How to Create a New Steam Game Installation Location
Before you can move Steam games to a new drive, Steam needs to know where it’s allowed to store games. By default, it wants to store games on the same drive you chose when you first installed the Steam client. To accomplish this, all you need to do is add a new Steam library folder on the drive of your choice. Steam will create the folder where you tell it to, and then you’ll be ready to move some games. Here’s how to create a Steam library folder on a new drive:
How to Move Steam Games to a New Drive
Once you have created a new Steam library folder on the drive of your choice, you’re ready to start moving games. This process requires you to move one game at a time, and it can take quite a while for Steam to complete the transfer process depending on the speed of your hard drives. Here’s how to move a Steam game to a new drive:
Steam Games and Storage Space Problems
Dealing with limited storage space on the drive where you have Steam installed used to be a huge hassle. In the early days of Steam, your games all had to be located on the same drive as the Steam client itself. If you ran out of space, you had to jump through hoops with third-party software applications, symbolic links, and other annoyances. None of that is necessary anymore. Steam has the built-in capacity to move any game you have downloaded to any storage drive you have connected to your computer. All you have to do is tell Steam the new location where you want to be able to store games, and then tell it which games to move.
