How to transfer steam games to another hard drive?

[osode12]

I’m upgrading my cpu, ram, and motherboard and I want to save my steam games to another hard drive and photos. How can I do that also how can I wipe my current drive with my OS?

 

[Aaron Connor]

Just copy you steam folder in c Programs to new pc reinstall steam and should be fine. Assuming c program files steam is where you installed steam and games.

 

[jankerson]

That's simple enough, just find the Steam Directory on the Hard Drive, it's in Program files X86 and copy it all over to the new drive.

Wipe the new drive during Windows install, you can delete the partitions on the drives and create new ones etc.

Just make sure you drop the folder back into the Programs files x86 after.

 

[USAFRet]

Exactly like this:

To move an already installed game
Games library
Right click the game
Properties
Local Files
Move Install Folder


To default to a different drive, like this:
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

 

[Aaron Connor]

So you select the second post as the best answer when what I said is the same! And tbf usarfet answer is better.