Installing FFXI from an external hard drive?

[SilentGrief]

I have FFXI installed on my PC and I would like to install it on my laptop.
Is there any way to just copy my Playonline folder from my PC to my laptop without having to go through all the updates again?
And if it is possible, do I have to install the game first?

[bebeci]

You'll be missing all your reg keys and such.
You can install everything on your laptop, copy all your PC files, then 'Play'. Which will probably start a file check.

Saves you the effort of downloading files.

[Robert]

install POL, copy and paste your entire squeenix folder into the directory, run the reg, put the bat in your squeenix folder and run it, then you only need a file check, don't have to install at all. edit the reg below for whatever version of POL you have, directory, drive, etc

Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\InstallFolder]
"0002"="C:\\Program Files\\PlayOnline\\SquareEnix\\TetraMaster"
"1000"="C:\\Program Files\\PlayOnline\\SquareEnix\\PlayOnlineViewer"
"0001"="C:\\Program Files\\PlayOnline\\SquareEnix\\FINAL FANTASY XI\\"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\Interface]
"0002"="01ecd222"
"1000"="01ecd210"
"0001"="0200b098"

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\FinalFantasyXI]
"bFirst"=hex:00
"0001"=dword:00000280
"0002"=dword:000001e0
"0021"=dword:00000001
"0000"=dword:00000000
"0003"=dword:00000200
"0004"=dword:00000200
"0007"=dword:00000001
"0011"=dword:00000002
"0017"=dword:00000000
"0018"=dword:00000002
"0019"=dword:00000001
"0020"=dword:00000001
"0022"=dword:00000000
"0023"=dword:00000000
"0024"=dword:00000000
"0028"=dword:00000000
"0029"=dword:0000000c
"0030"=dword:00000000
"0031"=dword:3bc49ba6
"0032"=dword:00000000
"0033"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer]
"FirstBootPlayMovie"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer\Settings]
"ResetSettings"=dword:00000000
"PlayOpeningMovie"=dword:00000001
"FullScreen"=dword:00000000
"PlayAudio"=dword:00000000
"UseGameController"=dword:00000000
"WindowX"=dword:00000174
"WindowY"=dword:000001a9
"WindowW"=dword:0000027e
"WindowH"=dword:000001df

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer\Settings\Controller]
"AnchorUp"=dword:00000030
"AnchorRight"=dword:00000032
"AnchorLeft"=dword:00000036
"AnchorDown"=dword:00000034
"ChrCsrNext"=dword:00000007
"ChrCsrPrev"=dword:00000006
"PageNext"=dword:00000005
"PagePrev"=dword:00000004
"Navi"=dword:00000003
"Menu"=dword:00000000
"Ok"=dword:00000001
"Cancel"=dword:00000002
"ID"=dword:00000000

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer\SystemInfo]

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\PlayOnlineViewer\SystemInfo\QCheck]
"LastMeasurementTime"=hex:0f,e1,69,46,00,00,00,00

[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\PlayOnlineUS\SquareEnix\TetraMaster]
"LOADDIR"="C:\\Program Files\\PlayOnline\\SquareEnix/TetraMaster/"

^in notepad and make it a .reg file

FOR /R %%G IN (*.dll) DO regsvr32 /s "%%G"

^in notepad and make it a .bat

[diemos]

Or..

Regedit > CTRL+F > PlayOnlineUS > Export > Save as w/e

Copy C:\Program Files\PlayOnline to your external

Open up your registry file that you saved with notepad, then just change the path to match your external.

Reformat, install registry keys, install windower, ???, profit.