Werner345 Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 Hellooo,i bought a new HDD because my old one was getting pretty loud, will probaply break soon and was to little sometimes. I use my HDD for some Steam Games and other Programms. Windows is installed on a SDD. So my modded Skyrim is installed on my old HDD. How do i transfer my modded game on the new one, without messing anything up? Thank you :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UchihaLucci Posted February 5, 2022 Share Posted February 5, 2022 What mod manager you are using? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted137969948User Posted February 6, 2022 Share Posted February 6, 2022 Thats the thing. Your Mod Manager propably has all the mods already as files stored somewhere.Its perfectly safe to re-install Skyrim since you changed the drive and re-activate the mods via mod manager provided they are stored somewhere.If using NMM Community Edition instead of MO2 or Vortex its the same.You can just grab the Mod files you installed and move them somewhere and reinstall again and they will work as before.Only thing that will need reinstallation are files stored in the Data folder or main Directory such as SKSE. Before you do that make sure to install in the files in the same order. Just open the mod manager before doing anything and write the order of installation somewhere such as a .txt file. Re-Installing the Game will be necessary. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 (edited) Steam allows you to change the install folder for a game, so I assume you can switch drives like you can with WindowsApps games from the Windows store. It won't know about your mods, but your mod manager will. I haven't tried any of this, but there is probably some way to reactivate the mod profile at the new location (using Vortex terminology). It may depend on which mod manager you are using. You shouldn't have to reinstall Skyrim though, just move it. The other option is to copy the old drive to the new one using software created to do that. Then you just pull out the old one and put the new one in, making sure the drive letter hasn't changed (you can reassign the letter back again if necessary). This isn't the same as copying files over. It's an exact image of the drive. That would "move" all of your games to the new one. Much more efficient than reinstalling everything. Edited February 7, 2022 by blitzen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deleted137969948User Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 Just checked. Nice feature. How safe is it? I never tried that with any game and since its an HDD i don't fully trust it. This is something entirely new for me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 I'm not sure which of the things I mentioned you are asking about being safe. I would recommend trying to image the full disk onto the new one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gorsha Posted February 7, 2022 Share Posted February 7, 2022 What if you copy your whole steam drive, (assume it could be "D:\steam\etc...."), to your new drive and after that rename the new drive to "D:\steam\etc..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blitzen Posted February 8, 2022 Share Posted February 8, 2022 You mean using windows explorer copy/paste on the entire file system? It might work. I'm not sure. You can't do that with Wndows Apps because of permission problems. It should work as long as you don't run into permission failures. I don't know if Steam does anything with permissions or ownership. I've only copied system drives, so I had to use disk imaging software for that. You can't just copy over a system drive. You may be able to do it with a pure data drive without system files. There may be something I'm not thinking of. I have to do something similar. I just got a second SSD drive for data and will move some Steam games (that aren't modded) to it after I install it. You could try the copy. There may be some way to tell it to log any errors to a file in case there is a problem. You can also check the entire file system size when it's done and compare it to the original. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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