Need help with 'splitting' HDD

[Pythons]

Hello all,

I recently salvaged an old hdd from my laptop, then removed everything from it completly for my steam library.
However, now i want to install an operating system on it (or maybe two - for 32, 64 bit computers as a 'quick swap' kind of thing) and want to keep my games.

I've heard of a thing that you can do to 'split' the drive into segments, allowing one segment to have one OS, then another having games, then another having a different OS.

I have NO idea how to do this unfortunately!
(Sorry if this didn't make much sense or anything, i'm not good at this stuff!)

 

Thanks for the help!

-Pythons

[Guest]

Go to drive manager. You will need to format thatvdrive first, then you can create new partition and allocate hoe much space you would like

[noobs guid to marsterrace]

Depending on what os you use you might not even need to put the games back on the hdd but you probably will

[mariushm]

You should be able to just copy the Steam files (the folders in [ Steam \ steamapps \ common ] are your downloaded games ) in your new Steam folder and then you may just have to select the games in Steam and click on Download/Install - Steam will detect the already downloaded files and if possible, would check the existing files and download only what's missing (I think it will download at least a few MB from each game)

 

Normally, you should have gone in the Steam menu and there you have Steam > Backup and restore games ...  and from there you can select what games you want to be backed up and then Steam will create nice big files for each game or for multiple games, which you can simply copy to the new computer and restore games using the same menu option.

 

But.. if you say you deleted everything but the steam folder, maybe you can no longer start Steam directly from that hard drive, in which case I suggest trying what I said in the first paragraph.

 

and one more thing... a lot of games these days use steam to manage saved games and preferences (they upload the data to steam cloud)  but some games still keep your saved games in My Documents \ My Games  or  Users \ [user name] \ AppData \  Local | Roaming or other locations like Users \ [ your user name ] \ [ Game Studio] \ [ Game Title]  ... something like that.

You may want to copy those folders as well if you want to keep your preferences and saved games

 

for ex i have

 

"c:\Users\mariush\Documents\Mirrors Edge Catalyst"

"c:\Users\mariush\Documents\Rockstar Games\GTA V"

"c:\Users\mariush\AppData\Roaming\Crystal Dynamics\Rise of the Tomb Raider"

 

This is all Windows 7, on Windows 10 the folder names may be slightly different.