Move Steam To a Different Disk

Steam If you hadn’t noticed, Half-Life 2 : Episode Two has just arrived. I’ve been waiting for this since Episode One (as have many thousands of gamers, I’m sure), and what happens when I want to finally buy it on Steam? Turns out I had stupidly installed Steam in the default location, and my C: disk partition has pretty much no space left, so I can’t download anything there. I have more free space on another disk, so I decided to move the Steam installation to another partition. Luckily this can be done without reinstalling it.

To move Steam to another location, first exit Steam and then move the entire Steam folder (it was “C:\Program Files\Steam” in my case) to the destination folder. Delete the “ClientRegistry.blob” file found in the Steam folder and run Steam from the new location. Steam will reconstruct the deleted file and everuthing should be OK.

I hope this is helpful to the HL2 fans out there :)

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7 Responses to “Move Steam To a Different Disk”

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    Programme verschieben - Trojaner-Board Says:
    January 26th, 2008 at 6:39 pm

    [...] from the new location. Steam will reconstruct the deleted file and everuthing should be OK. Quelle:ø Move Steam To a Different Disk | W-Shadow.com ø Falls es Verstndnisprobleme gibt, melde Dich nochmal. Aber wie gesagt, ich wrde vorher [...]

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    Atomsk Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 9:53 pm

    Thank god i stumbled upon this post, because I was going to do really wild things with my Steam setup… Luckily I had only moved the folder as told when I found this.

    Thank you!

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    White Shadow Says:
    July 18th, 2008 at 10:01 pm

    Glad I could help :)

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    Ally Says:
    July 28th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

    Thanks a lot :) I was afraid that I have to redownload all my games :(

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    Tyler Durden Says:
    September 3rd, 2008 at 7:16 pm

    Yeaa. You are the man.

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    NekroJester Says:
    September 27th, 2008 at 8:37 pm

    This method worked great wen i put steam on my external HD. but wen i try buying a game thru steam i get an error saying steam://purchase/(id number) Application not found. is there a way 2 fix this?

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    White Shadow Says:
    September 27th, 2008 at 8:49 pm

    Hmm, haven’t really encountered this kind of error. Sorry, I can’t help much here.

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