Steam on an external hardrive?

[ajezard]

Ok, so i've decided that i want to install steam to my external hardrive, so i opened up the steam installer and set the install path to my ext. hardrive, so then i click next, and i get a message saying that it cant install because the targeted disk drive is removeble, or something along those lines, so how would i get around this?

 

[PimpinPenguin]

Install Steam on your C drive then copy the Steam folder over to your external drive. Steam will then work off it.

 

[Laivasse]

Install Steam on your C drive then copy the Steam folder over to your external drive. Steam will then work off it.

I've done this in the past and it works, from what I recall. A Steam install doesn't seem to write a hell of a lot to the registry.

 

[ajezard]

works great, but the the idea of putting it on the hdd is so i can run it on mutiple computers without the need to repeadidly download and update games, so im gunna test it on my other comp now.

 

[PimpinPenguin]

That's not a problem. Steam will download and install the games in it's folder and if you copy the Steam folder to another PC it will work.Steam will update itself to work so make sure you've got a internet connection on all the computers. I've tried this when i used to put games on my USB drive to take to college and it works.

 

[ajezard]

ok, so i put it in the comp, and opened steam, and it said 'steam updating platform files' and it just froze, what now?

 

[PimpinPenguin]

It can take awhile for Steam to adjust to the new PC, give it 10-15 mins and see if it works.

 

[ajezard]

nope, i left it for half an hour, and still, nothing