How To Download Steam On External Hard Drive

Open library choose the game you want to move right click it and select properties.

How to download steam on external hard drive. 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. 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. On the next window that opens click ok and do not change the name of the folder that steam has set. Navigate to the folder where steam is installed by default. On the main install window click next and the game will begin to download.

If you re low on space on the drive you have steam installed you can move the steam folder to a different location. Allow the game to finish downloading and play it. Just make a new folder named steamlibrary on your external drive and choose it. 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.

Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click select. Log out and exit steam. Once steam is installed the games should automatically install to the external hdd. In steam preferences downloads you can specify an alternate library folder. Move game to external drive.

Plug in your external drive of choice and fire up steam. How to install via steam installing games in a different location than default on steam is easy.