Moving Steam from one hard drive to another

[ríomhaire]

Will anything bad happen if I move Steam (as in copy and paste folder) from my C drive (almost full) to my D drive? Will Steam come up with an error
"OMGWTFBBQ WHERE'S THE STEAM FOLDER GONEZ!!!"
Or will anything bad happen? I currently have nothing fully updated (so no Steam backup) and I want to move it without uninstalling and re-installing.

 

[Barney Fife]

I could be wrong, and I already tried this by letting Windows transfer folder to it's new drive. I'm afraid the only way possible is to reinstall Steam.

But wait for others' opinion, maybe there is a trick that I'm not aware of.

But if you manually move files, there are chances you may ruin and corrupt root-directory or their Direct Link Library and registry, which you need to launch Steam. If they get corrupted it will be pain in the neck to launch or delete and uninstall Steam.

Good Luck.

 

[Epsi]

All you have to do is copy and paste the folder, and delete the clientregistry.blob file, and all will be fine.

 

[ríomhaire]

Sure? I'll try that. Maybe if that fails I can just copy the cgfs, uninstall, reinstall and then paste them.

 

[diluted]

Copy the GCF files, because those files contain all of the game files. So basically, copy all the GCF files (in SteamApps folder) to a DVD or another partition or something, then uninstall/re-install Steam, then copy the files back.

 

[Przemek]

Deleting clientregistry.blob will do it. Just move the whole, huge Steam folder anywhere you want and delete this .blob file. Steam will re-update itself and become aware (oh noes! ) of where it's game files are.
I did that a few months ago, so it's 100% verified

 

[ríomhaire]

Moving...

 

[AlecRazec]

Tell me how well that works, rionhaire, I'm wanting to do the exact same thing.

Where's the .blob file?

 

[Hypnosos]

Tell me how well that works, rionhaire, I'm wanting to do the exact same thing.

Where's the .blob file?

C:\Program\Steam is the default folder I guess. The main Steam folder.

 

[ríomhaire]

Nothing has exploded yet. Steam is updating (it always does when you delete the clientregistry.blob file, I've done it a few times).
I'll report if everything is intact when it's done.

 

[CoalVayne]

I tried something just like this but for a different reason (bad harddrive) i cant get my computer online so does anyone know what file i have to change so steam sees where to load them from?

 

[99.vikram]

I just moved Steam to d drive from default (C). Deleted clientregistry.blob and everything is working fine.

But if I buy a new game can I install it now? :|

 

[ríomhaire]

Why wouldn't you be able to?

 

[Blakeb155]

I have recently just done the same thing.

I got my instructions from here:
http://support.steampowered.com/cgi...3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9Mg**&p_li=&p_topview=1

The only problem I have is that I cannot download my media files!

 

[99.vikram]

I have recently just done the same thing.

I got my instructions from here:
http://support.steampowered.com/cgi...3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9Mg**&p_li=&p_topview=1

The only problem I have is that I cannot download my media files!

THANK YOU! I am not alone :E
So I can download new games. Well, whoop-dee-doo!

 

[ríomhaire]

I have recently just done the same thing.

I got my instructions from here:
http://support.steampowered.com/cgi...3B2PSZwX2N2PSZwX3BhZ2U9Mg**&p_li=&p_topview=1

The only problem I have is that I cannot download my media files!

Shit, I get that too. Maybe it is because we moved.

 

[lemonystuff]

simple, copy your steamapps folder to your new drive, uninstall steam, then install it in the new drive

steamapps----->D:\Temp Folder
uninstall steam
install steam to D:\Program Files\Steam

or something along those lines