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"Moving Steam etc."

Right I currently have Steam, HL2, CS etc etc etc installed on my C-Drive taking up about 10gigs. Just purchased a new hard-drive (D) which I intend to install all my games onto. This process is simple for most games, just a matter of uninstalling and reinstalling, then copying across the savegames etc. Although I have no idea how to do this with Steam etc, and really dont want to have to redownload every single update for every single game. So any advice would be lovely.

Tomm

And its done.

Found a useful page here for anyone interested.

[URL]http://developer.valvesoftware.com/wiki/Cleanly_reinstalling_Steam[/URL]

Right now where do I find the steam installer?

Wait nevermind, i'm using the backup facility then I'll just uninstall everything properly. I think. I'll go check the official site first i think...

'Twas what I thought I'd need to do. Hopefully it all works.

Edit: Bah uninstalled the BF2 demo and realised i didnt have the installer, plus my BBand is being upgraded today so I want to wait till I get the 1meg, else it may just disco randomly...

yup, just install steam to the new drive, then copy across folder containing the games, there might be one or 2 small bits that need downloading but it will save to the hours of getting it all again.

At a complete guess, you could try installing Steam onto the new drive then copying and pasting the old Steam directory from the first drive over the new one on your new drive, and hoping for the best.

If that makes any sense.

Right I currently have Steam, HL2, CS etc etc etc installed on my C-Drive taking up about 10gigs. Just purchased a new hard-drive (D) which I intend to install all my games onto. This process is simple for most games, just a matter of uninstalling and reinstalling, then copying across the savegames etc. Although I have no idea how to do this with Steam etc, and really dont want to have to redownload every single update for every single game. So any advice would be lovely.

Tomm