thinking of another 250 Samsung EVO, can I transfer all my games (steam drive) to new SSD

TonyTurbo78 · 16 Jul 2014 at 11:11

Hi guys.

Here is the situation. I have one Samsung 250GB EVO SSD currently which I use solely for my OS and also have BF4 installed on it. I have 3 meaty HDDs, one I use for games only and has my Steam Library on it. Another for my own media like picures, music, movies and the third drive I use for all my downloads.

I see the 250GB samsung EVO is on offer today and my question relates specifically to this new drive and my game drive on HDD. Can I purchase this SSD and move the whole of my contents from my HDD to my SSD including all the Steam Library? will all my games function properly by just copying and pasting?

wazza300 · 16 Jul 2014 at 11:22

theres steam mover program i think

snips86x · 16 Jul 2014 at 11:23

Why not backup the game cache and re-install from that device or simply clone it.

dk345 · 16 Jul 2014 at 11:24

Steam mover is useful when you have just a few games in your library on an SSD, but in this case I believe it's much simpler.

Seeing as you're wanting to move ALL of your games and your ENTIRE steam library, you can literally just cut and paste the steam files from Program Files/Steam to wherever you want them (in this case your new SSD).

That is, assuming I'm right, that you want to move everything to the SSD, rather than select games.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

TonyTurbo78 · 16 Jul 2014 at 11:53

yes I want to move everything from my HDD Game drive which includes 10 or so games installed from disc and also 20 or so Steam games, to a new SSD. Was just wondering if it would be a simple case of copying everything from the HDD and pasting it straight to the new SSD.

dk345 · 16 Jul 2014 at 19:45

TonyTurbo78 said:
yes I want to move everything from my HDD Game drive which includes 10 or so games installed from disc and also 20 or so Steam games, to a new SSD. Was just wondering if it would be a simple case of copying everything from the HDD and pasting it straight to the new SSD.

Well, I haven't done it myself, but if the link in my previous post is anything to go by it should be as easy as that.

You just need to delete some steam directories which it'll rebuild automatically in the new location.

welshdragon · 16 Jul 2014 at 21:18

TonyTurbo78 said:
yes I want to move everything from my HDD Game drive which includes 10 or so games installed from disc and also 20 or so Steam games, to a new SSD. Was just wondering if it would be a simple case of copying everything from the HDD and pasting it straight to the new SSD.

Clone the drive over

user_name · 17 Jul 2014 at 12:17

TonyTurbo78 said:
yes I want to move everything from my HDD Game drive which includes 10 or so games installed from disc and also 20 or so Steam games, to a new SSD. Was just wondering if it would be a simple case of copying everything from the HDD and pasting it straight to the new SSD.

pretty much , make the new steam folder first on the new drive , close steam , copy files across then re-verify them and it should pick them up.

Clav · 17 Jul 2014 at 13:47

You can literally copy / paste everything from one to the other. I have done this many times.

queeg · 18 Jul 2014 at 21:17

best way is to clone it use macrium reflect another forum user has posted a how to thread in here

Ch3m1c4L · 22 Jul 2014 at 20:03

copy paste, and make sure to change the driver letter to be the HDD one, then, as long as you havent run it while copying, it shouldnt even notice.

Or just clone it, or back up the disk, then restore it to the ssd

demon8991 · 22 Jul 2014 at 23:12

Clav said:
You can literally copy / paste everything from one to the other. I have done this many times.

Me too, really easy.

Steam will just check each of your games to make sure nothing is missing then you are good to go.