If you don't know how to move Steam games to SSD, you can learn the importance of this operation and master 4 effective ways, as well as answer other questions related to Steam. Please read on.
"I recently purchased a 1TB sized SSD and wanted to move the Steam games that were originally installed on the HDD to this new SSD. However, when I tried to use copy and paste it didn't work at all and my friend suggested me to delete Steam and download it again. But I don't really want to do that because I have a lot of games on Steam with a total size of over 500GB and reinstalling it is too time consuming and there is no way to be sure if some other problems will occur. Can anyone give some other suggestions? I just need to migrate Steam as an app."
Steam, a digital distribution platform for video games developed by Valve Corporation in 2003, has become a popular gaming platform worldwide, and many users are accustomed to downloading a large number of games via Steam. As solid state drives (SSDs) become less expensive, many users wish to move previously downloaded Steam games to a new SSD, partly due to a lack of storage space on the original hard drive (Steam is installed on local disk C by default), and partly to reduce game load times, as SSDs offer the following advantages over traditional mechanical hard drives (HDDs).
Some of these users, however, will have some difficulties in upgrading their hard drive, such as not knowing how to move Steam games to SSD.If you are also troubled by this, please follow these methods to solve the problem.
How to move Steam games from HDD to SSD?You can do it in the following 4 ways.
In the second half of 2021, Steam adds a new feature called Space Manager, which allows you to see all the games on your local disk and how much storage space they are taking up, making it easier to manage. It also allows you to quickly move single or multiple games to any other location, making it easier than the traditional "Move Install Folder" feature. If you want to move your Steam games to SSD, please follow these steps.
Note: You can navigate to this path to confirm that the folder was successfully created.
Note: If you have more than one game you want to move, please check all of them.
Steam Library Manager is a tool that helps you manage your Steam library, it lists all the libraries on your computer and the games in them, you can move single or multiple Steam games to any location with this application. It also means that you can move Steam games to SSD, follow the steps below. Please note that you should close Steam before using Steam Library Manager.
Note: If you have multiple games you want to move, drag them separately.
Windows has a built-in copy and paste feature that helps you move your entire Steam folder, which means you can move Steam games to your SSD. You'll need to close Steam before you start, here are the detailed steps to do so.
Steam Space Manager and Steam Library Manager are too cumbersome, and the latter even requires additional download, which is not very friendly for beginners; while Windows 10 or Windows 11 copy and paste is slow, once you need to migrate more games, then it will take a lot of your time and effort, and may also be unavailable. So is there an easy and fast way to do it? Here we recommend you to use AOMEI Backupper Standard for disk cloning, which can quickly clone all the contents of the source disk (including all Steam games) to the target disk to save a lot of time and effort.
AOMEI Backupper Standard provides you with free and professional disk cloning service, you can quickly clone files, folders and applications such as Steam games from the source disk to the target disk with just a few clicks, and if there is a system file on the source disk, you can also clone the system file to the target disk. Next, we will take the system disk as the source disk (Steam's default installation location) and introduce you the disk cloning steps in detail. But before that, you need to do the following preparations.
Step 1. Open the AOMEI Backupper Standard, click Clone > Disk Clone.
Tip:
Disk clone only supports 2 types in the free edition. One is MBR to MBR (system disks), and the other is data disk clone. If you need to clone GPT to GPT, MBR to GPT, or GPT to MBR, you can download the professional version.
Step 2. In the Source Disk window, select the disk where the Steam game is stored as the source disk and tap Next.
Step 3. In the Destination Disk window, select the new SSD as the destination disk, and click Next.
Step 4. Check the SSD alignment checkbox to accelerate the reading and writing speed of the target SSD. Confirm your operations and click Start Clone.
Notes:
In addition to disk clone, you can use AOMEI Backupper for more features:.
Apart from moving Steam games to SSD, if you have any other questions about Steam, please read the following in detail, which will answer some common questions about Steam.
Usually there are no problems with Mobile Steam, but at some point, there can be some installation errors, in which case you can follow these methods to fix them.
Note: If a game becomes corrupted after a Steam move, you can have Steam automatically find and replace the corrupted file by verifying the integrity of the local data by.
Run Steam>Open Steam Collection Library>Right click on the corrupted game>Select Content>Switch to Local Archive tab>Tap on Verify Game Archive Integrity and finally wait for this process to complete.
If you want to move Steam to SSD, please refer to the following steps.
If you don't know how to move your Steam games to SSD, please read this article in detail and follow the 4 methods provided in it to make sure your Steam games will open properly after the move. Note that the first 3 methods have some disadvantages, not suitable for beginners and will consume a lot of your time and effort, so it is more recommended to use the last method, namely AOMEI Backupper Standard's disk cloning function.
AOMEI Backupper Standard has a clear and easy-to-use interface, you can quickly clone all the contents of the source disk (including Steam games) to other disks in just a few simple steps. In addition, the software can also provide you with system backup, disk restore, file backup and other functions to provide comprehensive protection for your computer data.