Installing Game on Win 7 secondary HDD

[Bocephus]

Noob Question...
I have Win 7 OS installed on main HDD and second HDD is formatted with nothing on it. How do i get a game disc to go onto the secondary HDD (the one that has nothing on it)? And of course I'm using an optical drive that Tom doesnt like.

Im using this HDD as a mass storage HDD to store all files, folders and programs that arent Os or office type.

thanks in advance

 

[NastyFighter]

Im not sure what you exactly mean but if you want to install software on an other HDD, you have to change the install path while installing the software. You have to pick custom install at some point and then set your install directory to the HDD/folder you want the program to be installed on. Some programmes sometimes dont allow you to install them on any other but your main drive.

Hope that answered your question.

 

[yassarikhan786]

In addition to the above, if you have Steam, then as far as I know you can only install games on the drive Steam is installed on. However, with Origin (essentially EA's version of Steam) you can change the download location.

 

[Goldskis45]

This seems more like something Google can solve in .00146 seconds... Not really forum worthy?..

 

[SavageCupcake]

with the latest steam update you can install games to different hard drives/partitions found it handy so far think you might have to enable steam beta updates mind.

 

[andrewmchugh]

In addition to the above, if you have Steam, then as far as I know you can only install games on the drive Steam is installed on. However, with Origin (essentially EA's version of Steam) you can change the download location.

You can move them to another drive with a symbolic link.

1. Download / install the game as normal.
2. Note the games name in the common folder I will generically call it **GAME**
   I call the primary drive C and the secondary drive E, you may have to substitute E.
   [32bit] C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\**GAME**
3. Move it over from the (primary drive)
   [32bit] C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\**GAME**
   [64bit] C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\**GAME**
   to another drive. I used;
   [32bit] C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\**GAME**
   [64bit] E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\**GAME**
   
   So that it looks nice and clean.
4. Open CMD as Admin (right click and then run as administrator)
5. Enter the line for your OS below to change directory to the steam common folder
   
   [32bit] cd C:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common
   [64bit] cd C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common
6. Enter the line for your OS below to create the shortcut(symbolic link)
   [32bit] mklink /D "**GAME**" "E:\Program Files\Steam\steamapps\common\**GAME**"
   [64bit] mklink /D "**GAME**" "E:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\**GAME**"

Some notes

• This works fine on external drives, if you un-plug it the game will be "unavailable" in steam until you plug it back in.

http://www.overclock.net/t/916508/h...es-on-multiple-drives-using-cmd#post_12031431

 

[yassarikhan786]

You can move them to another drive with a symbolic link.



http://www.overclock.net/t/916508/h...es-on-multiple-drives-using-cmd#post_12031431

Nice.