Installing to E drive

migitpoo73

I was running out of space on my c drive and so i uninstalled all of my sims 3 games and went into origin into appication settings, install & saves, game library location and changed the directory of my program files (x86) to e drive, will it install all my sims 3 games to e drive from origin by putting the folder in e drive from origin? thanks all for replys and happy simmin

migitpoo73

Help trying to install the sims 3 to e drive

igazor

How large is the C drive? Just reinstalling to a different drive may not be enough, depending on which drive your Documents library where your TS3 user game folder is on. But that can be moved and redirected as well.

Is the E drive internal to the computer or is it an external drive?

migitpoo73

E is Internal drive, when the computer was built he put E drive in because he said it was bigger than my c drive. C drive is 111 GB and E drive is 297 GB thanks for helping im not good at this computer stuff as you can see Happy Simmin

igazor

There is no way for us to tell just from the letters used to identify the drives which might be internal or external, so had to ask that. Yes, your C drive is too small to carry Windows and the game, a drive of that size is really meant for Windows alone plus maybe some system programs like anti-virus and such.

What you will want to do is create a new folder on E, call it "Programs (x86) on E" (or whatever you want to call it) and instruct Origin to install the game on that folder. Programs don't like being installed on the root (lowest level) directory of a volume, so just using E:\ likely won't work.

If you are uninstalling the game first, you will need to clean the Windows Registry with a tool like the free version of Piriform's CCleaner.
https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

For the Documents library, where your TS3 user game folder with added store and custom content, installed worlds, mods, saved households and lots, and your saved games are, you will want to instruct Windows to redirect your entire Documents library from C over to E. It's still "Documents" or "My Documents" but the data will really be on the E drive. You may want to pull your existing game folder out to your Desktop first for safekeeping so that nothing gets lost in the change, then put it back into the newly relocated directory. That is, if you have anything in there you want to keep.

This is for Win 10, but there are similar instructions all over the web for other versions of Windows.
http://www.dummies.com/computers/operating-systems/windows-10/how-to-change-the-location-of-user-folders-in-windows-10

migitpoo73

Thank you so much for helping me have a very Simtastic Day

Idontrcall

Ooh - I just made a topic similar to this. I will look through this for advice. I didn't see it before I posted, and I admit I didn't look.

Bad Lala!

Thanks!