Moving Steam to another HD. Win 7

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I had a quick mooch online and I found that all you need to do is copy the Source apps folder to copy all my Steam games to my spare drive. However, this has not happened. Any Ideas as to why???
 
What do you mean it hasn't happened? You want to backup all your games to a separate drive? If you do want to backup games you can right click them in the steam games list and back them up to the drive that way. Either that or just copy the whole steam folder to be sure. Usually I just re download my games
 
Install steam on the new drive, then copy the steam apps over to the new install of steam. when you run steam they will be there
 
icedbullet said:
What do you mean it hasn't happened? You want to backup all your games to a separate drive? If you do want to backup games you can right click them in the steam games list and back them up to the drive that way. Either that or just copy the whole steam folder to be sure. Usually I just re download my games
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I want all my Steam games on a seperate HD as there are so many. So I want to totally remove them of my primary drive and have them on my spare. Steam does'nt give you the option to install it on any other drive except your main one.
 
don't bother installing it. just make sure it's not running and then move the whole steam folder. when complete, just run steam.exe from inside the new location and it will update itself fine. simple. :)
 
Just close steam then move the whole steam dir to the new drive / folder and double click steam.exe

I never download the steam installer, I just do it this way
 
bledd. said:
Just close steam then move the whole steam dir to the new drive / folder and double click steam.exe

I never download the steam installer, I just do it this way
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Cool but I still can't fine the Steam.exe! Where is it? I have looked through all of the Steam folder.
 
I;ve had Steam and my games in general on a separate drive to my windows drive (in case it buggers up and I have to wipe the windows drive). When I've reformatted I've done one of two things

1. Do a fresh install of steam, then replaced the newly installed Steam folder with the old one (deleting the NEW folder first). sometimes steam itself;s updates but that's about it,

2. do a new install of steam directly over the old one , this works to but sometimes its has to redownload some games for some reason. But i would not do this tbh as you run the risk if old and new files getting into fights with each other.


I've not done 1 or 2 since the new Steam so it might react diffidently now, regardless I've not had to do a full re-download of everything in steam since just before Half Life 2 ep1 lol.

hope this helps.
 
Gunni Parker said:
Cool but I still can't fine the Steam.exe! Where is it? I have looked through all of the Steam folder.
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You probably have file extentions turned off in explorer..

chuck it into view, details mode and the one called 'Steam' that is an application.
 
Gunni Parker said:
I want all my Steam games on a seperate HD as there are so many. So I want to totally remove them of my primary drive and have them on my spare. Steam does'nt give you the option to install it on any other drive except your main one.
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you can install on a seperate drive when first installing mines on a seperate drive so is my sons just change where you want it to go like anything you install
 
Heres the steam.exe file location

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Ha ha ha ha, I know! I was looking for a file directly called that! lol Plus its only basic if you know what your doing. I just play games. ;-) Thanks fella's.
 
I have done everything the Steam forum suggested, and it has copied the folder across! However, all my games have disapeared and it seems to have reinstalled its self in the C drive too! I will just have to download a game and see where it goes.
 
If you copied the files they will still be in their original location too. Delete the stuff on C if you are positive you have moved the entirety of the folder across to your new HD.

And make sure if you are using a shortcut it doesnt link back to the C install.
 
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