Steam on pimary SSD, game on secondary HDD?


  1. Posts : 92
    Windows 7 x64 Enterprise
       #1

    Steam on pimary SSD, game on secondary HDD?


    Is this possible? I have a few games that I don't play too often and I would like to move them to my secondary HDD to create some room on my primary SSD for new games.
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  2. Posts : 4,517
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64bit
       #2

    Yes. You can use a junction to move the games folder.
    You can move the entire steamapps/common folder, or just individual games. (I would just move individual if you want some left where they are)

    You can also use a app like this one to do it for you.
    Junction Link Magic


    Essentially, You want to make a folder where ever you want the game to be.

    Then move all the files inside the games folder (the one steamapps/common/ GAME) to the new folder.

    Next, delete the files inside the folder in the Steam Game folder.

    So you should now have a folder with the games files where ever you want it to be...
    and the games folder where it was originally should just be empty.

    Use Juntion Link Magic to create a juntion.
    As far as STEAm in concerned, the folder is still there, even though it is physically on another drive.
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  3. Posts : 92
    Windows 7 x64 Enterprise
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Great, thank you! Will try this tomorrow in the evening when I have some time.
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