Move steam to another hard disk

[SLH]

What would be the easiest way to do this?

Could it be as simple as just moving the files over, or do i have do edit various reg. entries?

Thanks for any help, and sorry if this is in the wrong forum.

 

[DreadLord]

Yea, you can just move it over.

Mine used to be in C:\Porgram Files\Steam

And now it's E:\Steam

Nothing broke, except you'll need to change the icon for steam, so that steam.exe is in the right place... My E drive is just for steam, and its over 35GB used lol.

 

[Maxi]

You have to reinstall steam though, if you don't your registry will be ****ed.

Just copy the steamapps folder to somewhere, uninstall steam. Reinstall steam on the new drive, copy back the steamapps folder.

 

[Goethe]

1 uninstall steam
2 move valve folder to desired location
3 install steam in the new location

 

[Maxi]

1 uninstall steam
2 move valve folder to desired location
3 install steam in the new location

Wrong, uninstalling steam will delete "the valve folder", which even doesn't exist if you installed steam via the web. AND it's not necesarry to copy it, only the steamapps folder.

 

[Goethe]

Wrong, uninstalling steam will delete "the valve folder", which even doesn't exist if you installed steam via the web. AND it's not necesarry to copy it, only the steamapps folder.

Wrong, it doesn't delete it. I know because I have done it.

 

[WeeViL]

For those that want to move Steam try here:

http://steampowered.custhelp.com/cg...SZwX3NlYXJjaF90ZXh0PW1vdmluZyBzdGVhbQ**&p_li=

 

[DreadLord]

I clicked and dragged steam.. and it worked fine. It didn't f*** my registry at all, or mess anything up. Works like a charm, as it always has.

 

[TEDR]

you could run one of those registry programs it will repair the registry to correct folder!!

 

[TEDR]

you could run one of those registry repair programs it will repair the registry to correct folder!!

 

[Ames]

If you want to edit your registry, which isn't that hard, just go type in "regedit" in Run from your start menu.

Then go to, HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE > SOFTWARE > VALVE > STEAM.

Click on the InstallPath and change it to whatever location it is now.



edit: This is highly unneeded though....

 

[SLH]

Thanks for all the help, i'm gonna go down the route suggested by the steampowered forums QnA.