How To Download Pc Games Onto External Hard Drive

This is an updated article to reflect the changes in windows 10 anniversary edition.

How to download pc games onto external hard drive. Open windows explorer and create a new folder on the external hard drive. When you plug in your hard drive open my computer and there you should be able to see one of the drives that will be labeled as external harddrive or something along those lines. Select the root of the external drive to install the game and click select.

If you have simple games that do not require much bandwidth from the drive then it is ok to put games on your external hard drive and play them but if you put a modern game onto your external drive with hd graphics and complex maps then you will suffer more in the load times for areas and if the game references the drive all the time then you will suffer game slow downs. On the next window that opens click ok and do not change the name of the folder that steam has set. The cool thing is you can make windows 10 keep huge games or apps to a larger usb flash drive or sd card.

You can move a game that s installed on an internal drive to an. Open steam then click steam settings downloads steam library folders add library folder choose the folder on the external hard drive. The names vary with the software but look for the company who makes the hard drive s name.

Open the choose location for install dropdown and select your external drive. Move game to external drive. Kckrug1994 asked the answer line forum if a game or application would will work if installed onto an external drive.

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