Steam after Windows 10 install

Robzere31 · 30 Jul 2015 at 10:37

Hi guys,

Quick question regarding Steam.

I've just installed Windows 10 as a fresh install to my msata drive. I'm using a 240gb Crucial SSD drive for apps & utilities including Steam.
I will use my 3tb storage drive for the games themselves. There is currently 35+ games installed on it.

When I've logged into steam it shows no games currently installed. I've tried to redirect steam to look at the correct folder where games are stored but it comes up with the message "folder needs to be empty"

Any way round this other than deleting the folder & re-downloading everything, something I don't really want to do if I can help it.

Puppetmaster · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:30

Where did you have steam installed before?

Robzere31 · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:32

Puppetmaster said:
Where did you have steam installed before?

It was on my 240GB SSD along with Windows 8.1.

As a thought, if I moved all the files to another folder, then directed steam to the empty folder, then moved the files back to it do you think that would work?

Whoop · 30 Jul 2015 at 11:35

You could try renaming your existing folder, let Steam install something small and then throw your steamapps common folder in to what Steam created.

It may want specific permissions or some other randomness but you can probably go around it.

Uhtred · 30 Jul 2015 at 13:16

from memory you add the game to your library again and you are able to choose a location to install it. If you point it to where the content is stored it will verify it and then add it to your library.

Robzere31 · 30 Jul 2015 at 13:21

Uhtred said:
from memory you add the game to your library again and you are able to choose a location to install it. If you point it to where the content is stored it will verify it and then add it to your library.

Thanks for the replies, I'll give them a go tonight.

Danny091 · 30 Jul 2015 at 13:21

The following instructions are a simple way to move your Steam installation along with your games:

Exit the Steam client application.

Browse to the Steam installation folder for the Steam installation you would like to move (C:\Program Files\Steam by default).

Delete all of the files and folders except the SteamApps folder and Steam.exe

Cut and paste the whole Steam folder to the new location, for example: D:\Games\Steam\

Launch Steam and log into your account.

Can you try that?

So in your other drive do you have a steamapps folder?

If you do move the steam.exe from where you installed it to the other drive (in the same directory as steam apps) delete anything else (so you only have steamapps and steam.exe in the folder) and run steam.exe it will fix itself.

Robzere31 · 30 Jul 2015 at 20:12

Whoop said:
You could try renaming your existing folder, let Steam install something small and then throw your steamapps common folder in to what Steam created.

It may want specific permissions or some other randomness but you can probably go around it.

Thank you, worked a treat !

Brian18741 · 31 Jul 2015 at 01:15

Uhtred said:
from memory you add the game to your library again and you are able to choose a location to install it. If you point it to where the content is stored it will verify it and then add it to your library.

Sorry to be so OT but I just spent like a minute trying to expand the spoiler in your sig :mad:

Robzere31 · 31 Jul 2015 at 01:21

Brian18741 said:
Sorry to be so OT but I just spent like a minute trying to expand the spoiler in your sig

So I wasn't the only one then!

Uhtred · 14 Aug 2015 at 12:01

Brian18741 said:
Sorry to be so OT but I just spent like a minute trying to expand the spoiler in your sig

looks as though the colour scheme on the forums has changed slightly which has made the background slightly different to the sig. Need to tweak it to make it a perfect match again