Steam and dota on SSD and rest of my games on HDD?

Can I do this?

Hi,

You should be able to, but its a bit fiddly to set up. You would need to link two steam library folders in your steam client, one on your SSD and one on the HDD, then you need to choose to install DOTA on to the SSD library and all of your other games on the HDD.

Yeah, I take it I have to uninstall Dota 2 and reinstall in SSD?

I would do it that way, but you could just copy the games files from the other library. I tend to just re-install games to my SSD library but my internet is relatively fast, for some people copying would be easier.

Probably just going to reinstall, got my broadband upgraded so speed shouldn't be an issue. Thanks

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I currently have this as my set up for a couple of games on my SSD:

the C:\ is my SSD and that was the default steam location.
the D:\ drive is my 1TB WD Blue and all I did was click [Add Library Folder] and made a new folder in the root of my HDD.
I am assuming you just got the SSD and want to migrate your games over.
You just need a program called Steam Mover. Works really well. Once you have that new games folder created you can start a game download in that location and let steam make all the necessary folders like the steamapps>common>[game folders]
Then you can cancel the download and the folders will remain. Just use steam mover to select all the games you want to transfer into the common folder and select the blue right arrow. Then just wait as the files transfer.


You will need to then go back into steam and simply start downloading the game and make sure you select the steam folder that is on the other hard drive. Steam will automatically register the game as full downloaded after this. I have done this many times after about 3 or so OS re-installs.

Here is the link to Steam Mover by the way LINK

I basically just deleted my steam folder excluding the steam.exe and steamapps folder to my ext hdd, then I'm going to move them back to a fresh 1tb HDD, and launch the steam.exe in the HDD, then verify game cache or download games if necessary. But how can I have just the steam application and dota on ssd and rest on the HDD. If i was to move the executable and the steam apps folder to the ssd, it will move all games over and I dont have the space.

When you download a game from steam, it asks you which drive you would like to install to.

Yes I know how to do that but that's not the problem, I have the steam.exe and steamapps folder on my ext HDD, but I was wondering if I could just put the steam application on the ssd and the games on the HDD. If I run the exe in the ssd and move the steam apps to the HDD, would that work? Your method only applys when you already have steam installed in the desired drive.

Yes move the steam folder where you want and double click the .exe file or create a desktop shortcut. If the game is in that folder and doesn't launch verify the integrity of the file. The other games installed that you want to transfer, google a utility to do it. There are several ways to do it. I believe one is mentioned in the post above.

Another easy way is to just make steam think the game folder is in its folder by creating a symbolic link