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Apr 16, 2006, 09:54 PM // 21:54
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: England
Profession: Rt/N
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External HD
My friend has recently been given a laptop, only to his dismay to find that it's got a massive 5GB HD. Split in two.
So, we were wondering if Guild Wars would operate fully if it was installed on an External HD, whilst the OS remained on the basic stuff in the laptop? Any help appreciated  Need to stop him hogging others computers!Edit: I should learn to use the search feature  However, I'll add to this as this one question doesn't seem to be answered properly (that I can find)If I were to install Gw on an external HD, would I need to manually place the registry file on the HD with the OS? Plus, can I do this with all my games? 
Last edited by Kaldor Meshekal; Apr 16, 2006 at 10:04 PM // 22:04.. |
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Apr 16, 2006, 10:43 PM // 22:43
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Wilds Pathfinder
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: UK
Guild: Warlords of Ruin
Profession: A/Mo
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Firtly if hes just got the laptop, remove the partitions.
Secondly there should be no reason why GW should not run out of an external HDD, however it will be slower and be more prone to lag, your External HDD is going to be using firewire / USB 2.0 at its best and they arnt fast compared to the computers ability to process something o its own HDD, but it should, in thoery work. |
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Apr 16, 2006, 10:53 PM // 22:53
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Lion's Arch Merchant
Join Date: Jun 2005
Location: Fairfax, VA
Guild: Shadows Of Nightmares (KoN)
Profession: W/
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Why don't you just buy a 40 gig Laptop hard drive....
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Apr 17, 2006, 10:14 AM // 10:14
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Tech Monkeh Mod
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Good Old North East of England
Profession: Mo/Me
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Whats the laptop spec, If it has a 5gig hard drive then it may be old, and might not be up to spec for running guild wars.
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Apr 17, 2006, 11:04 AM // 11:04
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Frost Gate Guardian
Join Date: Apr 2005
Location: England
Profession: Rt/N
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Because then he (my friend) would have to buy Windows OS. |
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