Move Steam to a different hard drive

[skyline4727]

My friend has a 64GB SSD and 500GB HDD. I configured Steam to install to the D: drive which is the 500GB hard drive but it's starting to fill up so I'm going to swap it with a 1TB instead. If I move all the data over to the new drive and install it as the D: while removing the old drive will Steam just work when I power on the computer or will it need to rescan for game files? I'm hoping it will just work since everything pointing to the D: drive should point to the bigger drive but I'm not positive.

 

[atomicWAR]

You should be able to copy and paste though you will have to change the 500Gb to D: when your done under disk management. also make sure the file structure is exactly the same on both disks.
ie
d:/program files (x86)/steam/etc/ etc/etc or what ever the file layout is in the original drive.

 

[Deleted member 217926]

It's super easy.

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

You can also just google 'move steam to another drive'. 😉

 

[USAFRet]

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


For future game installs
Steam games location
In the steam client:
Steam
Settings
Downloads
Steam Library Folders
Add library folder

 

[madmatt30]

So you're going to install the 1tb drive.

Cut & paste the steam games folder over from the current 500gb D: drive to the new drive

Remove or rename the 500gb to E: or similar
Then renamed the new 1tb drive to D: ??

If all the above is correct then yes it'll just work straight away & won't need to rescan anything.

 

[skyline4727]

Thank you very much everyone. I thought it would work but I just wanted to be sure. To clarify. I'm going to take out the 500GB and connect that and the 1TB to my laptop using USB to SATA and then pop only the 1TB back in. I'm hoping when I put the 1TB back in, it will automatically set as D: drive. Even if it doesn't, I can just change the drive letter in disk management.