Swapping Installation Drive

[Sevann]

I currently have DDO installed on an older external usb drive. I want to move it over to a newer SATA internal drive. How do I do this without uninstalling and re-installing DDO?

[Deragoth]

Not to derail your thread, but how did it run on the external USB drive?

To address your question... I'm not familiar with your setup, but if the SATA drive doesn't have any system files on it and/or is blank, you could copy everything from your external drive to the SATA drive, and assign what was the external USB drive letter to the internal drive. Should pick right up after a reboot, and is the only way I know of without messing with registry keys. This only works if it's something other than your C drive, and you can actually reassign the SATA drive letter without breaking other programs.

There are, however, many other solutions. Honestly, I'd probably just bite the bullet and reinstall it.

[Altumus]

Back up the .dat files, install the game, then copy the dat files into the ddo directory, then launch the updater - it will be a minimal patch if you are up to date before backing up.

[Sevann]

Thanks Altumus, Deragoth.

Not to derail your thread, but how did it run on the external USB drive?

UMMMM, ok I guess. I was having hard drive issues at the time and still wanted to play ddo. The load times were longer but still faster than some. Other than that I was runnin around 40-60 fps on high setting. Didn't notice any change there from when it was on my c drive.