Remote Installation
Kala:
I want to reinstall my game on an exturnal harddrive and I would like advice on how to do this right. I want to have both EA folders on the exturnal drive. I also want to avoid the My Documents folders mimicing each other.
B:
Do you actually mean an external hard drive? As in one that will be connected to your computer via a USB cable? I've never tried doing what you are contemplating, but I would be concerned about running the Sims off an external drive. Even with USB 2.0, it's going to be slow.
That being said, if you've made up your mind it is easily doable. The installation of game files will go as it normally would, but you'll change the path to match your external drive. The only tricky part will be getting the user content folder to a different location. As far as I know, the only way to do this is to change the "Documents and Settings" path. Since this is not ideal for many reasons, I suggest you leave the custom content where it is on the C: drive.
Again, I don't really think your performance using this method is going to be very good.
Kala:
The connection to the drive may be a fire wire connect unless my brother puts the drive in my tower. The only reason I'm thinking about this is my brother refuses to reinstall my video card.
Zazazu:
I think the solution is obvious: smack your brother. Alternatively, find someone else who knows what they are doing to do it instead...but still smack your brother.
Rose Outlaw:
Seems to be a popular procedure these days, someone requested help on such issue at InSim as well and left my wondering why one would voluntarily suffer from the extra slow performance.
Anyway, do smack your brother, especially if he agrees to install that drive, but not your video card.
Heck, why don't you insist on both things, new drive and the video card?
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