Moving Steam to another HD. Win 7

[Gunni Parker]

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.

I still don't get it, no matter what I do! Steam still manages to install its self on my C drive. How do I find out whether its making a link back to my C: drive.

 

[bledd]

Just do what I said, ignore the steam thread.

Close steam, then move it to another drive and run the Steam.exe from the new directory.

No need to run the steam installer

 

[gord]

Just do what I said, ignore the steam thread.

Close steam, then move it to another drive and run the Steam.exe from the new directory.

No need to run the steam installer

From what I've read I get the impression he has Steam duplicated in multiple locations, which is why we are having such a hard time.

Can you just copy your steam folder to an external device. Uninstall everything to do with steam and delete all the folders everywhere. Then reinstall on the device you want to install to. I am positive the steam installer lets you specify a drive.. and thats where you copy the steam apps folder back to so you have your game files.

That said, where does steam store its game saves?

edit: http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18140484

 

[Gunni Parker]

Just do what I said, ignore the steam thread.

Close steam, then move it to another drive and run the Steam.exe from the new directory.

No need to run the steam installer

Tried that mate, this is my error!



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So i clicked cancel to carry on. I found out that the link on my desktop must have been the installer, as every time I ran it it started that stupid updating your files business. So! I deleted link and copied the one out of my steam folder as you suggested. Ran that and it was fine. There was nothing in C: and my games where still there. All was good untill I done a restart and Steam would run, so I ended the tast. Ran Steam again and it started with the that stupid updating files business. So I let it run it course, and then I noticed that it started to not only reinstall files in my C: but on the desktop as well! Whats going on? lol

 

[bledd]

Can't read what that says.

Remove all traces from any other drive, then right click Steam.exe and run as admin

 

[Gunni Parker]

Can't read what that says.

Remove all traces from any other drive, then right click Steam.exe and run as admin

Ok man, that seems to have worked. I deleted all except in my D: and then I ran as administrator. I link the Steam.exe to my task bar and when I click on that it seems to work. Hopefully it will stay that way. Thanks a lot.

 

[bledd]

No problem

 

[Devrij]

Okay, because I just decided this would be a good idea for me too, let me just get this straight.

1. Copy entire steam directory (eg, C:\program files (x86)\steam) onto desired HDD
2. delete C:\Program files (x86)\Steam
3. Run D:\Steam\Steam.exe as admin

If there's anything I've missed or misinterpreted let me know so I don't have to download 100Gb of games! Cheers!

 

[bledd]

that's what I do mate, never had a problem.

Some saved games are stored in My Documents or whereever for some game, so if you format C, then a small ammount of downloading will be needed

 

[Devrij]

Sweet, will do this then. Figured my new F1 1TB is more suited for gigantor game files than my smaller F3. Will presumably make OS more responsive when tabbing out of games?

 

[me227]

Okay, because I just decided this would be a good idea for me too, let me just get this straight.

1. Copy entire steam directory (eg, C:\program files (x86)\steam) onto desired HDD
2. delete C:\Program files (x86)\Steam
3. Run D:\Steam\Steam.exe as admin

If there's anything I've missed or misinterpreted let me know so I don't have to download 100Gb of games! Cheers!

No need to copy it then delete the original files. Just move the files.