The Best Way to Change Drive for Oculus Rift

Oculus Rift VR

With the development of the science and technology, Virtual Reality (Known as VR) has been booming in recent years. It’s worth mentioning that the top three VR manufacturers are the Oculus VR which acquired by Facebook in 2014, Samsung Electronics, and Sony Interactive Entertainment. Their representatives are the Oculus Rift, Samsung Gear VR, and Sony PlayStation VR.

Oculus Rift is the best Virtual Reality headset product, and attracts many people and game enthusiasts to experience the magical VR games, which makes you feel like you’re really there. You could also feel the shock of VR movies, pictures, etc.

Why Oculus Change Drive?

Computer is needed when Oculus Rift running so that you have to download and run the Rift’s setup tool in your computer to install all the software you need to use Oculus Rift. However, Oculus Rift only allows you to install Oculus Rift and its games, software to the system drive (that is the C:\ drive).

Generally, the C drive is small and filled up with system files, software and other files. You have to delete some unnecessary files and uninstall other software to spare more free space to install VR games. VR games are usually too large, C drive almost full after the VR games and software installed, which will influence on the performance of computer and reduce the running speed of the system.

Overview: Move Oculus Rift to A Different Drive

Luckily, Oculus VR updates the latest software for Oculus Rift, which gives an option that allows you to install games on a different drive. For new users it’s easy to work, but for current users, you have to backup applications and games you have installed to a safe place, then uninstall Oculus application; after that, install the latest Oculus application on another drive instead of C drive, finally restore your games and applications.

This solution is sort of complex, is there any other way to move Oculus to another drive to speed up the computer? And how to realize Oculus change drive? Maybe you have to taking advantage of the third party migration software to move Oculus installation to another drive.

Reliable Way to Oculus Change Drive

The best free software - vrBackupper is designed to move Oculus Rift installation directory to a different drive instead of the C drive to solve the low disk space issues, as well as backup and restore Oculus Rift, its games, applications.

vrBackupper only supports Windows 10 64-bit computers by far, and is compatible with other Windows operating system in the near future.

Following we will describe how to change drive for Oculus Rift.

Step 1: Download vrBackupper, install and run this program. On the main window, at the “Migrate Oculus Installation” tab, the program will detect the “Source Location” (Oculus Rift Installation directory) automatically.

Step 2: Manually select the directory of New Location by clicking “…” to save the Oculus Rift Installation files. Then hit “Start Move” to continue.

Step 3: Wait for a few minutes, you will find the progress of Migration is 100% completed. Then click “OK” to exit.

Now, Oculus Rift has already changed drive successfully. In addition, you can also backup and restore Oculus Rift to change drive, even move Oculus to other computers.

Tip: vrBackupper only supports Windows 64 bit. If you want to move Oculus games in other systems, please upgrade to Oculus Game Mover.