Fresh Install on Main Drive, What to Do to Get Steam and Epic Working as They Were Installed on The Secondary Drive?

I cannot get either Steam or Epic to work, both installed on d: not c:, a little confused.

I would rather not have to wipe and install my whole games library there are about 1 tb of games there…

Anyone have any tips?

I know this is not really a tech forum, but it's the only place I visit often…

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  • +5

    The instructions are all here

    https://help.steampowered.com/en/faqs/view/4BD4-4528-6B2E-83….

    There is no need to uninstall or reinstall any games. Simply navigate to where the steam games are installed and copy and paste them to any drive you want — as long as you have a Steam Library set up on that drive, Steam will automatically detect those games.

    Edit: Steam itself has a move function, which you can locate in Steam settings -> Storage. If possible, this should be used instead of manually cutting and pasting folders.

    https://clan.akamai.steamstatic.com/images/39983882/b15e1abc…

  • +1

    Simply find and double click Steam\steam.exe

    Also create a shortcut while you're at it. Steam ought adapt. Or reinstall from setup package to same place again - only take a minute.

    (Alternatively, you can move Steam\steamapps\ into a different installation path if you want, or technically, technically adapt it to a more portable \SteamLibrary\steamapps\ folder per drive; but the latter kind of library folder arrangement mustn't reside on a drive where Steam is "installed" or launched from - and then you must tell Steam where to expect these respective root libraries.)

  • +1

    yes use the built-in move function for steam, for epic i have no idea

    • Yeah epic is the issue at the moment :(

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