Help With Steam Please?

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Hey guys,

Set up my new computer on Monday; primary drive is my 64Gb SSD, and 500Gb HDD for general storage. Now, I've installed Windows and Steam on the SSD, but my games are taking up a rather large chunk of the drive... And by that, I mean I've got 4Gb left :/

Is it possible to install/move steam games between drives/partitions, or does it have to be on the drive you installed Steam on?

Surely there must be a way around this? :(
 
as far as im aware it stays on your c drive.

ive just had this problem and went to a 1tb just to make sure i didnt run out of room.

someone on here might tell you different as to were you can put your steam folder.
 
As far as i know, the games themselves have to stay in the steam folder..

The steam folder itself can go anywhere you like though, so no reason you couldnt move it all over onto your 500GB..
 
Just copy your entire steam folder to your other drive, run steam again, it will probably say that you need to install the steam service, say yet to it and there you go all sorted.
 
i believe you can use mklink (cmd line program), not entirely sure of the input.

you could alse just copy the entire steam folder, I think
 
Disjunto said:
i believe you can use mklink (cmd line program), not entirely sure of the input.
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You certainly can (with the /d switch). I've used it on a couple of Steam games, with my normal Steam folder on my HDD, and the game I want on the SDD linked with mklink.
 
Thanks for the advice guys, but a bit confused... I copied the whole steam folder from 'My Programs' on C drive (SSD) to E Drive (HDD). I logged out and closed steam, then clicked on the steam icon on E drive, and it boots up and everything fine, but doesn't give me any sort of message about reinstalling Steam...

I'd guess that it was going from C drive for some reason :/ Hulp? :(
 
Well if it doesn't ask you anything and loads up fine and your games work then everything should be ok.
 
Sounds fine, unless you managed to just create a load of shortcutss (can't imagine so, unless it copied like 50GB in 30 seconds) then it should be running off of E: if that's where you're running the exe from.

It will likely only want an update/reinstall prompt if you move OS or something.
 
Reza86 said:
Well if it doesn't ask you anything and loads up fine and your games work then everything should be ok.
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Kenai said:
Sounds fine, unless you managed to just create a load of shortcutss (can't imagine so, unless it copied like 50GB in 30 seconds) then it should be running off of E: if that's where you're running the exe from.

It will likely only want an update/reinstall prompt if you move OS or something.
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Nope, it was a 30Gb transfer and took about 6 minutes. It seems to be alright, but what I thought was to back-up all the games (via Steam Backup) to the HDD, then uninstall and I have copies if it doesn't work after I clear the SSD :)
 
Well, Steam is entirely portable, i've moved it between 2 different drives and 3 different operating system installs and the most its ever wanted to do was a quick update and then everything ran fine.

It should be ok.
 
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Kenai said:
Well, Steam is entirely portable, i've moved it between 2 different drives and 3 different operating system installs and the most its ever wanted to do was a quick update and then everything ran fine.

It should be ok.
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Hm, that is good. I assumed it would be governed by registry settings and not as flexable as you say!
 
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