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0ri0n · 12-11-2010, 04:49 PM

I've heard of people moving there wow folder to a portable hard drive. Here is one way to do it.

Just connect your old hard drive to your new PC (as a slave, don't try and boot off it). In there, probably in your 'Program Files' folder, you'll have the 'World of Warcraft' folder.

Copy this folder. Put it in your new main drive (almost certainly your C: drive).

Inside the copied Warcraft folder will be a file called 'Launcher. e x e'. Right-click on this and select 'Send copy to desktop'.

You now have a new shortcut which will start Warcraft. That's it. Done. Remove the old drive at your leisure. The whole process should take less time than the original install.

This has worked twice for me so far on XP. Not tried on Vista but I suspect it will work there too. It's not hardware-dependent, as both times it was on completely different kit from the one I did the original install on.

12-11-2010, 04:49 PM	#10
0ri0n Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: Watertown, NY Age: 59 Posts: 236	Re: Hello I've heard of people moving there wow folder to a portable hard drive. Here is one way to do it. Just connect your old hard drive to your new PC (as a slave, don't try and boot off it). In there, probably in your 'Program Files' folder, you'll have the 'World of Warcraft' folder. Copy this folder. Put it in your new main drive (almost certainly your C: drive). Inside the copied Warcraft folder will be a file called 'Launcher. e x e'. Right-click on this and select 'Send copy to desktop'. You now have a new shortcut which will start Warcraft. That's it. Done. Remove the old drive at your leisure. The whole process should take less time than the original install. This has worked twice for me so far on XP. Not tried on Vista but I suspect it will work there too. It's not hardware-dependent, as both times it was on completely different kit from the one I did the original install on.