How To Transfer A Steam Game To Another Drive. Next with your games listed select all the ones you want to move by holding ctrl while clicking each one so theyre all highlighted. You can copy the steam folder altogether to the new hd and then do the following.
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Navigate to your steam installation folder. This will make it re sync with the steam cloud and download everything again and recognize the just installed games. Steam has a built in methods for moving individual games between libraries this is good to know if any game has problems running and you need to move them back.
The backup speed depends on the size of your game data.
Copy and paste the game create a folder in the new location where youll keep the games. Now you can move your steam library whenever you need to upgrade your old drive. Next with your games listed select all the ones you want to move by holding ctrl while clicking each one so theyre all highlighted. Once youre done you can fire up the steam client once again and games will now load from the new location.