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I have recently bought a new hard drive as my primary (c:) was getting full and I am now in the process of moving programs over. But I installed STO as a stand alone download (not Steam, etc) and was wondering if anyone knew how and where in the registry i would need to edit to allow STO to be copied to the new drive? I don't have the internet download limit spare to re-download.

I may be able to work it out if I was using XP, but I have also recently upgraded to Win7 64 bit and I'm not that familiar with the OS yet.

Thanks
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    best way is to copy the hogg files of your old install to a temp location then do the initial install to the new drive. Then copy the hogg files to the new location.
    you will be already to go.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Thanks, I'll give it a go.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Well I tried this and it did not go well.

    Not only did it still have to download 2GB worth of data, I still had to do the 2GB patch which thanks to the incredibly slow server STO are running for the patches took over 6 hours and it only downloads about 1.6GB.

    Then finally get the game going again, then one of the sound files in the sound.hogg file was corrupt.

    Comparing the Hogg files from my previous instal to this one, some are quite different, how can two files which are meant to be the same be different?

    I won't be doing this again.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Copy the entire folder not just the hogg files.

    I have a machine that can boot into more than one OS and my first purchase was the DDE. So I did the copy entire folder thing before.

    On the OS I didn't "install" it on, I had to create my own desktop shortcut though. Vista/Win7 may need a small tweak.

    The reason it's a large download is because items are still missing. Just copying the hogg's which I see that directory is 8+ gigs, is it's just not needing those but still needs other things.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    What he said.


    Copy everything (use an external HDD or a generously provisioned USB Flash key). No reinstallation needed, just run Star Trek Online from your User/Games/Cryptic Studios directory (assuming Win Vista/7). Assuming you patched it before copying it should fire right up.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Muhler wrote:
    What he said.


    Copy everything (use an external HDD or a generously provisioned USB Flash key). No reinstallation needed, just run Star Trek Online from your User/Games/Cryptic Studios directory (assuming Win Vista/7). Assuming you patched it before copying it should fire right up.

    He mentioned the "tweak" ;)

    I had it installed on XP first and it installed in Program Files/Cryptic Studios directory. Vista/Win7 needs the folder in User/Games/Cryptic Studios.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    It's all good but annoying.

    With the sound files, I just did a verify on the launcher and it seems to have corrected the problem. But now I'm getting a problem when I try to "load" a mission, something in the bin.hogg file. From other advice I found elsewhere when this happens is to "backup" the corrupt .hogg file then delete, and then do a force verify at the launcher. Going through this now and hopefully it will work. Been two whole days without STO, withdraw symptoms :D


    Edit:
    Finally completed the launcher "force verify" and patch (redownloaded) the faulty .hogg file, and it works... lets me get into the mission anyway, only had enough time to do a test for the specific issue, I hope there aren't anymore errors.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    He mentioned the "tweak" ;)

    I had it installed on XP first and it installed in Program Files/Cryptic Studios directory. Vista/Win7 needs the folder in User/Games/Cryptic Studios.

    That's interesting because when I originally installed onto my system(Win7-64) it went into c:/Program Files (x86)/Cryptic studios/...... folder. I was expecting the same when I installed onto the other drive.
    Muhler wrote:
    Copy everything (use an external HDD or a generously provisioned USB Flash key). No reinstallation needed, just run Star Trek Online from your User/Games/Cryptic Studios directory (assuming Win Vista/7). Assuming you patched it before copying it should fire right up.

    I tried this first, and even tried adjusting the registry to suit but it didn't like it, It didn't let me load the launcher. I ran it from the .exe in the Cryptic/STO directory, not via a shortcut.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited April 2010
    Aussie1 wrote: »
    That's interesting because when I originally installed onto my system(Win7-64) it went into c:/Program Files (x86)/Cryptic studios/...... folder. I was expecting the same when I installed onto the other drive.



    I tried this first, and even tried adjusting the registry to suit but it didn't like it, It didn't let me load the launcher. I ran it from the .exe in the Cryptic/STO directory, not via a shortcut.

    The STO folder has one called Game Client or something like that. There should be the launcher in the Cryptic Studios folder that you would run.

    Try using what coderanger linked in this thread: http://forums.startrekonline.com/showthread.php?t=140166&page=2
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