Howto: Move Steam to another drive

Steam on PCs installs by default to C:\Steam and you can fill that drive with the big sized games nowadays, but I’ve found that it’s very easy (in Windows 7/Vista) to move Steam to another drive and setup a Windows “link” folder so that the installed Steam software still uses C:\Steam, even though the files are on another drive!

The steps are:

– Move C:\Steam to the other drive (say E:\Steam). ie: copy C:\Steam to E:\ then delete C:\Steam

– Run ‘cmd.exe’ as Administrator & type the following commands into the Command window:

cd “C:\Program Files”

mklink /J Steam E:\Steam

– reboot & test

That’s the utility of the mklink command in the Windows Command Line.

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