it goes when it comes.
I just bought one online.

xarden · 11 Jan 2011

And no, it wont work if you take that external drive to a friends computer and try play it there

DrBejar · 29 Jan 2011

I got it down now, thanks!

xarden · 30 Jan 2011

Thats good news.

How did you go about it?

DrBejar · 30 Jan 2011

Well since my games are not the ones you have to put the cd in and play, mine are different.
I won't say what it is, don't want to get in band or something.
however, i did manage to do a back up what i wanted and wasent over 50G.
I made files for everthing i need to it looks nice and neat.