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Move Steam games to a third HDD?

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7/16/12 at 8:38pm
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It's all steam's fault. They give you these amazing sales and make you feel bad that you didn't get them really cheap frown.gif. biggrin.gif So anyways I have filled up my SSD with games, so I downloaded Steam Tool to link games to my second HDD. Now I bought like another 15 games and I have also filled up that HDD. I have a third HDD and need to move some games over there, but I do not know how I would do that. So my question is, how do you link steam games to a third HDD?
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7/16/12 at 9:16pm
All you have to do is copy your steam folder over to the new drive. Uninstall Steam. Reinstall Steam and make sure you point it to the new drive when it asks for the directory. After install steam will re-verify everything. And you will be good to go. biggrin.gif
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7/16/12 at 9:18pm
Here's what Steam says:
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Moving Your Steam Installation https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7710-tdlc-0426
Warning:

It is highly recommended that you create a backup of your SteamApps folder before attempting this process. Neglecting to do so may result in a loss of all of your game content should something go wrong.

If you're low on space on the drive you have Steam installed, you can move the Steam folder to a different location. Here's an example of how to move the Steam installation between two hard drives:

Log out and exit Steam
Navigate to the folder where Steam is installed (by default: C:\Program Files\Steam\)
Delete all of the files and folders except the SteamApps folder and Steam.exe
Cut and paste your Steam folder to the new location, for example: D:\Games\Steam\
Launch Steam
Steam will briefly update and then you will be ready to play
All future game content will be downloaded to the new folder D:\Games\Steam\Steamapps\
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