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Today i will be remaking my computer again, the motherboard died so it got delayed for a while(specs in sig). Anyways i was wondering if i can migrate ny steam games to my new pc, ive got a 1tb drive and a 640gb drive at the moment, can i throw all my games on the 640gb drive and then back on the 1tb with the new os or have i got to download everything again.

Just put all the games on the new drive or whatever then go to Steam and tell it to install and point to the directory where it's located. It'll find it.

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Today i will be remaking my computer again, the motherboard died so it got delayed for a while(specs in sig). Anyways i was wondering if i can migrate ny steam games to my new pc, ive got a 1tb drive and a 640gb drive at the moment, can i throw all my games on the 640gb drive and then back on the 1tb with the new os or have i got to download everything again.

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Today i will be remaking my computer again, the motherboard died so it got delayed for a while(specs in sig). Anyways i was wondering if i can migrate ny steam games to my new pc, ive got a 1tb drive and a 640gb drive at the moment, can i throw all my games on the 640gb drive and then back on the 1tb with the new os or have i got to download everything again.

Just put all the games on the new drive or whatever then go to Steam and tell it to install and point to the directory where it's located. It'll find it.

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Copy the steamapps folder to the new Windows install and you're good. Go in Steam and when you try to install any of the games it will see that the folders are already there. 

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Just put all the games on the new drive or whatever then go to Steam and tell it to install and point to the directory where it's located. It'll find it.

Awesome im surprised ive not had to do something like this before. Well time to back up 500gb of games

cpu: intel i5 4670k @ 4.5ghz Ram: G skill ares 2x4gb 2166mhz cl10 Gpu: GTX 680 liquid cooled cpu cooler: Raijintek ereboss Mobo: gigabyte z87x ud5h psu: cm gx650 bronze Case: Zalman Z9 plus


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Cpu: intel i7 4770k @ 4.2ghz Ram: G skill  ripjaws 2x4gb Gpu: nvidia gtx 970 cpu cooler: akasa venom voodoo Mobo: G1.Sniper Z6 Psu: XFX proseries 650w Case: Zalman H1

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