Why do I have steam appearing on my C:\ drive and also on my D:\ drive

[arvee]

I do not have enough space available on my C:\ drive to install (4) of the games I want to reinstall
these games on my D:\ drive but it shows (2) separate C:\ entries for steam, I am confused, how do I reinstall these (4) games on my D:\ drive? I had my computer repaired a week ago. Thank you

[_I_]

steam may be installed twice
exit steam, and run the one you want to use
and make sure shortcuts are for the correct one


you can make a steam library on each drive
..\Steam\SteamApps
x:\..\SteamLibrary\steamapps

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just check the desktop shortcut for Steam.
What location does it point to?

[arvee]

What I need to know is how do I change Steam to the D:\
drive?

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Just run Steam.exe from D Drive; such as D:\Steam for example.
Steam is flexible enough that this is all you need to do to tell Windows Registry that this is now where Steam Client is installed; by doing that.

Once you have Steam on D Drive, go find and delete all of Steam on C Drive.
Just make sure any Steam shortcuts you wish to have, point to the Steam.exe on D Drive.

Now if you want Steam to have a Library on each drive, this is perfectly fine to do. Then pick D Drive as the default one. That way if you do not manually choose, it should always default to using D Drive.

[UserNotFound]

I have Steam Library in multiple drives (four separate drives actually), so when I install a game, all I need to do is let check which drive I wanna install the new game into.

[_I_]

if you have more than one library, and install a game, it will ask

[Bad 💀 Motha]

Usually you would...

> Install Steam Client to C Drive; such as C:\Steam

> Configure the Client Settings so that you are adding a SteamLibrary folder to each drive letter. Has to be done manually via Steam > Settings > Downloads > Steam Library Folder. Once they are configured, you can choose one of them as the default. So if I have say; C and D drives, I would make D the default. And only choose C drive during install for certain things I wanted there, but most I would just put on D, thus reason to make that your default.

> Clicking "Install" in Steam will result in a popup asking which Drive (per your Steam Library folders you've setup) to install the app/game to.

Then it ends up being something like this...

"c:\Steam" < The client itself with its own "SteamApps\Common" folder structure by default; the default Steam Library

"d:\SteamLibrary" < self created Steam Library folder via the Steam Settings, giving Steam another choice as a place to install apps/tools/games.

If you only have one SSD (OS Drive) then this is where you want to install Steam Client. It runs much smoother when ran off an SSD. If you have multiple SSDs then it won't really matter which drive you install the Client onto.

[arvee]

Excuse me for being so lame when it comes to computers but when I tried to follow your precise instructions nothing showed up as you stated. I got a D:\ drive recognized but for some reason I ended up with "D:\converttemp\steam library" I could not come up with just D:\ to make it my deault.

[kingjames488]

are the games actually installed on the C drive or are they just folders for settings?

[arvee]

Just a blank folder.

[kingjames488]

Originally posted by arvee:

Just a blank folder.

np ;)

[arvee]

What does np mean?

[kingjames488]

Originally posted by arvee:

What does np mean?

no problem

[Bad 💀 Motha]

So when you right click the Steam desktop shortcut and click Properties; what does it show for the Target line?

[arvee]

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\Steam.exe"