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Once that’s all done, reinstall Steam on the drive of your choice, and copy back the steamapps folder to your new install location.
Point is be sure its not that , boot disk is D-drive and OS is installed at C-drive, im not so sure that possible anymore with win10, but it was on the previous OS.
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Rest is more a fiddle with it, with move steam to whatever disk and then make new steam folder at other disks then exit stram move game on its place, dont forget app manifest.
then same place where you add steam lib right click on disk to activate repair steam library.
ps.
dont forget we other moved all , you try split things up again, my main steam is still at D-drive
and it work fine dont need steam on OS SSD disk, im no so sure why you want steam back at C-Drive, look more like wrong boot disk issue.
you need to be skilled to even get this. ( looks like a Laptop with i know my default harddisk and boot from that though BIOS )
1. Cut and Paste the common folder inside the steamapps folder to somewhere else on your hard drive, anywhere. Do this so it's not seen therefore it wont be touched by the uninstall process of the client. You don't need any of the other folders in the SteamApps folder. You can do this to the WorkShop folder if you want but it's not necessary - that's where any workshop items you've subscribed to are stored. They'll redownload quickly as you launch the game they're associated with and replace them selves.
2. Go to Start > Settings > Apps and uininstall Steam.
3. Go to steampowered.com and re-install Steam. Install it on the C:\ where you want it.
* Don't launch the client right away after it installs. You can if you want but your games aren't going to show up until you do the next steps.
4. Cut / Paste the common folder to wherever you want it if you want to move it from where you moved it to so it wasn't uninstalled.
5. Launch the Steam Client and go to Steam > Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folders (button). You seem to know where this is and what to do with it.
Note: We can only have 2 library folders and they have to be on separate drives as far as I'm aware unless they've changed that.
6. Exit the client and restart it again. Your games should be listed there now (View > Small Mode) but they're probably going to be grayed out. Double-Click on them to launch them. A validation process will run that's the same thing as verifying file integrity. It's a much faster process than having to download and install all the games again.
Good to go after you click on the games to launch them and let the validation process run.
Thanks for your quick reply MancSoulja unfortunately the SteamApps folder on the D: drive is over 1.3 TB in size (over 100 games) not an easy amount of data to move, plus you need to have the spare space!! Thanks for your suggestion anyway but I was hoping for a way around this.
You don’t have to move it to a different drive, as long as it’s not in the Steam folder when you uninstall Steam, the uninstall process will nuke anything in the steam folder.
Once Steam is reinstalled create a new library folder on the old drive and drop the steamapps folder in that location, that way you can achieve required results without moving your games anywhere.
Hi Iceira,
My boot disk settings are fine, the reason I want to move the steam client back to C: drive is "the only reason I'm looking at moving it back to the C: drive is so that Windows 10 no longer sees the D: drive as a system drive" see by having the steam client on the D: drive it is still technically part of the C: System drive as Windows will load steam on startup, therefore the D: Drive needs a system partition on it otherwise it wouldn't load properly, this is why Windows 10 Backup needs a disc image of the D: drive as well cause it's marked as system files.
There's no need to split things up on the current drive as I mentioned previously other than steam there are only games on the D: drive so there's no other files being used for the system.
Thanks your suggestions anyway!
Regardless you still need to move 1.3TB from the Steam Folder, whether it's the same drive or another makes no difference.
Now, you CAN actually split an existing NTFS partition into two partitions without risking damage to the data, effectively splitting one drive into two "logical" drives, but for that to matter the second partition would need to be big enough to hold your steamapps folder. After that, you'd copy the steamapps folder, uninstall Steam, reinstall it on your main drive, create a new library folder on the partition formerly occupied by Steam, drop the backup back in, then delete the split partition and expand the remaining one with the now unallocated space; while this method is perfectly fine, it's a bit advanced and you risk deleting all of your data if you mess up the wrong step.
What MancSoulja and I suggested, which is the same thing, is the only way around it without having to re-download and install all your games again.
