Possible to back-up games?

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slugger_2003

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Hey all. It looks like I'm going to have to buy a new HD. The problem is that I have my games installed on the HD but the DVD's are in the UK where as I'm now living in Sweden as a student. Is it possible for me to back up the games so that I can use them on the new hard drive? I have a feeling that simply copying and pasting the game folder onto my external hard drive won't do the job....
Any comments appreciated, cheers.
 
only thing i'd see working out would be to clone your drive now, over to the new drive.
 
Image your OS (and if you have your games on a different partition, image that too), because most of your games probably also depend on entries the install wrote to the registry.
 
You can also back up the steam game installers so you don't have to redownload them again.
 
Clone the drive? Image the OS? Back-up steam game installers? How?
My extrernal hard drive is only 60gb and the laptop hard drive is 200gb...although my windows xp partition is only 40gb so I could copy that over if that's what is involved?
 
It really depends on the game; some games will work fine without their registry entries and some won't. That's certainly the simplest option, anyway.
 
They could do but I'm not really willing to pay for it, I don't need games that much...Some of them would end up costing the same if I just went out and bought them new or even second hand here.
Is norton ghost the only option? I've read that because I run dual boot xp/vista ghost v9 would be best for me rather than anything newer than that.
As I'm only looking to back-up xp, will it matter? Can I request specifically v9 from Norton?
 
DriveImageXL is free and will do this as well, along with paid software like Acronis and Ghost. Seagate has a version of Acronis for free on their site, but it might only work if one of the drives is a Seagate, but I never tested that.
 
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