How To Download Steam To External Hard Drive

To do this in steam click steam settings.

How to download steam to external hard drive. It s been awhile since i set it up but i think all i had to do was install steam the the external hard drive. Valve s download platform is less flexible than you may think. Move game to external drive. First you ll need to make a steam library folder on the second drive if you haven t already done so. If for whatever reason you need to move steam games from one drive.

Steam even recently had serious backdoors in its code so nothing is 100 safe. Here s an example of how to move the steam installation between two hard drives. Click add library folder select the drive you want to create the library folder on and click new. Moving your steam games around is trickier than you may think. If you have a lot of steam games you must make sure to have and offline backup just in case something happens to your main hard drive such as it being infected breaking corrupting being stolen or even damaged due to fire or water.

If you re low on space on the drive you have steam installed you can move the steam folder to a different location. On the main install window click next and the game will begin to download. Allow the game to finish downloading and play it. Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click select. On the next window that opens click ok and do not change the name of the folder that steam has set.

Once steam is installed the games should automatically install to the external hdd. Navigate to the folder where steam is installed by default. Each time you plug the hdd into a new computer you have to verify that computer with steam i think.