What is the risk of moving my C: Program Files folder to D: drive?

I have the Big Fish game manager with a lot of games supported by it. I didn't know this at the time, but when my hard drive started to get too full, I realized that it installs games to C: drive. (I set my exe. files up to go to D: but unbeknownst to me, they install to C). I can't reconfigure this player (Big Fish tech support confirmed this) and my games (about 20 of them, paid for) depend on keeping the player.





Big Fish also told me that while the player sends games to the Program Files folder, it doesn't matter where that folder is.





So theoretically I could move the Program Files folder to D: drive, along with the bulky game downloads...and they would play.





Games are a big part of my computer time, but I don't want to mess around and ruin anything else in the computer by doing this...make other programs unusable or damage them because I do need the computer for other things.

What is the risk of moving my C: Program Files folder to D: drive?
If you move C:\Program Files to D: (should the system let you), I guarantee you'll regret it big time. Lots of things use Program Files (just browse through it and see -- Look but don't touch), and if you move it or rename it, they may not know where to find what they're looking for.





Sorry to disappoint.
Reply:I have run into something similar. I went with a 200gig drive and used the included CD to mirror the C:\ to the 200gig as slave. Power down. Unplug it all. Master jumper pins on the 200gig. Put the D:/ back into the cabinet and everything works.





It is important that whatever mirror program you get runs the computer itself, without WIN running the computer. WIN blocks access to the Windows folder.
Reply:dunno what big fish is, assuming its online gaming.


if its online the biggest problem your gunna run into is if the game tried loading flash or something and looks for the app in a local folder (i.e., in your windows folder) and it doesnt find anything. it may just have your reinstall java or flash, but doubt this is the case


if its a local game then i would leave it on C. games and other programs often make calls to other apps on the computer, and it almost always defaults to look on C for what it needs
Reply:You could loose all that is stored in both

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