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DrBejar

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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?
 

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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.
 

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it's a USB2.5
 

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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
 

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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.
 

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

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

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I got it down now, thanks!
 

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Thats good news.

How did you go about it?
 

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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.
 

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Windows 7 Professional x64
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AMD Athlon 64x2 Dual core Processor 5400+
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ATi Radeon Hd 4650
Sound Card
Realtek High Definition Audio
Screen Resolution
1680x1024 AOC
Hard Drives
250GB
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