Okay so recently I bought a Dell Inspiron 15 3000 series laptop (3510) and I had wow installed on my 128gb nvme.2 drive which is where windows 11 was installed as well. I rode it out with a few crashes due to low memory here and there until I got an external hard drive 2TB’s just today. I installed 50gb of wow last night on 1.2mpbs wifi hoping that today I can transfer over to external hard drive (D:)
I transferred the wow folder over this morning and then battle.net app would not install on the D drive. I couldnt figure out why but then I looked it up and it said I had to format the drive. The drive tells me if I format it its going to delete any data stored on it. I went ahead and purchased a local cable wifi pass and let the drive format. I had a few issues before formatting like corrupt files that i could not delete and such and also found an article saying I had to go to windows system storage settings and select where I wanted new things to be installed to. I selected the D drive which is my external drive and until formatting was unable to download battle.net onto the D drive. I am unsure which drive battle.net is installed to right now, and I have about 25% of wow downloaded but when I tried playing and downloading while playing I experienced two errors, the first i cant remember, i think it was either low memory or it just told me something broke after crashing, the second error said there was an I/O file system problem and then it broke again. I restarted my computer and wow did its repair/update and its now back to downloading the game. I need help figuring out where bnet is installed and if its okay for example to install bnet on C drive, yet, store WoW on D drive upon beginning installation and I would also like to know why I am recieving errors about I/O and am not able to play. I’m pretty much just going to wait for the whole thing to download unless someone has some ideas to help. I’m sorry for the long read.
is the drive a USB3 (Seagate drives are crap made in china) if you do get the drive to format. (using a friends computer may help) install battle net app and install it to the external drive first then download or copy world of warcraft files run the repair tool to see if there are any problems (it may do a update) then see if the shortcuts are pointed to the external drive… right click the shortcut … properties see if the Target location is something like “C:\GAMES\World of Warcraft_retail_\Wow.exe” and “C:\GAMES\Battle.net\Battle.net Launcher.exe”
Yes it is a USB 3.0, I got it on sale on amazon, it looks to be chinese made by VendorCo. It was a 2TB drive on sale for 30$. I don’t have access to another computer right now… I did realize that I made the mistake of formatting the drive as exFat… I copied what I had downloaded so far and moved it to C, reformatted as NTFS and now i’m copying files back over to D. I will check for playing while downloading stability once it’s all copied over, scanned, and downloading again. I’ll have a look at the .exe to see if it’s pointing to C or D, thank you very much for commenting!
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