Is there a way to migrate/change a whole drive path?

[DeathStalker77]

Here's what happened. I had a drive die (100%) on me. I got a replacement drive and was able to DL most of what I had lost - the problem? When I installed the new drive, I failed to notice that it wasn't mapped to the correct LETTER. It should have be L but it was F. I already have ha F drive, and it's too big to copy all the contents onto the new drive.

Is there a way to make qB recognize all the paths on this new drive as L - without having to get another drive to copy them to?

Thanks!!!

--- DS

[qBittUser]

I would shutdown PC and change drive cables between your current F and L, then later on OS will automatically set your drive letters in the correct order.

Theoretically your OS and some drive partition editing programs can help change drive letters, but better to switch cables instead to avoid more issues.

If really like spending more time and taking risks with complex things, then Google Search does show other users have asked before how to edit multiple qBit resume files.

https://www.reddit.com/r/qBittorrent/comments/t025e4/is_there_any_way_to_edit_fastresume_files_without/

https://gist.github.com/Roardom/d3b188a3e4be7d9da4ce9a2239878605

https://github.com/jslay88/qbt_migrate

https://crates.io/crates/qbfrt

I have no experience if anything works as expected or if there's any other better methods, so definitely do backup your qBit BT_Backup folder to easily revert any unexpected changes.

Default location where qBit saves important things is mentioned in Wiki:
https://github.com/qbittorrent/qBittorrent/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#where-does-qbittorrent-save-its-settings

I got a replacement drive

Do consider extra drive to backup things to avoid redownloading again whenever another drive fails.

I hope you have reliable drives with long warranty that uses CMR instead of SMR and that works longer than upto Power-On Hours: 2400 ~100 days if running 24/7. So do consider avoiding some cheap unreliable Seagate Barracuda Desktop drives, unless official product info has mentioned it's a reliable drive with CMR and a longer lifespan.