Steam Installation drive?

SeraphX · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:29

hey guys, quick question,

i keep my main steam folder on a 250Gb Boot drive and given the recent sales it's getting very fat, i have a 1Tb media drive that i want to move it to,

is it just a case of uninstalling the games/ backing up the games and re-installing steam on the 1Tb?

Deadbeat · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:30

There's a copy & paste technique which means you don't have to reinstall any of your games, but I forget what it is. Hope I helped.

Frapple · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:32

Here's how I did it for Metro 2033/Crysis/etc.

In this example we'll use Torchlight, I'll assume you haven't got Steam installed & are running Windows 7.

Install steam to biggest drive (F:\Program Files\Steam)
Download Torchlight
Create the '\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common' folders on your SSD.
Move the Torhclight folder to the new common folder on C:\

Now to create the link

Open up cmd
Use cd & dir /x to change directory to F:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common
Now type:

Code:

mklink /D torchlight "C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common"

This will create a link object in F:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common (looks like a folder shortcut icon) called 'torchlight'. This will cause Steam/Anti-virus/the pope to get 'redirected' to the torchlight folder on the SSD.

Any trouble, grab me on Steam.

Anyone else, feel free to re-post this anywhere.

Armitage Shanks · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:33

Its quite easy. The official way Check this out

SeraphX · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:42

thanks guys

got it moving now

orderoftheflame · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:48

Proper way nothing. Ctrl X + Ctrl V has always worked for me.

Robert1986 · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:51

orderoftheflame said:
Proper way nothing. Ctrl X + Ctrl V has always worked for me.

so simple its stupid.

dirtydog · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:52

Copy the entire Valve folder to whatever disk you want, and run steam.exe... nothing else is needed.

Kenai · 1 Dec 2010 at 17:55

dirtydog said:
Copy the entire Valve folder to whatever disk you want, and run steam.exe... nothing else is needed.

This, doing anything more is just wasting your time.

The mklink method is useful if you want to locate certain games on an SSD for faster loads but that's about it.