I have recently upgraded to Windows 10 - well actually I have created a dual boot system so I still have Windows 7 with everything installed and Windows 10 as a clean install and I am gradually installing things on it. The plan is to migrate completely to Windows 10 once I am happy that I have everything I need working.

That brings me to Band-in-a-Box which is by far the largest re-install that I will have to do (100 Gigabytes or so). In December 2014 I purchased BIAB 2015 EverythingPAK and in December 2015 updated it with BIAB 2016 PlusPAK. I still have all the installation files but I recall the EverythingPAK install being a long process and also fraught with problems which were gradually fixed by patches and various other changes.

So, in order to

i). Minimise the re-install effort,
ii). Avoid duplication e.g. I already have full versions Sampletank 3 and Amplitube 4 installed on Windows 10 and
iii). Avoid installing things that I never use (a lot of the video tutorials and other filler that came with the EverythingPAK).

I am hoping to just install BIAB 2016 PlusPAK and copy any of the missing content from the 2015 EverythingPAK (RTs, MIDI styles and ??) from the existing \bb folder and all of its sub-folders to the Windows 10 partition. I would normally avoid such practice but I am sure that I have read here before that BIAB installs almost everything into the \bb folder to make it easy to produce the USB hard drive version. I know that the included versions of Sampletank and Amplitube go elsewhere but I am planning to persuade BIAB to use ST3 and AT4.

So, has anyone out there in BIAB-land already done this or something similar and can advise whether this will work or if there is anything else I need to take account of?

Many thanks,
Rec

BIAB 2022 UltraPAK, CbB, Studio One 5 Pro, Fender USA Tele, Harley Benton Fusion & others.