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IIRC you can just copy the SteamApps folder to the hard drive, link Steam to "download" the games from there, then they'll be there without any downloading.

Awesome. Thanks. This'll save a ton of time.

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Ok, I'm finally building my new Bad A** gaming rig this weekend. I've gone with an ssd boot drive and a WD black for everything else. I have my old PC's HDD that is still good and want to salvage my Steam Library, pics and music off of it before I format it to use as a third (dump) drive in my new system. I've backed up my pics and music to external storage so this is mainly about my Steam library. My cable internet plan has a 400 GB cap and I'm worried that if I try and download all the games I/we in my house usually play, that'll I'll eat up my allowance and have to wait a couple weeks for it to reset. I figured that if I hook my old HDD up, I could just move the steam library to my new HDD and that would save some time. Any thoughts? Will I have issues since there is an OS on the old drive? Should I just bite the bullet and format the drive now to avoid headaches?

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yes you can. just coppy the steam library into new steam library. and check intergrated data and it should just auto show in your library that all your games are installed.

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IIRC you can just copy the SteamApps folder to the hard drive, link Steam to "download" the games from there, then they'll be there without any downloading.

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Ok, I'm finally building my new Bad A** gaming rig this weekend. I've gone with an ssd boot drive and a WD black for everything else. I have my old PC's HDD that is still good and want to salvage my Steam Library, pics and music off of it before I format it to use as a third (dump) drive in my new system. I've backed up my pics and music to external storage so this is mainly about my Steam library. My cable internet plan has a 400 GB cap and I'm worried that if I try and download all the games I/we in my house usually play, that'll I'll eat up my allowance and have to wait a couple weeks for it to reset. I figured that if I hook my old HDD up, I could just move the steam library to my new HDD and that would save some time. Any thoughts? Will I have issues since there is an OS on the old drive? Should I just bite the bullet and format the drive now to avoid headaches?

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IIRC you can just copy the SteamApps folder to the hard drive, link Steam to "download" the games from there, then they'll be there without any downloading.

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IIRC you can just copy the SteamApps folder to the hard drive, link Steam to "download" the games from there, then they'll be there without any downloading.

Last time I did this I just had to restart and it found all the games on a different HDD just like I intended so the second to last part may be unnecessary.

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elaborate ....

 

Copy SteamApps folder to HDD.

Plug HDD into new computer.

Add to steam folders.

 

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Click steam library folders.

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Choose Directory and hit "select"

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IIRC you can just copy the SteamApps folder to the hard drive, link Steam to "download" the games from there, then they'll be there without any downloading.

Awesome. Thanks. This'll save a ton of time.

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Find a new internet provider. That is simply unacceptable. I have no data cap on desktop and I couldn't live without it.

Really wish I could. Our area has 2 providers. One is CableOne that offers my current 100MBs download/5MBs upload with a 400GB cap. The other is ATT&T that offer a 12MBs U-Verse DSL plan with a 300GB cap. We have a regional cellular provider, C-Spire Wireless, that is offering Fiber to the Home service across the state (Mississippi) that costs just $80 a month for 1GBs Down/Up with no data cap. Was offered last year to a select number of cities throughout the state. Ours was one of them. All we had to do was get a certain percentage of residents to pre-register for the service at a non-refundable $10 per household. Yeah, out of 9 initial city offerings, ours was the only one that didn't meet the quota. Sucks so bad.

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