How To Download Steam On External Hard Drive

Move game to external drive.

How to download steam on external hard drive. This process is important whether you re copying an existing steam library to an external drive or setting up a brand new one from scratch to download all your games. Navigate to the folder where steam is installed by default. Log out and exit steam. Allow the game to finish downloading and play it. Once steam is installed the games should automatically install to the external hdd.

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. Each time you plug the hdd into a new computer you have to verify that computer with steam i think. How to install via steam installing games in a different location than default on steam is easy. Plug in your external drive of choice and fire up steam. In steam preferences downloads you can specify an alternate library folder.

If you re low on space on the drive you have steam installed you can move the steam folder to a different location. Open steam then click steam settings downloads steam library folders add library folder choose the folder on the external hard drive. Here s an example of how to move the steam installation between two hard drives. Here s how it s done. 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. I have a video here showing you how to install your steam games on a second hard drive incase they start to take up too much space on you.