Gaming Laptop on a 1400$ Budget

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Rawlaw

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K up and working fine. Though i can't figure out how to put my games on it. I want to because my comp. dosen't have enough room for windows 7. Should i download it too my external hardrive???
 
bomberboysk

bomberboysk

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Rawlaw said:
K up and working fine. Though i can't figure out how to put my games on it. I want to because my comp. dosen't have enough room for windows 7. Should i download it too my external hardrive???
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Yeah. You can put games on it once you install windows 7, as your gonna have to reinstall everything with windows 7 anyhow. Just make a folder on your hard drive called like "programs", and set your install directory for games to there.
 
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Rawlaw

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Do I have to reinstall all my games? I was hoping I could put my games on my external, install windows 7 on my comp then play my games fom the external.
 
bomberboysk

bomberboysk

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Rawlaw said:
Do I have to reinstall all my games? I was hoping I could put my games on my external, install windows 7 on my comp then play my games fom the external.
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You need to reinstall the games, as just "putting them on the external" would not have the right file locations/registry entries/etc for windows 7 to use. Plus you cant just move a program from say, drive C: to drive F: without reinstalling it.
 
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Rawlaw

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It's going to take 12 hours because i am at a hotel with a crappy internet connection... So how do i download my stuff onto the external hardrive once it finishes?
 
bomberboysk

bomberboysk

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Rawlaw said:
It's going to take 12 hours because i am at a hotel with a crappy internet connection... So how do i download my stuff onto the external hardrive once it finishes?
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Like documents and whatnot? Just copy and paste anything you need, then you can get around to reformatting with windows 7..
 
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Rawlaw

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K here is my problem I have no documents on my computer just games that I would rather not reinstall. During the night the download stopped. I am just going to wait till I get home but I wanted to know if I could move my whole game to my external before installing windows 7.
 
bomberboysk

bomberboysk

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Rawlaw said:
K here is my problem I have no documents on my computer just games that I would rather not reinstall. During the night the download stopped. I am just going to wait till I get home but I wanted to know if I could move my whole game to my external before installing windows 7.
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No, you have to reinstall games in windows 7 or they will not work, Doesnt matter if they are on the external hard drive or not.
 
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Rawlaw

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k. are you sure that website will let me install Windows 7 because i had a problem with it before not installing
 
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