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....or!!!!

 

you can move the entire SteamApps folder instead so that you'll end up keeping the main program on your system drive.

 

I have mine setup that way.

 

What you do is - in the program main window, click the "Steam" drop down menu from the top left corner then click "Settings"

Now, go to the "Downloads" then in that menu, click "STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS" from the menu that pops up you can set in which drive you have your games installed on.

 

Once, it is setup, copy your entire SteamApps folder from your its previous location and paste it in that new folder you've setup. Restart Steam. That's it.

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Hello everyone,

 

Alright, so my question is:

 

I have purchased a 1TB hard drive on black friday, and I inted to use this as my drive for only my steam games.  I currently have a samsung 840 pro SSD for my OS, and a 1TB seagate baracudda for everything else.  I only have 200 gb left on that drive so I will use a dedicated steam drive. Now, is it best to just grab the steam folder and drag it onto the fresh drive, or unistall all my games then reinstall on the new drive

 

Thank you ahead of time! i will follow the topic for replies

 

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Hello everyone,

 

Alright, so my question is:

 

I have purchased a 1TB hard drive on black friday, and I inted to use this as my drive for only my steam games.  I currently have a samsung 840 pro SSD for my OS, and a 1TB seagate baracudda for everything else.  I only have 200 gb left on that drive so I will use a dedicated steam drive. Now, is it best to just grab the steam folder and drag it onto the fresh drive, or unistall all my games then reinstall on the new drive

 

Thank you ahead of time! i will follow the topic for replies

 

Lazz45

drag and drop the folder and go to steam settings and add the folder on the new hard drive to the list of folders to look for games :)

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drag and drop the folder and go to steam settings and add the folder on the new hard drive to the list of folders to look for games :)

So just click and drag one night before i sleep and let that transfer over night?

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Hello everyone,

 

Alright, so my question is:

 

I have purchased a 1TB hard drive on black friday, and I inted to use this as my drive for only my steam games.  I currently have a samsung 840 pro SSD for my OS, and a 1TB seagate baracudda for everything else.  I only have 200 gb left on that drive so I will use a dedicated steam drive. Now, is it best to just grab the steam folder and drag it onto the fresh drive, or unistall all my games then reinstall on the new drive

 

Thank you ahead of time! i will follow the topic for replies

 

Lazz45

Go into Steam Settings and add a Steam directory to the new drive, then you should be able to simply cut+paste the Steam folder from the existing drive over to the new drive and Steam should automatically recognize the new game locations and adjust accordingly.

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....or!!!!

 

you can move the entire SteamApps folder instead so that you'll end up keeping the main program on your system drive.

 

I have mine setup that way.

 

What you do is - in the program main window, click the "Steam" drop down menu from the top left corner then click "Settings"

Now, go to the "Downloads" then in that menu, click "STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS" from the menu that pops up you can set in which drive you have your games installed on.

 

Once, it is setup, copy your entire SteamApps folder from your its previous location and paste it in that new folder you've setup. Restart Steam. That's it.

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....or!!!!

 

you can move the entire SteamApps folder instead so that you'll end up keeping the main program on your system drive.

 

I have mine setup that way.

 

What you do is - in the program main window, click the "Steam" drop down menu from the top left corner then click "Settings"

Now, go to the "Downloads" then in that menu, click "STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS" from the menu that pops up you can set in which drive you have your games installed on.

 

Once, it is setup, copy your entire SteamApps folder from your its previous location and paste it in that new folder you've setup. Restart Steam. That's it.

that's what i did :)

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Hey there Lazz45,
 
@YoloSwag gave you some excellent advice so I'd try that. The rest of the guys also gave good suggestions. It's up to you to decide if you'd like to keep your main app on the system drive or move that too.
One small note from me: Since you will be moving quite large amounts of data I would try to do that with a application instead of a simple copy/paste tool. A copying application can recover from an error and restart the whole process while the copy/paste function can easily miss something or fail while you are not on the computer. :)
 
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Hey there Lazz45,
 
@YoloSwag gave you some excellent advice so I'd try that. The rest of the guys also gave good suggestions. It's up to you to decide if you'd like to keep your main app on the system drive or move that too.
One small note from me: Since you will be moving quite large amounts of data I would try to do that with a application instead of a simple copy/paste tool. A copying application can recover from an error and restart the whole process while the copy/paste function can easily miss something or fail while you are not on the computer. :)
 
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What copying applications do you recommend?

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As a Western Digital representative I can't really recommend other tools so you should look for one on the internet or see if anyone here recommends one. I'm sure if you go quickly over some reviews and comments you can find a good one. :)
 
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