Steam related grief.

Gunni Parker · 29 Sep 2008 at 18:04

I have currently added an additional Hard drive in my comp and I wanted to copy certain programmes over to my bigger HD as i only previously had a 74gb Raptor installed. I attempted to uninstall Steam and reinstall it on my new Hardrive but this resulted in failure as it states that 'this product canot not be installed to rot directory of any drive' any help on how to reinstall Steam on my bigger drive would be gratefull. Thanks.

marc2003 · 29 Sep 2008 at 18:11

forget installing/uninstalling. just move the whole steam folder across and it will work. no problemo.

zzzJonny · 29 Sep 2008 at 23:04

Well the root of a drive would just be the drive, e.g. X:\
Try installing to X:\Steam

Gunni Parker · 30 Sep 2008 at 12:53

marc2003 said:
forget installing/uninstalling. just move the whole steam folder across and it will work. no problemo.

I heard that manually moving files is a bad bad idea.

gads said:
Well the root of a drive would just be the drive, e.g. X:\
Try installing to X:\Steam

And sorry you have lost me.

marc2003 · 30 Sep 2008 at 13:10

N1ghthawk97 said:
I heard that manually moving files is a bad bad idea.

suit yourself. worked fine for me.

steam doesn't need installing. it just updates itself the first time you try to run it from the new location. you might have to delete the file named "clientregistry.blob" after you've moved it. that is all.

Gunni Parker · 30 Sep 2008 at 13:34

So you have been in a simular situation and it was fine. I will try it if so.

BigBoy · 30 Sep 2008 at 13:38

I have been moving the steam folder around for years with absolutely no problems.

marc2003 · 30 Sep 2008 at 13:43

N1ghthawk97 said:
So you have been in a simular situation and it was fine. I will try it if so.

well i didn't move it because i was running out of space....

i just moved it because i wanted all my games on a separate physical drive to windows to hopefully improve performance a little. also it saves having to re-install the games/download updates on a clean windows install too. it just works straight away.

Pulse · 30 Sep 2008 at 13:49

BigBoy said:
I have been moving the steam folder around for years with absolutely no problems.

This. I've had the same steam folder for 3 years now and it's been moved about over 3 different harddrives and not a problem.

Gunni Parker · 30 Sep 2008 at 21:02

Ok it seems to have worked fine cheers lads.