Moving Portal 2 to SSD?

LiamJ · 2 May 2011 at 16:40

Hey guys.

I have Steam installed on my Data drive, but I want to put Portal 2 on my SSD as I'm playing it quite a bit at the moment.

I know it is possible through a command, but I did a quick google and couldn't find how to do it.

All help is appreciated.

Garee · 2 May 2011 at 16:40

Steam Mover

Fonz-Valo · 2 May 2011 at 18:03

Garee said:
Steam Mover

+1 to this

I've moved Portal 2 and a couple of other steamapps to my SSD using this and it was quick and easy to do it, the load speed difference on the SSD is unbelievable!

Tomtom3989 · 2 May 2011 at 18:06

if you don't want to use an app, just use mklink in windows command

Evilsod · 2 May 2011 at 18:14

Game Save Manager > All other options.

valkia · 2 May 2011 at 18:19

Cool program. Thanks

Supernaut91 · 2 May 2011 at 20:28

Got Portal 2 on my SSD , it is incredibly quick compared to a mechanical hard disk drive

HungryHippos · 2 May 2011 at 20:48

All I do is use the mklink /j command to move game installs from Steam to another drive.

1. Find your steam game folders - mine is at C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common

2. Move one of the folders to another drive. I normally just cut and paste.

3. From CMD prompt run:

mklink /j "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\oldfoldername" "D:\Steam\oldfoldername"

This runs on the principal of mklink /j "Source Folder" "Target Folder"

4. This will create a shortcut/junction in the steam folder that takes you to the new location.

LiamJ · 2 May 2011 at 22:50

Thanks guys, program worked great.