How To Download Steam To External Hard Drive

First you ll need to make a steam library folder on the second drive if you haven t already done so.

How to download steam to external hard drive. Steam even recently had serious backdoors in its code so nothing is 100 safe. If for whatever reason you need to move steam games from one drive. Allow the game to finish downloading and play it. Click add library folder select the drive you want to create the library folder on and click new. To do this in steam click steam settings.

Log out and exit steam. On the next window that opens click ok and do not change the name of the folder that steam has set. Move game to external drive. Navigate to the folder where steam is installed by default. Moving your steam games around is trickier than you may think.

Valve s download platform is less flexible than you may think. 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. Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click select. Once steam is installed the games should automatically install to the external hdd. Here s an example of how to move the steam installation between two hard drives.

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. If you re low on space on the drive you have steam installed you can move the steam folder to a different location. On the main install window click next and the game will begin to download.