Adding Hard drive for steam

[wek31975]

Hi,
I'm adding a new hard drive to my PC for steam. My primary hard drive is getting full.

On the game installers it will ahve a pull down menu.
"Install on C"
Creat New Library on J
etc.

I'm going to add another HD to my PC to see if it will allow me to have mor stoage fo steam.

Has anyone else tried this?

[PogiWonKanobi]

Yes, this will work. Some games, like Half life 2 and Borderlands 1, have yet to migrate to the new server and will not allow you to install on a different hard drive, but newer games have no problem.

[_I_]

or if you get a new drive, just move the entire steam folder from programfiles to the new drive and run steam from there

[wek31975]

OK
You can add a hard drive for steam expansion. I just did it today.

Heres what you can do:

1. Istall the hard drive in the system.
2. Name the new hard drive so that you know what it is. Example: "2nd Steam Library"
3. You need to have a file on the hard drive that steam can put the games in. I made a file called "2nd Steam Library".
4. Now every time you install a game from steam you can use the pulldown menu. The default is "C" drive. My new hardive is "E/2nd Steam Library". I've made a empty file called "2nd Stem Library". Steam will give you a list of files on the hard drive where you want to install the game. Choose the file that yo have named & the installer will proceed like normal.

[Sifu Steve]

Hi. First post... forgive my ignorance.
I have an admittedly small SSD as my main drive that I've used it as my primary Steam drive so new modern games can go there. As long as I download to it, all is well. But for older games I want to put them on my secondary drive. I have tried selecting 'create new folder on D:' but it says 'failed to create new folder' or siimilar. It hasn't - my D drive sure as hell has a path that is: D:Games/Steam/SteamLibrary/SteamApps but it won't allow me to download anything to there.

there's no explanation as to why it won't, only that it failed. Do I honestly have to change my default download location every time I switch between a modern and older game (C an D drive respectively)? If I now choose D as my default location will it effect the games I'm currently downloading to C?

I never wanted to become a PC gamer but Afghanistan has forced it upon me. I figured Steam would be a good place to start but so far I feel I've fallen flat on my face at the second hurdle...

Cheers in advance.

Steve

[wek31975]

Creat A folder on the hard drive that you have added, call it somthing that you can remember. Example: Steam games Vol. 2. When you use the pull down in the game installer, it will show that foler on the hard drive that is added.

To add folder to formatted hard drive:
Open my computer
Look for HD with New Volume or Local Disk what ever its assined by WINDOWS.
Double click on it to open it.
You will see "This folder is empty"
Right click on the pane. Click on "Make New Folder".
You will now see a foler that wioll say New Folder.
Right click that & name it what ever you can remember that relates to Steam.
Also, know the Letter of your Steam expansion drive.

When in the installer you should see:
Example: E:/Steam 2nd Librarey" or what ever you named the folder.

You will always have to use the pull down menu to assighn the correct location that you want the game to be installed. Steam needs to kn ow the hard driv, & the folder path. Just remember that everytime you instsall a game or steam will install on primary hard drive C.

[wek31975]

D: is normally a opticle drive. You can not install a game to a CD, or a DVD with any PC game or PC program. Only hard drives work in NTFS. You may get away with a Flash Drive formatted in NTFS, but I probably not. I think it will only work with perminant storage, like a Solid State Drive, or a Hard Drive

[Jamebonds1]

Yes. I used my 500 GB as OS and backup, and i used my 2 TB as gaming.

Originally posted by wek31975:

D: is normally a opticle drive. You can not install a game to a CD, or a DVD with any PC game or PC program. Only hard drives work in NTFS. You may get away with a Flash Drive formatted in NTFS, but I probably not. I think it will only work with perminant storage, like a Solid State Drive, or a Hard Drive

Only if you backup game. It can stored to CD, DVD or Blu ray. Flash Drive do support FAT, FAT32, exFAT and NTFS. Just not good idea to installing game into USB flash. Also hard drive can be D:/ and other letter.

[wek31975]

In a build that I am doing I'm going to be useing a Samsung 128 GB 840 PRO as a primary boot disk with Windows 8 & of course Steam. I'll also be useing a 3 TB HDD for Media & Steam Game content. That should be a fun PC when I finish it.

[Jamebonds1]

Originally posted by wek31975:

In a build that I am doing I'm going to be useing a Samsung 128 GB 840 PRO as a primary boot disk with Windows 8 & of course Steam. I'll also be useing a 3 TB HDD for Media & Steam Game content. That should be a fun PC when I finish it.

Not recommend for 3 TB to running any program but it is "go and take risk"

[wek31975]

I did say for Steam content. Not Steam it's self. Steam is self will be on SSD C. Games will be on HDD. I have all games backed up after Install to a external HDD. Reminds me, need to upgrade that too. Maybe a internal for my hot swap, or ESATA interface hook up. Right now USB 3 is still too slow to wait for for back up. I've seen 75 mbps. with ESATA, wich is SATA vs. 30 mbps with USB 3.0.

[Jamebonds1]

Originally posted by wek31975:

I did say for Steam content. Not Steam it's self. Steam is self will be on SSD C. Games will be on HDD. I have all games backed up after Install to a external HDD. Reminds me, need to upgrade that too. Maybe a internal for my hot swap, or ESATA interface hook up. Right now USB 3 is still too slow to wait for for back up. I've seen 75 mbps. with ESATA, wich is SATA vs. 30 mbps with USB 3.0.

What is is your motherboard model? SATA 3 is 6GB/s and USB3 is 5GB/s. You will getting only about 120 MB/s on hard drive.

[wek31975]

I's about starage, not so much speed with Steam. Have 625 GB in backup now. I'm sure that I will need more staoreage on new PC. My concern with the Samsung 840 Pro SSD is to be able boot a liitle quicker in to Windows. Right, SATA 3. Hope to still get quicker OS boot.

[MacOSX4ever]

ok, so none of this works. Is there a limit?
I have 3 drives now, and there doesn't seem to be a way to add the 4th.
It's in the system, formatted NTFS, as my other drives are, and no way to get Steam to see the drive, or install or move to it.
I add eded a folder called "SteamLibrary" and "Steam", and nothing.
Maybe a registry key? Or is that too many drives for Steam?
Will it recognize shortcuts?
Any work-around?

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by MacOSX4ever:

ok, so none of this works. Is there a limit?
I have 3 drives now, and there doesn't seem to be a way to add the 4th.
It's in the system, formatted NTFS, as my other drives are, and no way to get Steam to see the drive, or install or move to it.
I add eded a folder called "SteamLibrary" and "Steam", and nothing.
Maybe a registry key? Or is that too many drives for Steam?
Will it recognize shortcuts?
Any work-around?

Wait for the drive to be recognized by the storage manager (which was not a thing back in 2013). Give it about 5-10 minutes.

[_I_]

it does not take time, just need to restart steam
then add the drive to steams library folders