So if you want to move all your PC
games to a brand new hard drive, but you are dreading having to spend hours
downloading your games all over again, well I'm here to tell you that you don't have to! Because in this series of videos I'm
going to go through the step-by-step guide that you need to follow so
that you can get all your games onto your new hard drive without
having to download them all again! So a few minutes of your time spent here
is going to save you hours afterwards. Now each video in this series is going
to be focusing on a different game store, and this week it's the turn of Epic Games.
Plus I'm going to show you how to set up a new hard drive so that it's ready
for you to install those games too. Welcome to My Tech Gear, let's get into it! So before you can start downloading and
saving anything to a new hard drive, the first thing that you need to do is set it up. Now for ease of use I would recommend an
external hard drive for this as you only need to plug it into a USB port instead of
opening up your PC case. However, whether you use an external or an internal drive, the steps
for formatting and setting it up are the same. First things first. Let's open
up the Disk Management tool. Now in order to do that… Press the Windows key to bring
up the windows home menu. Type in ‘disk’ and then there is a ‘create
and format hard disk partition’ option. Click on that. When you open up that Disk Management
tool you are going to see your default drive in this list. Now for most people
it's going to be ‘D’ or an ‘E’. For me it's the one touch drive that I've just
attached to my PC. So it's ‘E’ for me. Now you just need to format your hard
drive. So in the Disk Management tool, click on your hard drive. Right click and then
select ‘format’. By default you're pretty much going to leave it as ‘NTFS’. You can change
if you want to but for most people, ‘NTFS’. Then just click on ‘OK‘ and it will do
a quick format of that drive. I'm not going to do that because I've already done
it, but that's how you set up a new drive. It's now all ready once that format's
finished for you to install new games too! So moving games in the Epic Games launcher, whilst not straightforward, is
possible with a few simple steps. Basically you need to locate your game folder. You need to copy it to the new drive. And then you need to “trick” the Epic Games
launcher into finding that new location. So first up we're going to
open up the Epic Games app. First we need to locate the folder where the
games are currently installed on your PC. It is whatever it was when you installed the launcher.
Typically it's ‘C:\program files\Epic Games’. So I'm just going to open up Windows Explorer.
So ‘Windows + E’, and I'm going to go to where my games are at the moment. Again, I've got
them on the media directory. You'll probably have them in a ‘c:\program files\Epic games’
and then we're going to use Epic Games here. Now I've got one game here, which is Fortnite,
and that's the game that we're going to move. So now we need to copy that to the new drive.
So I'm going to open up another file explorer. So ‘Windows + E’ keys. Have those side by side and
then I'm going to go to the folder of where I want to copy the game to. So ‘games\Epic Games’ and
it's an empty folder at the moment. Simply just click, hold your mouse button down and drag over
the folder and that's going to copy over all the all games, Well, just the one game here but it'll
copy over all your games into that new location. Right, so now that that's copied across
we now need to rename both the original and the new folder to something
different. Now I just tend to stick underscores in front of it so I'm
going to click on the original folder, stick an underscore in front of that. Go to
the new folder which I just copied across and put an underscore under there. So now
if we go back to the EA app, Fortnite says ‘install’ because it doesn't know where the
Fortnite folder is because we renamed it. So now we're going to go and install it. We're not actually going to install
it. It's this ‘trick’ bit. So we're now going to go and select the folder
that's on the new drive, so for us, or for me, in this case it's ‘E:\games\Epic
Games’ and I click on ‘select folder’. So now that's installing what you
want to do is wait until it's a few percent complete and then we're going to pause it. Right, and now pause that. So now if you go
into the new folder, in the new drive you will see the Fortnite folder has just been started
to be downloaded by the Epic Games launcher. So we want to delete that. It won't let you
do it though because the Epic Games launcher is trying to save to it so we need to kill the
Epic Games launcher. So just click on the top right of the Epic Games launcher. You do want to
make sure that it's not running in the background as well. So open up a task manager. That was
just a ‘windows’ and ‘X’ key to bring up that menu that you just saw. Then you should see
the ‘Epic Games launcher’ if you scroll down the processes list. Just right click on that.
Click on ‘end task’ and that shuts that down. So now that that's shut down we can now
go and delete that Fortnite directory and we can go and rename the underscore
one that we copied over previously to the real name, which is
the ‘Fortnite’ folder here. If we now go and start the Epic Games launch
app again now and go across to the library so now here it still says install. So
now because we've installed it to the same folder of where it thinks it's trying
to install it, rather than installing it again it's verifying the files that are there.
Now that the Epic Games launcher has finished verifying the files that was on your new
drive it's actually all ready to play now. You will need to do that for each game that you
have installed on your PC. So depending on how many games you already have installed that could
take a while but it is the fastest way to do it and it stops you having to download the games
all over again which will take even longer. Once you are happy with it
though, and it's all working, just remember to go back to the
original Epic Games folder that was on your C drive and delete those old
folders as you don't need them anymore. That's Epic Games all done! If you want to find out how to move games
in more game stores or find out which hard drive is best for gaming for you then
be sure to check out the links up here. I will put links actually to some hard drive
options in the description down below for you. Thanks for watching, if you have enjoyed the
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