AgentChieftain Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Skyrim, along with all the mods I have for it, is taking up a lot of space on Disk C: (only has 111 gigabytes), so I want to transfer it all over to D: since it has 1.8 terabytes to work with. But Ive never done a transfer this large before and I assume it's a little more complicated than dragging and dropping Skyrim into D: when factoring in NMM, mods, Steam, ect. So how should I go about it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firearm2112 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Well first off, do you have steam installed on that other drive? Is this other drive connected internally or is it external? Because if its external, skyrim will be much slower Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentChieftain Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Well first off, do you have steam installed on that other drive? Is this other drive connected internally or is it external? Because if its external, skyrim will be much slower The drive is connected internally. I don't have steam on the other drive though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bben46 Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 Steam is easy to move from one drive to another - and they even have the instructions on how to do it on steam. How to Move your Steam to another location Without having to reinstall anything.https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=231 And - moving a single game to another drivehttp://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=664376 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GITech Posted February 12, 2014 Share Posted February 12, 2014 (edited) If you were to use Mod Organizer for Bethesda games you could move you "mod organizer" folder any time to anywhere! To save space, you can also move all your DL at anytime and just tell MO where to send/look for them from now on. During updating/cleanup/adding new mods recently...I moved my "mod organizer" folder with just copy/past to the root of my C:SSD and the "downloads" folder to another old drive I have. To make it all function again, all I had to do is tell MO where to look for the "downloads" file. That's it! With Mod Organizer:Never put a mod file in your skyrim/data folder again.Never uninstall a mod again (unless you really don't want it anymore of coarse).Never overwrite a file again.Never screw-up your skyrim installation again!You can also change your mod install order, AKA "Priority" in MO at any time.You can even look at all the files of each mod directly compared to each other, AKA "Conflicts" in MO.This can help you make decisions or try out combinations of "priority" yourself, and then be a **helper** to the next guy who has a similar issue.Note: extract all BSA's during install so priority and conflict view works for all your mods. [ [ :wink:] ] Also: Always use "manual" install, so you can see the file tree and files, and re-arrange them right there if you need to (ie; don't need to do it out on "explorer/windows") to make sure you've got a correct file tree...and with whatever options you choose of the mod...if for say the mod is for manual install with choices in it's file tree.Oh, and unlimited saves/mods/ini/priority/load order "profiles". (That's unlimited virtual modded skyrim installations, all using the same shared "mods" folder.... Really!!!)Oh, and real time texture viewing when looking at mod file conflicts if you use the new beta. That is very useful.Oh, and this new version also integrates BOSS and replaces BOSS GUI. You can simply right click on an esp and click "lock load order", and BOSS GUI type rules are automatically applied to your load order.But, wait.. there's more........ [:smile:]Later,GITech Edited February 12, 2014 by GITech Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgentChieftain Posted February 12, 2014 Author Share Posted February 12, 2014 Steam is easy to move from one drive to another - and they even have the instructions on how to do it on steam. How to Move your Steam to another location Without having to reinstall anything.https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?p_faqid=231 And - moving a single game to another drivehttp://forums.steampowered.com/forums/showthread.php?t=664376 Will NMM automatically track the move to the D: Drive, or will I have to change some settings? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GITech Posted February 23, 2014 Share Posted February 23, 2014 Silence?... How's it going? Using MO? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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