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Lothrean
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I have my games installed on my 1TB Seagate Hard Drive most of them are from Steam and some of them are not so my question is if i took out my hard drive and put it into another gaming PC can i play them wihtout re-downloading them? i don't want to re-download everything because i have a limited GBs. 
this is very important to me because i pay for GBs.

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Yes, but is Windows on that drive? If yes, then you have to redownload

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Just now, Lothrean said:

Yes, but it's in a separate Local Disk, Why is it a problem?

If windows is installed on that drive and you transplant it you'll spend 2 hours trying to fix driver conflicts until you can play the game

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2 minutes ago, JDE said:

Yes, but is Windows on that drive? If yes, then you have to redownload

Can i move the downloaded game folders into on a USB Flash or something is there any other way to transfer them without having to download them again?

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1 minute ago, Lothrean said:

Can i move the downloaded game folders into on a USB Flash or something is there any other way to transfer them without having to download them again?

If it's like a thunderbolt drive sure,otherwise you might be sitting around a while waiting for it to transfer

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21 minutes ago, Lothrean said:

Can i move the downloaded game folders into on a USB Flash or something is there any other way to transfer them without having to download them again?

For example if you'd like to transfer from Letter drive C to Letter drive F. C:/Program files X86/Steam/Steamapps/Common then copy the games you'd like into the same path for letter drive F. (Program files X86/steam/steamapps/common./Wherever your library is located on drive F: .) This applies for USBs too, just find the right path in each computer and copy the files over. 

 

 

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15 minutes ago, Lothrean said:

Can i move the downloaded game folders into on a USB Flash or something is there any other way to transfer them without having to download them again?

It's not really good to move programs or OSes across drives

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