Moving Steam to new hard drive

Tungsten · Post by **Tungsten** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:17 am

I searched around, read the Steam tech help, and it seems like all I do is install Steam on the new hard drive and then move the steamapps folder.

But I feel like I'm missing something...is it really that easy? Are there registry things I need to take care of, profile things to move or anything else I need to be aware of?

Post by **MrBlah** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:18 am

It's really that easy. I have done this countless times.

Tungsten · Post by **Tungsten** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 1:19 am

Cool, thanks for the quick reply.

Post by **Mortis462** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 11:14 am

I only ran into a problem when trying to move from XP to Win7 64bit, but then I was expecting a problem but tried it anyhow

Post by **MrBlah** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 2:11 pm

Mortis462 wrote:I only ran into a problem when trying to move from XP to Win7 64bit, but then I was expecting a problem but tried it anyhow

This wasn't a problem for me.

Post by **Masakari** » Tue Jan 11, 2011 3:33 pm

Interesting fact - I was actually simultaneously running the same Steam installation when I was using Windows Vista along with the Windows 7 Beta. Symlinking is a godsend for stuff like that.

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