I’ve been putting it off all damn day today. I stupidly asked Facepunch “is it safe to do it?”. That wasn’t my only question. I was concerned what Windows would do to find it again.
\nAnd it turns out, all I have to do is get into DOS, and type “format E:\/” or something like that, then wait, and it’s done!<\/p>\n
So, now I know HOW to reformat. But there’s a new issue… how in the fuck am I going to MOVE my crap off of my E drive?! ALL of my games are stored on that drive, including a whopping 96GB Steam folder.<\/p>\n
Though I have decided just before I typed the title to this entry, that I’m going to try to just uninstall my games, one by one, and just backup my savegames and settings. This should ease the stress on me of what I have to move to one of my two other drives.
\nFirst, I have to get them installed in the registry before I can uninstall. And that won’t be easy. Some games will go “NO! You must reinstall me!” instead of “Hang on. Giving you access to game”.<\/p>\n
For the nay-sayers (maybe like WoW) I’ll just have to look around and backup what I can remember that needs to be saved so I won’t lose my personal data.
\nThe 2nd thing I need to be concerned with, is space on my two drives. Will I have enough space on either of them to copy the contents from a large 250GB drive, that’s only half full?
\nWell. That’s what the uninstall should take care of. Steam will always allow me to reinstall my games, anytime I need to. As for EA Download Manager, it’s the same thing.. I think. I don’t know if it will still allow me to reinstall after so many months. If not, this means, no Crysis and Crysis Warhead.<\/p>\n
The reformat of the E drive should be flawless, and will not need help.<\/p>\n
There is one other thing I’m worried about. Deeply worried. Once the reformat is over, and I get my crap back on… I fear I’m just going to put back what’s fucking up my games again.
\n“Just install Steam and a game, then play it” you might say. Ok. Lets say it doesn’t lock up. Yayness.
\nThen I go to put my stuff back, play again, and “LOL FUCK UP”.
\nNot only will that sicken me, that means it could be ANY game, folder, or file causing it. Or multiple files. I do NOT wanna think this!<\/p>\n
In a way, I WANT it to lock up after installing just one game after reformatting. This will prove to me it is indeed a hardware issue, and it’s pointing to my video card, and NOT what was on my E drive.<\/p>\n
I will try all of this tomorrow. It’s too late to do it now.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I’ve been putting it off all damn day today. I stupidly asked Facepunch “is it safe to do it?”. That wasn’t my only question. I was concerned what Windows would do to find it again. And it turns out, all … Continue reading