Thank you so much for this! I wanted to uninstall my game that was 150 gb for a long time but I didn't want to ruin the save file I had on it, and I found this video which saved my storage problem as well as my safe file. :)
Such an underrated vid if compared to the other ones out there for the same query.. Your content is awesome, well detailed while being at the point.. Subscribed!! :))
My laptop screen broke so I could not move my game which (I'm ashamed to say) had over a 1000 hours logged into it. Thank you so much, it was straight to the point and easy to understand. You didn't assume we knew anything such as changing the letter of the hard drive and it was very much appreciated.
Thanks for the video, very easy to follow for simple minds like me! Was able to make the updates on almost all of the platforms as you were going through them! Cheers
big help. thank you. i wasnt able to figure out epic. i didnt have the same install option as you. i will just redownload it onto my new drive manually.
your info videos are always understandable and on point! thanks as always Sir! I just got my half life Alyx working with the uses of VR Desktop apps, Awesome! Stay amazing! 🔥🔥👍
your the best I had to delete gtav on my SSD cause I had low space, and I thought I would have to install it again on my hard drive which would take forever
Is progress on steam video games and progress on blizzard games transferred over to the new folder locations? I beat the first witcher and want to keep my saved game progress.
the video is so helpful, but there's one thing that you're missing for the xbox and that is you need to format the external hard drive to ntfs in order for your pc to recognize it a hard drive for your xbox games on pc
NTFS is the recommended format for windows hard drives so I took it as a given, but far point, always better to be explicit! 😊 Thanks for helping out others on this channel Christian. 👍
Am I limited to 26 external storage drives per pc if I use USB flash drives? Last time I checked usb allows external storage to daisy chain up to 128 devices connected at once.
I’m trying to move my sims to my hard drive I thought I could just copy the steps for Origin but recently they changed it all to EA games so I can’t right click and move the game is there another way pleaseee
For the Xbox game pass I don’t see a option to change where my games will be downloaded, is it because my external hard drive is using a password? Also I’m using an sandisk
If the drive letter was the same on both then it might work. Haven't tried myself. You would need to be logged into a game pass account on each PC to be able to play the games. Give it a go and let everyone know how you go. 🙂
I’m having an issue transferring my SIMS game to my EHD. I have the seagate HD. When I copy and move it to the hd, it shows up but when I go to play…my cc isn’t showing.
Great content, thank you..... what about settings like key bindings... for example battlefield 2042, ive messed with almost all setting like hud elements, key bindings etc.... thanks
Key bindings are a very individual thing. I’d always recommend starting with the defaults first and then tweaking if you need to. You can also search online for key bindings that famous players use in case that gives you some ideas to try.
@@MyTechGearGaming hey thanks, I've got my settings perfect that's why I was asking to see if appdata folder or documents folder where some of the config files are for game... wondering if those can be moved over to new pc
Ah. That makes more sense! 😊 it will depend on the game but they should get copied over. I’d always recommend testing once the game is moved over to make sure.
Does it work with game pass games? For example i have Battlefront 2 with Xbox Game Pass/EA Play with EA Desktop App. How can I transfer this game to a external SSD?
Hi man, thanks a lot for the video I’ve been trying to figure out how to transfer games between pc’s as I build a lot of pcs for fun and sell them and I hate having to redoenload games every time I make a new pc. It makes it a streamlined process of benchmarking my pc. One question, is the speed of an Sata SSD the same as the speed of an external SSD? In terms of loading games and such? Thanks!
Also, can I have all of the launchers on an external SSD as well not just the games? That way when I switch to a new pc I can just plug in the external SSD and I won’t even have to download all the launchers either?
@Nate, I did some speed tests covering SSDs, NVMe's and HDD's which should help you here. You can check it out here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-3Nq3czYL-aQ.html
@Nate, I've had trouble with installing launchers on non-main drives. Even when you select an external drive some still install some files in your Program Files directory on your C drive so they're never truly on your external drive. So, I tend to play it safe and just stick the launchers on the main drive.
hey ive got a question, im trying to transfer the sims4 including all its mod packs into a usb hard drive with the format exfat, they said i shouldnt transfer more than 4gb to avoid issues but like is the only option to manually copy paste the files so it doesnt exceed 4gb every single time? hope to get some insight on this thanks man
Haven’t done it myself so can’t talk from experience. Exfat has a 4gb single file size limit, not total transfer limit so don’t know why you were told to move it over a few files at a time. Why are you using exfat anyway? Windows recommends NTFS for external drives.
Is it compulsory to format the external hard drive? I don't really understand the entire format situation, and I can't get a clear answer whether it is necessary or not to format a drive for gaming
Hey, I am trying to move Apex Legends to my D drive because it needed an update that couldn't fit in the drive, but the game needs to be updated to move any tips on how to do that?
depends on the size of the update. If the update is as big as the game then you might as well redownload it. If it's not that big an update though then you could look at clearing your cache in your browser and also the temp folder on your PC to help free up some space on your PC.
Is it possible to place games from different launchers into one single game folder? Steam auto creates subfolders (steamapp) and a few loose files under the destination folder which prevents what I wanted to achieve.
I have a single 'games' folder and then each launcher has its own sub folder under that. E.g. a sub folder for steam, ea, origin etc, and that works fine. Is that what you were after?
