New hard drive. Is this going to work?
Leticron:
Quote from: Sivany on 2008 July 05, 12:43:52
..Finally (and I know this is a long shot, which may make my previous to questions irrelevant) is there anyway if I stick the two hard drives in together to just copy the entire lot over to the new hard drive without having to install again? Normally I wouldn't even bother trying that but I've lost my BV CD and the idea of downloading a torrent fills me with dread simply because my internet connection is ridiculously slow. I'm assuming it wouldn't work because the registary keys would still be on the old hard drive and it would mash up all the links which point to the internal files. Just thought I'd ask though because I'm clutching at straws here. It's going to take long enough to install all the expansion packs I have the CDs for without waiting hours days to download something I technically already own.
In a "normal case" it should be possible, to attach the new HDD to the computer, without removing the old drive and make a 1:1 copy, so you wouldn't have to install anything. How to go about that, depends on several things... IDE or SATA-Drives, what copy-software is available etc. Drag and drop in Explorer does not work (at least not for anything that matters, like OS, Registry etc.), that's for sure. You'll need so called "drive Cloning" soft like Norton Ghost, Acronis True Image etc.
-le
witch:
You could just ghost the image of your drive with Norton's ghost image software. Makes an exact copy.
Whoops, Leticron beat me to it, teach me not to read the post when the little red message pops up.
Sivany:
Thanks for the advice. I think I'll make one last attempt to find my BV CD and if that fails I'll go with the ghost imaging thing.
Assuming I do find my CD (unlikely at this point, but still) and end up reinstalling does anyone have any knowledge/experience with how the EA store reacts in these circumstances. Is it going to let me redownload or is it going to throw a fit and refuse?
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