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Hardrive Help - Adding a Second Drive and Moving Files




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Old 26th Apr 2009, 09:22
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Default Hardrive Help - Adding a Second Drive and Moving Files

Hi

Ive got 2 hard disk drives on my laptop, but one only has about 4 GB of memory left, ive got another one which can hold 111 GB of memory, I moved a game over the the empty hardrive, but it wont play anymore.

IS their anyway you can make both hardrives work as one?
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Old 26th Apr 2009, 09:40
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Default Hardrive Help - Adding a Second Drive and Moving Files

Ok, two entirely different issues here.

But one can be answered quite simply:

No, they can't act as one. That would need a partition accross two drives, which cannot be done. Not at the moment anyway.


As for the game you moved over, this will be most likely *EDIT - It will be* because you didn't move all of the files.

It would be best for you to reinstall it on the other hard drive.
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Old 26th Apr 2009, 09:45
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Default Hardrive Help - Adding a Second Drive and Moving Files

You cannot just move the game over, it needs to be uninstalled via add/remove programs then when installing again select the other drive.
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Old 26th Apr 2009, 11:01
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Default Hardrive Help - Adding a Second Drive and Moving Files

Are you certain you have 2 x drives on your Laptop and not 2 x partitions on a single drive ?

If the latter, you could incorpotate (merge) the 2 partitions.
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Old 26th Apr 2009, 13:40
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Default Hardrive Help - Adding a Second Drive and Moving Files

Yeah with most laptop HDD's its just one split into two
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