How To Download Steam To External Hard Drive

If for whatever reason you need to move steam games from one drive.

How to download steam to external hard drive. Valve s download platform is less flexible than you may think. First you ll need to make a steam library folder on the second drive if you haven t already done so. If you have a lot of steam games you must make sure to have and offline backup just in case something happens to your main hard drive such as it being infected breaking corrupting being stolen or even damaged due to fire or water. Once steam is installed the games should automatically install to the external hdd. On the next window that opens click ok and do not change the name of the folder that steam has set.

Each time you plug the hdd into a new computer you have to verify that computer with steam i think. Move game to external drive. To do this in steam click steam settings. On the main install window click next and the game will begin to download. Select the downloads category and click the steam library folders button.

Here s an example of how to move the steam installation between two hard drives. Steam even recently had serious backdoors in its code so nothing is 100 safe. Log out and exit steam. Moving your steam games around is trickier than you may think. Navigate to the folder where steam is installed by default.

It s been awhile since i set it up but i think all i had to do was install steam the the external hard drive. If you re low on space on the drive you have steam installed you can move the steam folder to a different location. This process is important whether you re copying an existing steam library to an external drive or setting up a brand new one from scratch to download all your games.