Hi, Im going to be using my new SSD as my main drive but don't want to clone my old drive. So want to move steam and all my games over to my new drive. I've watched countless videos and tutorials on "steam mover" but all of them show how to move an individual game or games to any old random location on the new drive. I don't want to do this. I want to literally move steam and everything in it over. So it is like it has always been on the new drive. How do I do this?
Using steam mover to move ALL of steam?
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If this is going to be on a clean install of windows then just copy the entire steam folder and run steam.exe from inside the new folder when you're done. It will prompt for admin rights to install itself properly and that's it.
Lots of games will do their own little setup routines the first time you launch them. Some may even need the cache revalidating to work.
edit: Just be aware some games may leave your saves/configs scattered all over your old drive. Most sensible ones will use your Documents folder but others won't.
Lots of games will do their own little setup routines the first time you launch them. Some may even need the cache revalidating to work.
edit: Just be aware some games may leave your saves/configs scattered all over your old drive. Most sensible ones will use your Documents folder but others won't.
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Wow that's perfect! sounds so easy. I like it. Yes its a clean win 10 install.
You quoted my edit but don't seem to have understood. You will have to copy over save files manually. Copying your entire documents folder will work for the majority of games but some are more sneaky. For example, I have GTA IV (retail DVD, not steam) and the save files are hidden inside C:\Users\marc\AppData\Local\Rockstar Games. These need to copied to the corresponding location on your new drive to keep all your progress. GTA V is a bit more sensible and uses the documents folder.
Look inside your documents folder and you should find a whole load of game related folders. In mine, only My Games (Crysis) and Square Enix (Just Cause 2) are from my steam library.
You really need to make sure you have everything saved/backed up before zapping the old drive for re-use.
Look inside your documents folder and you should find a whole load of game related folders. In mine, only My Games (Crysis) and Square Enix (Just Cause 2) are from my steam library.
You really need to make sure you have everything saved/backed up before zapping the old drive for re-use.
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You quoted my edit but don't seem to have understood. You will have to copy over save files manually. Copying your entire documents folder will work for the majority of games but some are more sneaky. For example, I have GTA IV (retail DVD, not steam) and the save files are hidden inside C:\Users\marc\AppData\Local\Rockstar Games. These need to copied to the corresponding location on your new drive to keep all your progress. GTA V is a bit more sensible and uses the documents folder.
Look inside your documents folder and you should find a whole load of game related folders. In mine, only My Games (Crysis) and Square Enix (Just Cause 2) are from my steam library.
You really need to make sure you have everything saved/backed up before zapping the old drive for re-use.
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Thanks both. Don't worry I'm not zapping the old drive. It will be staying exactly the way it is and will be my "windows 7 pc" that I can boot to if I want to. Windows 10 is going on the new ssd and will be my "new pc" in its entirety. As I store all videos/photos externally then 1tb ssd should be plenty to hold my full PC as it were.