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起风了 Sep 16 @ 8:36am

Portable hard disk

I just bought a 1TB portable hard drive from HP. How can I download games to this hard drive?

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Originally posted by Emperor Chungus III:

You gotta install the hard drive into Steam. Go to the top left corner on Steam. Click on the settings button. Should be the one that says Steam I think. Click settings. Then a pop up will appear. Go to Storage. Then click on "Add Drive" and if your hard drive is connected, it should pop up. Then just go back to the library, click install on a game and select the hard drive.

Edit: Cool. I'm the marked answer, lol.

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eram Sep 16 @ 8:38am

Pick the drive and download

Electric Cupcake Sep 16 @ 8:38am

Copy the Steam Appdata folder.

But only for backup purposes. Don't try to run games directly off an external disk. You probably could get away with it with USB 3.2, but it's unnecessarily complicated.

起风了 Sep 16 @ 8:39am

However, I found that when I clicked to download, it still only prompted me with the C drive and D drive that came with my computer itself.

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Emperor Chungus III Sep 16 @ 8:39am

Last edited by Emperor Chungus III; Sep 16 @ 8:43am

起风了 Sep 16 @ 8:43am

Originally posted by Emperor Chungus III:
You gotta install the hard drive into Steam. Go to the top left corner on Steam. Click on the settings button. Should be the one that says Steam I think. Click settings. Then a pop up will appear. Go to Storage. Then click on "Add Drive" and if your hard drive is connected, it should pop up. Then just go back to the library, click install on a game and select the hard drive.

thx!!!!

It works

Emperor Chungus III Sep 16 @ 8:44am

Originally posted by 起风了:
Originally posted by Emperor Chungus III:
You gotta install the hard drive into Steam. Go to the top left corner on Steam. Click on the settings button. Should be the one that says Steam I think. Click settings. Then a pop up will appear. Go to Storage. Then click on "Add Drive" and if your hard drive is connected, it should pop up. Then just go back to the library, click install on a game and select the hard drive.
thx!!!!:Mirro_love::Mirro_love:It works

Your welcome. Really simple to do once you figure it out, lol.

起风了 Sep 16 @ 8:45am

time to play Anno 1800 and Red Dead Redemption 2 lol

Emperor Chungus III Sep 16 @ 8:46am

Originally posted by 起风了:
time to play Anno 1800 and Red Dead Redemption 2 lol

Have fun.

起风了 Sep 16 @ 8:47am

So, can this portable hard drive of mine be ejected from the computer? If this is done, will there be any potential problems when playing the games on this hard drive next time? For example, file damage and so on

Emperor Chungus III Sep 16 @ 8:49am

Originally posted by 起风了:
So, can this portable hard drive of mine be ejected from the computer? If this is done, will there be any potential problems when playing the games on this hard drive next time? For example, file damage and so on

I'm pretty sure for Steam, it's probably a software thing. So if you placed this hard drive to a different computer. I think it should work fine as long as Steam is on it.

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