How To Download A Game Onto An External Hard Drive

Select the destination drive from the drop down menu.

How to download a game onto an external hard drive. In file explorer on windows 10 you need to go to the location of your existing steam games library. Kckrug1994 asked the answer line forum if a game or application would will work if installed onto an external drive. Open the choose location for install dropdown and select your external drive.

This is an updated article to reflect the changes in windows 10 anniversary edition. So find the game directory in question by default it ll be under c program files x86 ubisoft ubisoft game launcher games and copy it to your new drive. Open windows explorer and create a new folder on the external hard drive.

Select the app you want. The cool thing is you can make windows 10 keep huge games or apps to a larger usb flash drive or sd card. To copy it just literally drag the whole thing to your external drive then go grab a beverage.

Connect your external hard drive to your pc. If you install a game under one drive letter than unplug the external hard drive then plug it back in and it gets assigned another drive letter then the game will be unplayable under that new drive letter and will either have to be reinstalled or you will have to move things around until the external hard drive gets back to the original drive letter it was originally assigned. Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click select.

On the main install window click next and the game will begin to download. Move game to external drive. Click the move button.

Allow the game to finish downloading and play it. On the next window that opens click ok and do not change the name of the folder that steam has set. It would probably work in most cases but expect problems.