Adding Windows 10 system disk into my rig

[I'm Back]

Hi I have already windows 7 with some Steam games installed.
I want to add another perhaps a SSD for windows 10 and installing the same games of STEAM.
But I have add-ons on the games like FSX and TS2019. How I can do it in easy way.
My all games in Win7 installed in system drive

Am I install the windows 10 then STEAM
after then copy all files from Win7 Sysdrive to win10 sysdrive?

[nullable]

Copying the files is one way to do it.

[I'm Back]

First installing the game & download via STEAM then copying the files?
Any suggestions will be very helpfull

[nullable]

You can copy the game files to their new location, and then attempt to install the game via Steam. Steam should recognize the existing game files, verify them, skip downloading and complete installation. It's pretty flexible that way.

[Washell]

Install Windows 10
Start Windows 10
Go to the Steam folder on the Windows 7 drive
Run Steam.exe
Play your games, including all add-ons

No need to duplicate or copy anything.

[AnoMorgan]

steam has inbuilt backup system why not use that to backup games the move them to the win 10 ssd

[LeROY]

just buy a cloning tool for 7-10$ its worth it

[nullable]

引用自 CucKooDuck：

steam has inbuilt backup system why not use that to backup games the move them to the win 10 ssd

It's a legacy feature,from an era where people were likely to burn data to CD or DVD, which is why the default archive sizes default to those. It's not doing anything special though. It's just an added step if you're moving data from drive to drive.

引用自 LeROY：

just buy a cloning tool for 7-10$ its worth it

A lot of SSD manufacturers provide their own cloning tools, so that's often not necessary. It also depends whether OP wants to clone his drive or not. Seeing as he's adding an SSD and installing Windows10, and his old drive is Windows 7, he might not want to clone the drive. People still have mixed feelings about upgrade vs clean install.

[LeROY]

引用自 LeROY：

just buy a cloning tool for 7-10$ its worth it

wtf dude [/quote]

Was a bit quick on the trigger, thought it was a hdd to ssd migration, and in my experience the advice given in those threads aren't really good.

TO OP.

Just keep the games on the old drive and add D:steamapps.... to game library(assuming SSD is now C:). I have games on 2 SSDs and 2 HDDs

I prefer to use SSD on "heavy" programs, video editing/creating (specially cause of betaflight blackbox explorer), fl-studio, Everything Adobe and 10000 codecs/add-ons/effects/tweaks etc. instead of games, but thats my library of games!

This will shorten the longetivity of the SSD and is probably the opposite of what most users here do and advice but its still safer and more reliable than hdd, and everything steam is easy to replace.
Other reasons for me personal:
*I use closed headset when gaming so any hdd sound is non-issue, but I use speakers with music and most video work and once you notice the humming
*Of the 200 games I have, PUBG has been the only game I HAD to run from SSD cause of rendering issues a while back ..dont know if this is still an issue though, and games with loads of custom maps and textures benefit a lot.
*The seconds you save in most games are for me insignificant compared to loading presets, loops, samples or Lighroom, After effects and what not.
*Setting launch-commands and tweaking game-files a bit will in many games save you more than SSD if game is on "factory-settings"(meaning Intros, hardware scanning, cloud syncing, tip-of the-day......)
*Games can suddenly get a 50gig update..

Unless you have a serious overheating issue or severe adhd most games are better left on the hdd..
Dont expect it to be like TF2 where you become better based on your Unusual/effect

[nullable]

引用自 LeROY：

I prefer to use SSD on "heavy" programs, video editing/creating (specially cause of betaflight blackbox explorer), fl-studio, Everything Adobe and 10000 codecs/add-ons/effects/tweaks etc. instead of games, but thats my library of games!

This will shorten the longetivity of the SSD and is probably the opposite of what most users here do and advice but its still safer and more reliable than hdd, and everything steam is easy to replace.

Anyone talking about SSD lifespans or longevity, IE bit exhaustion at this point is just padding their posts. I challenge anyone who thinks this matters to sit down and do the math of exactly how much 200TBW is or 1200TBW really is. Estimate how long you imagine you want to use the drive for, figure out how may days that is, and figure out how many hundreds of GB per day that shakes out to just to hit the TBW limit stated for the warranty. Now never mind that most drives will easily exceed that limit two or three times over, aside from rotten luck that TBW values aren't authoritative of exactly how long the drive will last. They're values that are pretty much guaranteed not to generates mountains of warranty claims. That's it.


As for the rest of your post, it's personal opinions. You're still sold on a small or medium sized SSD and a large HDD. Some people are because this has been the norm for years, and some people are because they don't have the budget to, or aren't interesting in spending extra on SSD space.

I'm running TB's of SSD space and no HDDs and it's a pretty good way to live. Any time I can load something faster on a SSD I'm covered. And any time something doesn't really load faster, eh I don't care. If you have the means going all SSD is recommended. Trea yo self.