Where to put Steam folder?

FlyingFish · 10 Sep 2011 at 19:40

Hi, Ive just got myself a new gaming laptop from Overclockers, and I'm not sure where to put my backed up Steam folder

Its a MSI GX660R which has two 500Gb HDD's in a RAID 0 configuration

My Computer looks like this:

OS_Install (C): 515GB free of 552GB
Data (D):358GB free of 368GB

Now I know nothing about RAID apart from a quick 10 mins read on wiki!!

So where do I copy my Steam folder too, from my old laptop?

Thanks
Mick

FlyingFish · 10 Sep 2011 at 19:55

Nothing to see move along, just read on notebookreview forum I can put it anywhere, the raid thing will look after itself..Doh

Mick

CaptainRAVE · 10 Sep 2011 at 19:56

I don't even bother backing it up, just my saves. Can all be downloaded again anyway.

Kenai · 10 Sep 2011 at 20:08

Stick it on the non OS partition and then if you ever need reinstall, you don't need to backup or reinstall Steam afterwards.

My Steam install has seen three different OS installs like this, including a move from XP to 7.

Keyser Soze · 10 Sep 2011 at 20:24

Kenai said:
Stick it on the non OS partition and then if you ever need reinstall, you don't need to backup or reinstall Steam afterwards.

My Steam install has seen three different OS installs like this, including a move from XP to 7.

definately this.

Thats the beauty of Steam for me that you can reinstall the OS and don't have to download or reinstall all your games.

Just put the steamapps folder with the steam.exe and run it, job done.