How to play steam games off a different hdd

[Remex]

so i have recently installed my new SSD drive (drive c:/) and i have a 1.5tb HDD with all my games on it (drive f:/) how can i play the games that are on the HDD without putting them on the SSD as i dont have any space on my SSD. thanks

[Remex]

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[placebo C=]

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[Remex]

is it not possible?

[Kiya]

At the top left of the Steam client go to Steam->settings->Download tab - 'Steam library folders' and add the steam folder on your hdd that has all your games installed in there.

[Rina]

^^

[Remex]

Originally posted by Kiya:

At the top left of the Steam client go to Steam->settings->Download tab - 'Steam library folders' and add the steam folder on your hdd that has all your games installed in there.

do i chose each game? or do i go to the steam/steamapps/common and then leave it there?

[[H]ouse]

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[Remex]

i tried this and it said 0 bytes. and then when i chose just /steam like it currently is on my ssd it says the folder must be empty

[Remex]

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[Remex]

bumop

[Alienowl]

Can't you just install the Steam program on drive F? I have my OS on drive C and Steam and all my games on drive D.

[Remex]

it is already installed on steam f but i cant run it while im on c. its 2 different harddrives running 2 separate windows 7

Originally posted by alienowl:

Can't you just install the Steam program on drive F? I have my OS on drive C and Steam and all my games on drive D.

[Alienowl]

I guess the two OSes cannot see each other. If I understand it correctly, you need to have Steam installed on both OSes in order to access the program from another drive.

just out of curiosity, why do you have two separate OSes on your system? If you are going to use F just for your games, then you can have Windows installed on your C drive and install Steam on your other drive and play all your games from there, no need to have Windows installed on F.

[[UFO] rad87gn]

I just installed Steam on my game storage drive (D: which is HDD for me) and all my Steam games get saved there instead of on my OS drive (C: which is SSD)

[Remex]

Originally posted by alienowl:

I guess the two OSes cannot see each other. If I understand it correctly, you need to have Steam installed on both OSes in order to access the program from another drive.

just out of curiosity, why do you have two separate OSes on your system? If you are going to use F just for your games, then you can have Windows installed on your C drive and install Steam on your other drive and play all your games from there, no need to have Windows installed on F.

i used to use my hdd (f) for all my stuff, so like steam games and all my work etc, however i upgraded to an ssd and installed my windows key onto it, but i left the windows on my hdd aswell so i didnt accidently delete everything. i have steam instaled on both hdd and ssd, which are 2 separate OS's. why i need someone to help me figure out how the steam on my SSD can recognise the steam games installed on the HDD