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.

How to download steam on external hard drive. 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. Each time you plug the hdd into a new computer you have to verify that computer with steam i think. If you re low on space on the drive you have steam installed you can move the steam folder to a different location. How to install via steam installing games in a different location than default on steam is easy.

Navigate to the folder where steam is installed by default. Log out and exit steam. In steam preferences downloads you can specify an alternate library folder. 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. Allow the game to finish downloading and play it.

Move game to external drive. Here s how it s done. 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. Here s an example of how to move the steam installation between two hard drives.

Once steam is installed the games should automatically install to the external hdd. Open library choose the game you want to move right click it and select properties.