@@MyTechGearGamingSorry what I meant is each game has its own folder under the folder of ‘games’, without categorising under launcher subfolders. Apparently Steam isn’t allowing individual folder for a single game without a subfolder called steamapp.
I went out of settings when i was moving my xbox game and when i went back it wasn't doing anything and when i try to move it again it wont let me is there a way i can move?
If you quit out if it whilst it was moving your data then it could be in a weird half say state. Your only option might be to install it from scratch. Before doing that though, restart your PC and try again and see if that fixes it for you.
so if i copy the entire program files folder to my new ssd and change the name to that of the old one i can just continue playing my games without losing progress?
Not that I've been able to get working. As of 2 days ago, Microsoft are testing an open way of installing games on PC as part of their insider program. This would allow you to manage games far more easily, similar to how Steam and other game platforms do it. No ETA on when that will be made available as a general release though.
As you’re moving the whole directory over then it should move everything with it. I’m sure they’ll be some exceptions here though as it depends on where the game is storing your progress.
I have no option to move install folder. It just says backup games files and verify integrity of files. I'm trying verify integrity of files right now and if that doesn't work I'm going to do backup game files
5:50 I didnt understand how you copied it, i dont know if i rename it in the C drive and drag it over to the D drive or if i did control C on the file and renamed it when it was finished moving, could someone help?
it wont work for some reason, when i copied the fortnite folder into my D drive and renamed it and tried to start installing it still said that i didnt have enough space in C drive but i prob did something wrong, though idk what i would have done wrong@@MyTechGearGaming
@emiliesandenejordanengen6642 you want to be installing to your new drive, not the c drive. I have done an updated guide to this so it might be worth checking those out to see if it helps you better.
@@MyTechGearGaming do these methods still work for you? I can't get the new EA app beta (origin doesn't work with EA play the website says) and Xbox game pass to work. I can get Xbox game pass to work after a lot of searching, but as soon as I reboot or maybe disconnect my external ssd, I get an error that says "parameter incorrect" or some bull****. EA app beta just doesn't show any way to move games and I don't feel like re-downloading a game to the external drive to test right now and moving it manually, doesn't work easily if at all. Nightmare that these tiny small time companies with billions of euro's can't even make something, that steam just does brilliantly, work.
Please help me here ...... I have GTA5 installed in my external har drive , now every time I reboot the system epic games fail to recognize it . It has to be verified every time I reboot
Does it do that with every game in the Epic store for you or just GTA5? Is it just verifying the install, or re-downloading it and installing it again?
with Epic Games if the game has yet to be installed can I just install in on the hard drive or do I still have to go through and do all the copy and pasting?
When you install a new game you can choose the directory that you want to install to at the time of installation, so just install it direct onto your new drive.
It will depend on the game. Some might just work by cut and pasting to a new drive, but some games include drive paths in registry keys when they install so depend on them being on the original location try it, and if it doesn't work you'll have to Uninstall and then reinstall to the new drive.
EA Desktop is essentially the successor/next version of Origins. It's still in Beta version at the moment though and doesn't have a move folder option. I tried moving the drive manually, and setting the default folder to the new drive, but EA Desktop kept trying to re-install it to the old location. Looks like for now the only option is to re-install to the new drive location at the moment. Hopefully they add the 'move folder' option too it before it comes out of Beta. In the meantime, the Origins app still works. I'd suggest using that to move your games, and then switching over to the EA Desktop app afterwards.
@@MyTechGearGaming thank you bro...appreciate the effort...I have ea desktop basically due to game pass...which gives free ea desktop access...for ea play games....beta apps sucks in general...have a nice day And do games run slower in external hard disk?
Everything worked except for xbox gamepass for pc games. I connected my usb 3 external drive on PC 1, moved all games to that external drive. I hooked it up on PC2, launched xbox app but it didn't detect the games. I had set it up as Z letter drive on both PCs. I took ownership of folders where xbox usually saves the downloaded game, there are no game files there at all, it shows just remnants of some files for the game in kilobytes. I went back to PC 1, games are not there either. Looks like xbox app deleted my games god knows for what reason. It was over 400 GBs of games ughhhh. This may work for the same PC where you are just moving files around, absolutely will not work if you are trying to move across different PCs. Be warned. It sucks having to redownload them all.. ughhg ughh
I tested this with game pass on 2 different PCs and could load a game onto an external drive and share between the two PCs. You do need to give it the same drive letter on each machine, and ensure that you are logged into the same game pass account on each PC for it to work though.
Did you add the new folder destination to the 'Steam Library Folders' in the Steam App's Settings? If you didn't, then Steam only has one destination folder by default, so there's nowhere to move a game to, so the move option is not available. It was the 1st step you needed to do. Let me know if doing that fixed it for you.
@@MyTechGearGaming it was in a group, in steam you can organize games into different groups, if you want to do it by series or genre, if you categorize these games then you can't move them from the sidebar. you have to do it from the right side when all your games appear.
I hate when ppl skip steps. Im in epic games and definitely by no means computer savey. Thats y im watching this yet you skip steps…i copied the “fortnite” file (not really fortnite) and changed the name to “_fortnite” you said i just needed to go back to epic games and click install… well it wouldnt let me install it cause it was already installed. You skipped the part where i had uninstall it first then reinstall it
Ii sound like you missed a few steps in the video as it shouldn’t have to uninstall it. I did do a dedicated video that just took you through the steps for epic that you might find easier to follow as it’s more up to date.
