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9 years ago

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Relocating Origin game library after a virus presented problems.

Hello, I recently suffered from an infection of a virus and had to relocate my game library to another drive, after formatting the hardrive that origin was on (C:\) and reinstalling windows and or...

battlefield 4

Carbonic
9 years ago
It seems like a permissions issue. Try starting Origin as administrator:

You might also want to reinstall Origin again after a manual uninstall:

http://help.ea.com/en/article/manually-uninstalling-origin/

Is Origin installed in the default location?

Carbonic

Hero+

9 years ago

You probably want to get your Windows fixed before fixing anything else. Windows is the foundation and why build upon a foundation that is falling apart.

What have you done to fix your Windows? Have you run Windows System File Checker after checking the harddrives?

As for the games, what procedure/method did you use for moving the games so they work in the Origin client?

ActiveLurkerLif
9 years ago
The disk was formatted and windows was reinstalled. SFC /Scannow was run anyway after reviewing system event log.
- ActiveLurkerLif
  9 years ago
  As for the comprehensive guide I followed:
  
  [Guide] Moving/Reinstalling Origin and Games Without Re-Downloading
- ActiveLurkerLif
  9 years ago
  For arguments sake 🙂
  
  C:\Windows\System32>sfc /scannow
  
  Beginning system scan. This process will take some time.
  
  Beginning verification phase of system scan.
  Verification 100% complete.
  
  Windows Resource Protection did not find any integrity violations.
  - Carbonic
    Hero+
    9 years ago
    It seems like a permissions issue. Try starting Origin as administrator:
    
    You might also want to reinstall Origin again after a manual uninstall:
    
    http://help.ea.com/en/article/manually-uninstalling-origin/
    
    Is Origin installed in the default location?