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hey guys sustain me with the tutorial showing you how to move a steam game from one hard drive to another now there are quite a few reasons why you may want to do this for example if you have a setup like mine where you have a solid-state drive as well as a normal spinning hard drive and your solid-state drive is getting full like me you also may want to go ahead and install this on an external hard drive so for example if you wanna you know go between different computers wherever keep your games with you you can just install them on that so I'm going to do for you guys is give you a quick tutorial showing you how to do this and now it's going to be a little bit more complicated than just dragging and dropping now steam only allows you to install your games on your C Drive or whatever Drive you have windows installed on so let's get a little bit complicated however it's not that bad so let me go ahead give you guys a quick tutorial so the first step is is that you need to download and install whatever gaming going to do whatever you going to move rather so I'm going to be moving Bioshock today it's a great game but I think it'll be just fine on a normal hard drive so once you have installed we can go ahead and pull steam down you're going to need a couple of things now the first thing is you need to find the disk so what I'm going to do is just go in here you're going to go on go into your local disk C or again whatever drive you have windows on you come down to Program Files arrive at Program Files x86 you kind of scroll all the way down till you find steam you need to go into steam apps and you need to come into common now at this point you will see all the games that you have installed on your computer so for example I have Bioshock right here ok so once you have found the file you need to go ahead and open up another window and for example this needs to be a window on your other hard drive so for example this is my 2 terabyte drive so what I'm going to do is just simply drag-and-drop Bioshock onto my second hard drive so it's going to go ahead and copy for a little bit so I'll be right back as soon as it's done ok so it's all done so if we want to make sure we can just go over here make sure that all the files look to be in order so we just open on both sides you can see here everything looks a bad identical so the next step is to rename this folders now the course we're going to delete it but just to make sure we don't need to redownload and install everything what we're going to do is just rename it anything so this isn't Bioshock just it doesn't really matter just as long as it's not the same folder name so if there's any problem if something didn't copyright instead of having to redownload and reinstall everything we could just back to Bioshock Network just fine all right so our next step is is we need to open up the command prompt so just hit the Windows key then type in CMD then we're going to right click and open as administrator okay so once you have the command prompt open it's going to be really simple we just need to enter a simple command so what we do is type in MK Li NK backslash capital J now we need to go ahead and put a quotation mark and now what we need to do is come over to your I just like to open up the foot the files here and then click on the top little address bar so it will change it into the actual address so just ctrl C to copy it and then right click and click paste so then that will go ahead and put in well the entire file name so we can get straight to it then what you need to do is just add another backslash and then add whether the name of the game was so for example this is bioshock whatever the name of the folder was so for example as you can see here it was called just bioshock all lowercase so add that and then add another quotation mark ok so now on the second part we need to go ahead and point steam towards it we can actually open that back up now we need to appoint steam towards where a rather to point windows towards where the steam file actually is so this is going to be really simple in my case it's just eistein and Bioshock so if there's no spaces you don't have to add the quotation mark so I'm just going to paste that in here so as you guys can see here you should see something very similar should be m'kay link backslash J and then if in quotation marks and then wherever your steam file is so for example we want to create something in common where Bioshock was before and then the second part just needs to be pointing windows to where the files actually are so once you know you got done click enter and there we go it says junction created ok so as you guys can see here we go ahead and click on the Bioshock folder we actually open it up it looks like as far as windows can tell it is just in Program Files exactly where it was however if we come over to the steam file of course it is still on our external hard drive anyway guys that was a quick tutorial showing you how to move a steam game from one hard drive to another and of course there are other ways to do this there are programs allow you to do it but personally I just like doing it in the command line and it's just one line of text not all that difficult and now we've straight up about 5 6 gigs off of our solid-state drive and we've moved it over and now we can still play steam games but we've freed up a lot more space in the guys if you found this video helpful be sure to subscribe up above for all kinds of other tech related content