How to Move League of Legends to Another Drive | 3 Effective Ways

With 115 million players in over 145 countries, League of Legends is a popular game. If you're a League of Legends player, you may have experienced the problem of the game running slower and slower, perhaps due to lack of disk space or other issues.

What remains is to move League of Legends to another drive. In this case, a tool like this one can come in handy:

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We recommend three simple ways to illustrate how to move League of Legends to another drive. Among the three solutions, the Todo PCTrans tool can transfer the game to HDD or SSD without re-downloading. The other two methods require manual operations.

Method 1: Move League of Legends to Another Drive with a Game Transfer Tool

To save your time and ensure the safety of your data, you can use a free PC transfer software like Todo PCTrans Free to migrate LOL. No extra devices needed! This user-friendly program helps you transfer applications from one drive to another.

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You'll need to connect your new SSD or HDD to your computer ahead of time. If the target drive is already in your computer, skip ahead to the following steps:

Step 1: Run Todo PCTrans and choose the transfer mode.

On the main interface of Todo PCTrans tool, go to the “App Migration” section and click “Start” to proceed.

Select migration mode

Step 2: Choose the app to move and another drive

1. Select the source partition and check the applications, programs, and software you want to migrate (labeled as "Yes").

2. Click the triangle icon to select another drive or disk as the target device, and then click “Migrate” to start the transfer.

Select the apps you want to migrate

Step 3: Complete the migration process

When the transfer is finished, click “OK” to complete the process.

You can restart your computer to apply the changes, and the migration app should run again on the other disk.

Finish app migration

It has many other virtues, too.

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• Migrate or backup data and accounts between two computers
• Transfer applications from one computer to another (such as Office, Adobe, email, browsers, etc.)
• Recover programs, files, and accounts from an unbootable or damaged PC
• Supports Windows XP/Vista/7/8/8.1/10/11 and Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2016/2019

"Video tutorial on how to use 'App Migration'"

If you prefer a video tutorial on how to move League of Legends to another drive, we've got you covered with the basics of the “App Migration” mode.

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Not only can it change the LOL game location, but it can also move an Origin game to another drive. Alternatively, you can remove it from your computer to free up more disk space for new games:

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Method 2: Copy and Paste

For moving the game files, we usually resort to the copy and paste method. This is also how you would move League of Legends to another drive. The steps involve finding the League of Legends folder and moving said folder to another drive.

Step 1: Locate the League of Legends game folder (usually in C:\Riot Games\League of Legends), right-click on it, and select “Copy.”

< strong > Step 2 : Navigate to the game's folder on your external hard drive and copy it.

Step 3: Open the new location of the LOL folder and launch LeagueClient.exe (log in with your Riot Account).

Moving Riot Games to Another Drive Reinstalling

You can also try manually uninstalling League of Legends through the Windows Settings, and then reinstall it from the official website.

Step 1: Go to Settings > Apps > Apps & features > Uninstall.

< strong > Step 2 : Download the game from its official website. Click "Advanced" to change the installation location to your preferred folder.

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Reasons for moving League of Legends to another drive

If you go to the LoL forums and search for some of these terms, you'll see lots of examples. Here are a few:

Case 1: “My question is, how do I move League of Legends from my current HDD to an SSD once I have booted up and everything is running fine? I know it's simple with Steam games, but I haven't seen any specific answers for League of Legends anywhere.”

Case 2: "I cannot update because of insufficient space. How can I move League of Legends to another hard drive? Please reply as soon as possible."

Scenario 3: "I have a 500 GB SSD, and I want to move all my games there so they run faster. What's the best way to do this? Thanks, I'm not very computer literate."

The main reasons for inclusion were:

• No additional space to store the game updates.
• Free up hard drive space.
• To provide a better environment for running the game on another drive.

In the sections below, you can use three methods to change the installation location of LOL. We first publish the most reliable method – with the tool Todo PCTrans.

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Conclusions

This process might take some time, depending on your hard drive, RAM, and processor. Times will vary. A professional tool is more reliable for this than a manual method. A simple method we tested is with the Todo PCTrans tool.

If you still want to move it manually, you can try changing the installation location of League of Legends through "Settings > Apps > Apps & features" and then "Move." However, not all games or apps support being moved to another drive, so it might not work.