How To Download Steam To External Hard Drive

Move game to external drive.

How to download steam to external hard drive. Steam even recently had serious backdoors in its code so nothing is 100 safe. Each time you plug the hdd into a new computer you have to verify that computer with steam i think. To do this in steam click steam settings. If you re low on space on the drive you have steam installed you can move the steam folder to a different location. Allow the game to finish downloading and play it.

Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click select. Select the downloads category and click the steam library folders button. On the next window that opens click ok and do not change the name of the folder that steam has set. On the main install window click next and the game will begin to download. 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.

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. Click add library folder select the drive you want to create the library folder on and click new. Once steam is installed the games should automatically install to the external hdd. Log out and exit steam. First you ll need to make a steam library folder on the second drive if you haven t already done so.

Moving your steam games around is trickier than you may think. Here s an example of how to move the steam installation between two hard drives. Navigate to the folder where steam is installed by default.