Acronis Disk Director Suite 10 ftw!
Jill got Wow's Wrath of the Lich King for Hanukkah.
Time to install it.
But first, relocate the entire WoW installation to the 1 TB Barracuda SATA drive I installed in there during the late October hard drive disaster.
Oops.
When I set up the big drive, it was as a destination for backup and recovery services during the reconstruction of the existing--but crashed--hard drive.
I never reconfigured the drive to behave as a normal storage device.
Hell, at the time I was just happy to have a recovered PC installation with all applications running correctly.
Okaaaaay.
Pulled out Acronis.
Brought up the partitioning tools.
Advanced, Manual Mode.
Located about 700 free Gigs and created a new partition out of it.
Moved and deleted a couple extra backups from the Time of Troubles.
Closed Acronis and restarted the PC.
All drives checked in.
With the correct drive letters.
Total time to repartition and clean up the files: 8 minutes.
I am never going to use Partition Magic again.
Evar.
Next: moved and upgraded Wow:
- Located the installed files under Program Files.
- Copied to their new drive space.
- Renamed the old folder.
- Repointed the desktop icon for WoW's launcher to the new folder space.
- Booted up Wow and tested the new location.
- Testing: mailed stuff between characters, deleted a character, created a new character, doublechecked maps and character locations on the maps, etc.
- Rebooted.
- Fired up the upgrade DVD
- Grinned as the autoloader found the new location for the files and installed Lich King to the right place.
- Updated the account with Blizzard during the installation.
- Fired up Wrath of the Lich King.
- Tested by playing the damn thing long enough to level a 1st level Blood Elf priest to sixth.
Total time for the entire migration and upgrade, including updating the account with Blizzard and the subsequent patching (which kicked off automatically upon the installation completion) to the Lich King files:
45 minutes.
As in, less than an hour.
Man.
I hope this is an omen for the rest of 2009.
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