How to Move Fortnite to Another Drive without Redownloading?

Why move Fortnite to another drive?

Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It has up to now attracted millions of players worldwide and this game is available on PS4, Windows, and Xbox One as well.

However, for Windows players, sometimes they wish to move Fortnite to another drive for different purposes, for example, the default installation C drive or the drive where the game is installed is full and the game performs poorly; or they want the game to run on an SSD which shortens the game’s loading time.

How to move Fortnite to another drive?

There are not plenty of choices when it comes to moving Fortnite from one drive to another. People usually take the way to uninstall the game and then, redownload and install it. This method is okay to some extent, however, too time-consuming. So, this time, I listed 2 faster ways to help you with the Fortnite game transfer.

Move Fortnite to another drive in EPIC

Since Fortnite is a game installed on your PC from the Epic Games Launcher, you can move it to another location using these steps:

1. Make a backup copy of Fortnite.

                1.1 Navigate to Fortnite installation directory. The default is C:\Program Files\Epic Games\Fortnite

                1.2 Copy Fortnite folder to another location on your PC.

2. Run the Epic Games Launcher.

3. Click on “Library”.

4. Locate Fortnite. Hit the 3-dot besides it and hit “Uninstall”.

5. Once the game is uninstalled, hit it in your library to start installation and select the new installation location you wish it to be in.

6. Once the download starts, wait until 2~3% is completed and then, hit the 3-dot next to the game name and hit “Cancel Install”.

7. Go to the new installation directory you previously selected and paste the backup game folder to this location. If you are prompted to replace any duplicate files, just click on “Replace” to proceed.

8. Resume the installation.

9. After the files get verified, you should be able to start the game successfully.

Move Fortnite to another drive with third-party software without redownloading

As you can see, the first way above is indeed faster than the uninstall-reinstall method. However, it still takes 9 steps before it’s completed and a redownloading process is still required although it’s faster than a full download. And factually, it also takes time to fully comprehend those steps and once you make a wrong step, the game can’t be normally launched.

So, in this case, I recommend a better easier alternative –AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard– to help move Fortnite to another drive without redownloading. Within only a few clicks, you can copy the entire partition where Fortnite is to another hard drive quickly and securely.

More than copying a partition to another, this software also helps clone hard drives and even migrate OS to SSD.

If you’re still wondering how to move Fortnite to another drive securely and easily. Then, you shouldn’t miss this powerful disk manager. Now, it’s time to download it for free and have a try.

Note: Before we get started, please make sure there is at least 1 piece of unallocated space in the target disk, if not, make sure to delete or shrink the partition to create 1.

Step 1. Install and launch AOMEI Partition Assistant,  right-click the partition you want to clone and select the "Clone Partition" tool to run partition clone. (You can also click the "Clone" main tab and select "Clone Partition".)

Step 2. In next window, select the destination partition or unallocated space to hold your source partition, and then click "Confirm".

Step 3. Then, you will enter the Confirm interface where you can check the source and destination clone location. After all is set, you can click the "Confirm" button to continue.

Notes:

• There is a "4k alignment" option. If you want to copy a partition onto a SSD (Solid State Drive), ticking this option will optimize the read and write speed on this partition. It can also extend the life of the SSD.
• If you select the "Sector-by-Sector Clone" mode, the unallocated space must be equal or larger than source partition. If you tick the option, it will be unable to resize the destination partition.

Step 4. In the next window, you can click the "Settings" button to adjust the target partition size. As you can see from the screenshot, you could adjust the size of source partition in order to fit the target partition as per your need, or directly skip the step and click "Save".

Step 5. You can preview the partition copy operating by viewing the "Pending Operations". To commit the "Pending Operations", please click "Apply" and "Proceed".

The cloning process will start and you can check the cloning process. Once the process is completed successfully, you will get a congratulation window. Finally, you can check the partition layout on the destination disk will be identical to the source partition.

Now, navigate to the folder where the game is and check whether Fortnite can be normally launched.

Note: You can also move Steam games to another drive in a similar way.

Conclusion

Many Fortnite players wish to move the game to another drive for different purposes but they have no idea how to do it. So, in this tutorial, I exhaustively explain how to move Fortnite to another drive in 2 different ways. By comparison, the second way AOMEI Partition Assistant Standard is much easier and faster and you don’t need to redownload the game. If you want to try other features like allocation of free space and partition splitting, please upgrade it to Pro version.