Comments on: How To Migrate Steam To a New Hard Drive

By: Marko

Marko — Thu, 03 Jan 2013 02:59:02 +0000

You say that for the third party games we need to move the “My games” folder to the same location… but where do I move it if my other drive is “F:” in the same computer… or do I leave it in “C:” ???

By: Jake Francis

Jake Francis — Thu, 27 Dec 2012 13:49:12 +0000

Hey mate, I did this completely the way it was shown, but none of my games saved.. I have to re install all of them. Even know all the game and it’s content on on the new drive and in the steam app folder, should i just re install, or is there a way around this? All the files are there, there is no way to tell steam that it’s there and that i don’t have to re install..

By: Tucker

Tucker — Fri, 14 Dec 2012 21:35:48 +0000

Hi, thanks for this. We have a computer that is running out of disk space so we are adding a new drive. We plan to move the steam installation to the new drive as you have said. We also have other games that have the saved games in different locations. Moving the stem folder will save about 500 gb on the old hard drive. Could we leave the other games, not part of the steam folder, where they are without moving them? We will possibly have saved enough space on the old hd so leaving the other games where they are would be ok space wise. Do you think all the games will still work?

Thanks

By: Alexander Clare

Alexander Clare — Mon, 05 Nov 2012 16:04:07 +0000

Hey Thanks so much man, this really cleared up a lot of space on my SSD, which is only 120 GB and I really only wanted to use for the OS.

By: KW

KW — Sat, 03 Nov 2012 07:36:28 +0000

OK, that as helpful. Thank you!

By: Ed Lucas

Ed Lucas — Wed, 31 Oct 2012 18:24:55 +0000

Thanks for the post. easy to read and straight to the point, getting a new 1 tb hdd just for steam next week :)

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 22:35:01 +0000

Try right-clicking the game in Steam, selecting Properties, clicking the Local Files tab, and clicking the Verify Integrity of Game Cache button.

that helps with a lot of file-related issues. Failing that, definitely contact Steam support and make them help you: https://support.steampowered.com/

By: Igor

Igor — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 09:14:54 +0000

in new machine I installed steam to D drive, after loading game from steam (many hrs await) the game is temporarily unavailable.try again later. already 2 weeks i try to fix it and nothing helps. what u say steam reply in a week thats a fast reaction !

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 17:26:14 +0000

The Steam backup feature is designed more for backing up individual games — think of it like making a copy of a game’s installer disc, you just have one game and don’t have your save files.

Valve recommends the above procedure if you want to back up *all* your games along with save files and configuration files.

By: KW

KW — Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:36:25 +0000

Thank you for this post. This would have saved me a lot of trouble when I switched to a new computer this past summer, had I known about it then, but it will be useful in the future I’m sure.

I also discovered that Steam offers a feature to back up currently installed games, which I assume should also allow me to also restore the backed up games to a new hard drive, I am wondering if there are any noticeable differences or advantages and disadvantages between doing it one way or the other?

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:29:23 +0000

Nope, you won’t have to move your save files at all if you’re moving games around on the same computer! Don’t worry about it.

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:28:58 +0000

You’ll have to contact Steam support about that, hopefully they can help you: https://support.steampowered.com/

By: Chris Hoffman

Chris Hoffman — Sat, 20 Oct 2012 20:28:37 +0000

Yup, that’s the one. Windows just hides file extensions by default.

As far as saves, that’s more complicated — check the article above where I devoted some time to explaining it. Different games do different things.

By: SirDavies

SirDavies — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 19:39:03 +0000

I want to transfer my Steam files to a second internal hard drive on the same computer. What happens with the game saves then? Do I have to create a “my games” folder on the second hard drive or will it find the saves in the first hdd? Please answer.

By: CRUZITO

CRUZITO — Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:31:15 +0000

can you help me i don’t wanna move all my games just my account folder register i install a new steam and a new pc but when i enter my account name and password i just can’t log on they do some question what i’m forgotten when i did my account thx