So while the above method is perfect for moving one Steam game to another drive at a time, its very time consuming if you have a large library of games that you need to move to a new hard drive.įortunately there is a way to do this, which is very easy as its similar to the method of how to move Steam games to another computerįirst you will need to open both your current and new Steam Library folders. Here are the 5 current best deals on SSD Drives, with the biggest savings, currently available on Amazon, should you are looking for a new drive to transfer you Steam games to.
You might see the game be added to your update queue, but don’t worry, Steam will take a few seconds just to initialize the game.Īnd that’s about all you need to know on how to copy downloaded Steam games to another drive. I was able to move DOOM which is a 70GB game to a new SSD drive in about 5mins. The time it takes is dependent on the speed of both drives, as well as your CPU in general. Now sit back and wait for Steam to move the game to the new install drive. If you had set up a third or more install locations in the previous steps, then those will also show in the drop down menu.
Now simply right click on the new Steam games library drive location, and set it to ‘ DEFAULT’.
Once done, you should see the new drive location added in below your previous install location. By default Steam will create a new folder called ‘ SteamLibrary’, but you can rename this to whatever you like, such as ‘ Steam’ or ‘ Games’, or \Games\Steam, if you are like me and have various other clients install under your games folder. Now select the new hard drive, where you’d like to move and install your Steam games to. Click the ‘ ADD LIBRARY FOLDER’ button, on the bottom left.Another popup window will appear, listing your current default Steam Games Library install folder, which will most likely be ‘ C:\Program Files\Steam’.In Downloads, click on the ‘ STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS’ button.In the settings popup menu, click on ‘ DOWNLOADS’.Click on the ‘ STEAM’ button at the top of your client, then click ‘SETTINGS’.To do this, first open up your Steam client and do the following:
In order for either of these two methods to work, we first need to create another Steam Library Folder on the new hard drive or SSD.