File transfer to another hard drive

[Bennett1143]

I have three hard drives. One is only 50 GB that has my OS on it. The second one is a 500 GB which has all my games and applications on it. Then i recently bought a Terabyte to transfer everything in my 500 to the TB. I just simply cut and pasted everything into my TB but when I start up my games is tells me to o something with my Registry Editor or it tells me " Cannot find game executable file." I really don't want to screw up the registry please help.

 

[XistenZ]

When you install games and programs they add information to the registry containing which path they installed to, for example D:/games/myGame. Now when you move the game(s) to another place, example E:/old HDD/games/myGame, then you can't run them because the path does not match.
Simply put

Just changing the right files in the registry might correct it, but there's a ton of other things that might still not work. Just reinstall everything you're going to use again and all will be alright again. Savefiles and such are usually stored in the game-folder itself, and sometimes a directory in "my documents" or "my games", just copy/paste that when you reinstalled and keep on going where you left off.