SRS re: your query on games.

Many games have websites with FAQ that may offer help.

In the absence of info on the specific games, the safest method would be for him to reinstall the games. The reinstallation will likely make folders same-named as the folders on the old drive. He may be able to copy just the file(s) that kept his game status into the new folders created by the installation to recover where he was in the games. It's impossible to say what filenames for the game history might be, but he may be able to recoginize them if he looks "intelligently." Sometimes it's easy, and sometimes not.

A Win Explorer search in the game folder for files "modified after" a date just prior to the last time the game was played may(?) reveal what files get updated during play to help narrow the choices.

I can't guarantee this will work, but if it does it could be simpler than attempting to rebuild the game from the inside to point to different locations.

If it doesn't work as expected, he should of course uninstall the game (on the new drive) before reinstalling to clear anything messed up by the copying.

A few games I've heard of appear to have an "import identity" function so that a visiting player can bring his/her history to the game on another machine, but I have no idea how common this is. It's probably more common in multi-player games(?). It might be worth looking for, once the game is reinstalled and before trying to fix it, if it sounds like a possibility.

A last resort, if nothing else works, would be to copy the game folder to the new drive as a complete folder. It might run, but probably not. An "overlay reinstall" sometimes - with some programs - may see the folder(s) you copied as an "older version," and will copy the program files and registry entries, but may attempt to preserve "settings" from the older version (which may or may not include player histories.)

John