Quickest way to transfer steam games to new pc?

Tune · 9 Oct 2011 at 03:14

http://gyazo.com/e658bf1573f4995cfdd1d786993ce761

Not looking good atm :/ What is the quickest way?

Overslop · 9 Oct 2011 at 03:57

Transfer the old hard drive to the new PC.

Mailman86 · 9 Oct 2011 at 04:05

Or if you plan to use the same HDD, leaving a small partition with just your games and then transfering after you have installed Windows in a larger partition on the same drive should be quicker than what you are doing now.

Freddie1980 · 9 Oct 2011 at 08:30

^ Those are you best bets, transferring HDD to HDD over SATA you will get rates of 140 Mb's per second.

I take it your trying to back up all your steam folder to USB2 external hard drive? For future reference you really ought to invest in ESATA. Over ESATA you can transfer 5Gb every minute so that would take about half an hour to back up your whole steam folder. Why ESATA? ESATA is a lot faster for copying over lots of smaller files then USB3.

dreigns · 9 Oct 2011 at 08:49

As some have said just rip out the old hard drive plug it in to your new PC and copy the files over its what I do for any large amount of data I need to do

and very easy to do as well all you need are the leads them selfs and the harddrive.

Tune · 9 Oct 2011 at 14:28

Freddie1980 said:
^ Those are you best bets, transferring HDD to HDD over SATA you will get rates of 140 Mb's per second.

I take it your trying to back up all your steam folder to USB2 external hard drive? For future reference you really ought to invest in ESATA. Over ESATA you can transfer 5Gb every minute so that would take about half an hour to back up your whole steam folder. Why ESATA? ESATA is a lot faster for copying over lots of smaller files then USB3.

Alright thanks ill have a look for one