Copying files to another hard drive?

[mbrave77]

I have pinup player, visual pinball, etc setup on my C drive. If I want to use another hard drive can I just copy and paste my folders over? Will it work? Or would I need to freshly install visual pinball and pinup player on that HD?

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[Friffy1]

No.  There are tons of Registry entries.  If you want to replace your HDD, you’ll want to clone the existing.  Which doesn’t mean you can’t migrate to a larger disk, if that’s what you’re after.

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[Genesis38]

Speaking from experience, I attempted to cheat by copying all the folders and registry keys to another drive and it ended up being a mess and nightmare to deal with. Seeing the AIO installer is so simple to use, it’s best to start over and copy your VP files that way. I setup another Vpin 3 screen setup in 2 hours from scratch doing it this way. 

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[Mlager8]

I’ve never tried this with vpx, but a symbolic link might work. Basically it’s a shortcut for windows that tells the system the folder is at one locations, but it’s really a shortcut to a folder at some other location.

Check out this link:

https://www.howtogeek.com/howto/16226/complete-guide-to-symbolic-links-symlinks-on-windows-or-linux/

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