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Install and Run Steam Games To/from a Different Partition (Win7)

  1. Navigate to your Steam installation directory and cut and paste the "steamapps" subfolder to a subfolder on your other partition. (e.g. X:\SteamInstalls) Make sure Steam is not running before you do this.
  2. With your new path in place (e.g. X:\SteamInstalls\steamapps), open a new Command Prompt. (Run -> cmd.exe).
  3. Windows 7 (and Vista IIRC) comes with a handy symbolic link and junctioning utility a la Unix. This will allow us to symbolically link our new game installation location with where the Steam client perceives it to be. Type the following in the prompt and hit Enter:

mklink /D "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps" "X:\SteamInstalls\steamapps"

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