If you have an external or a bunch of flash drives move the common folder there temporarily.
I don't know if it will work or not but you can try renaming the steamapps folder; put a _ or a 1 or something in it's name. That has a chance of keeping it without it being uninstalled when you uninstall the client but I've never done it so I'm not positive it will work.
I do know that any folders we've created on our own in the steamapps folder (I have backup folders in mine) don't get deleted when I uninstall the client. So there is a chance renaming it will keep it in tact.
Another thing that might work you can try is if you have the space use 7-zip at it's highest compression rate and put it in a 7z archive to conserve it.
That will keep it for sure, but...right....you need the free space to make the archive (zip) file.
Of course it does, if you keep the games on the same drive they’re already on, it doesn’t take up more space, you’re just moving them from one location to another.
You won’t have to wait to copy all that data either, It’ll move instantly because they’re all staying on the same drive.
im not so sure this is a steam issue at all. most here can tell you that.
steam on D-driver is seen as backup Solutions , you need to exclued it though backup, im not sure windows backup Solution can do that.
That's not entirely true. It won't be instantaneous for a 1.3TB file unless they have a ton of cores like a 12 core processor all running at 4.0+ghz
I have a 4 core all running at 3.8ghz and just moved a 30gb folder to test it. It was quick but it still displayed the progress prompt of it moving. It's also not going to magically *poof* in to another realm or something when it's cut it will require some space for it to cut, paste, cut, paste each file.
Hi Jack,
Moving the Common folder is the same as moving the SteamApps folder as the game data is stored in the common folder, in my case this folder contains over 1.3TB of data so I was hoping to avoid this.
I have reinstalled Steam numerous times in the past such as after reinstalling Windows 10, although it's always been reinstalled to the same directory on the D: drive where the SteamApps folder is. And each time it recognizes the existing library and games, plus if you want to be able to install the games from scratch just delete the manifest files and steam will prompt the games to be reinstalled.
What I haven't done previously is relocated the Steam client to another location without the Steam Apps folder this is where I'm stuck.
See steam has an article titled;
How do I move my existing Steam Installation?
The following instructions are a simple way to move your Steam installation along with your games:
Exit the Steam client application.
Browse to the Steam installation folder for the Steam installation you would like to move (C:\Program Files\Steam by default).
Delete all of the files and folders except the SteamApps & Userdata folders and Steam.exe
Cut and paste the whole Steam folder to the new location, for example: D:\Games\Steam\
Launch Steam and log into your account.
I have done this successfully numerous times in the past, the only difference being that the SteamApps folder needs to be there as well, this works well if you have problems with steam and need to repair your install, plus it retains all your settings and library details so you don't need to reconfigure anything.
I was hoping for a way around this without moving the SteamApps (common) folder.
You mentioned only 2 Library folders, I wasn't sure whether this was the case, as I have two folders already, and I don't necessarily need a third, but if steam requires that at least one folder is on the same drive as the steam client then that would make it a third for me, as I already have D: and F:
By the way I don't have two primary partitions, a system partition is different to a primary partition, each drive can have a system partition if it contains files needed by the OS at bootup, such as loading Steam on Windows Startup.
It depends on whether the D:\ is physically another driver or whether it's a partition, how they do the recovery process and what options are chosen when they do it.
I do agree it's not at all necessary to do this.
1. Steam runs just fine regardless of where it's installed and running from.
2. Why not let it make a backup of the D:\, all your games and data?
I don't get why they want to stop it from doing that but...if it's what they want that's what I'll attempt assisting to get done.
Some people are picky and menial things like that really bother them. Like people leaving toast crumbs in the butter bin drives some people insane.
No, if the data stays on the same drive, it literally isn't being moved anywhere, you're simply changing the drive index to point to another location.
If you move data from D:/Steam to D:/temp, the data isn't being physically moved to a different location on the platter, your just changing a file that tells the drive where the data is stored.