New Drives means new installs

[Daimy0shi]

So I bought a m2 solid state drive and as a result I have new installs of the games I had modded and a new install of vortex. I trying to figure out the best way to at least find what I had installed so I can install it again. It also occurs to be that do to space reason it might be an idea to remove and reinstall on the large Data drive I have. I kept my old C: Drive in the machine so I can access it. I am not sure where to begin. If I understand other posts Vortex keeps the mod data in it own folder not in the the game directory correct?

[HadToRegister]

Yes, it keeps the extracted and linked mods in the Mod Staging Folder.

What you should've done from the start was to PURGE your mods, BEFORE you put in the new drive, then you're free to swap drives, and copy things over to the new drive WITH THE SAME PATHS AS BEFORE.

Copying your mod staging folder WITHOUT purging, will cause windows to sever the hardlinks, and instead copy a physical copy of the mods instead, meaning that you will end up with a Mod Staging Folder Hard Copy, AND a Game Folder Hard Copy of your mods.