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Just set up my hard drive how do i move my games to it?

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I assume you are using steam?
This link should be helpful: https://www.howtogeek.com/269515/how-to-move-a-steam-game-to-another-drive-without-re-downloading-it/

Essentially, you need to create a new steam library on the second drive, which you can find in the steam settings, and tell each game to transfer to the new drive.

 

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I just want to move all my games from my SSD over to my new hard drive how can i do it when i try to just drop the icon into the new drive it starts to copy it i just want to move it all over

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I assume you are using steam?
This link should be helpful: https://www.howtogeek.com/269515/how-to-move-a-steam-game-to-another-drive-without-re-downloading-it/

Essentially, you need to create a new steam library on the second drive, which you can find in the steam settings, and tell each game to transfer to the new drive.

 

Does that help? 

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10 minutes ago, FakeNSA said:

I assume you are using steam?
This link should be helpful: https://www.howtogeek.com/269515/how-to-move-a-steam-game-to-another-drive-without-re-downloading-it/

Essentially, you need to create a new steam library on the second drive, which you can find in the steam settings, and tell each game to transfer to the new drive.

 

Does that help?

yes thank you so much!!!

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2 minutes ago, Gamingisamust said:

yes thank you so much!!!

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