How to restart all my torrents on a new hard drive?

[ishel99]

I am upgrading the hard drives in a computer that I use for Bittorrent, and if possible I want to resume my file sharing where I left off on the old drives. (I have my programs on Drive C and keep the actual data on Drive E). What is the easiest / most effective way of achieving this, assuming it is possible - I am planning on installing all programs On Drive C from scratch, partly so that I get a nice clean fresh install to start with... and can copy all the data files from old E to new E with no problems.

Will the new install of Bittorrent automatically find and recognize all my torrents if I point the program to the correct location on new Drive E?

What else should I / might I need to do?

[moogly]

Yes, if you don't change the driver letter E to a new one.

Save the entire folder %appdata%\utorrent and copy it on your fresh OS (drive C).

[ishel99]

Actually, I am using Bittorrent - do I simply copy the whole Program Files\Bittorrent folder across? Should I do an actual install of Bittorrent first, so that it is in the registry, and then replace the Bittorrent folder with the old one?

[moogly]

Replace utorrent by bittorrent in my previous post, that's all.

%ProgramFiles%\uTorrent contains only the executable, it's useless.

Your history and settings are stored by default in %appdata%\utorrent, that's this folder you have to save.

On your fresh OS, install uT, close it, and copy back %appdata%\utorrent. Then reopen uT.

[ishel99]

*slaps own forehead and rolls eyes at own stupidity* Of course! The appdata folder! I was too tired to make complete sense of that before, but it makes complete sense now... Thanks a heap, I'm sure that will work just fine. Now all I have to do is get the computer up and running to try it. Thanks for the help!