How To Install Games On Your Secondary Hard Drive - Updated Version 

For instructions on how to do this with the XBOX app then watch this video here, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-jxmHrCPXaaY.html

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amazing dude i was struggling so much having to delete other games just to play one this was very helpful

really happy with the result man you are straight foward, and it was a really good tutorial keep it up.

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Ngl I actually gotta take the time and say I appreciate the no bs straight to the point you promised

thanks alot man rly needed that been strugling for days uninstalling games to make space for other game u a life saver

I’m glad this was so straightforward thanks 👏

What a guy! This is exactly what I needed help with. Added an SSD to my PC and this helped me understand how partitions work. Appreciate it!

a year later he still comes though i was fr going to beat my stuff cuz how mad i was i had no space thank you dude

Direct and to the point. Nice job brother.🙂

You bro are an angel. Ive been trying to install Cs2 on my pc but 20% through it said no sufficient space. I then searched on yt and you popped up. God bless you 🙏

Dude thank you, I was going to install Stardew Valley but my main drive is nearly full. I didn't look carefully at the set up. I clicked on "options" and it said choose where to install, thank you!!

Only thing im confused about is will the save files/shader cashe for games installed on the new ssd still go to/pull from my main ssd since thats where the folders were originally placed (most of my saves are stored in the user folder not in the game file I believe)? And can that cause performance issues?

Thanks for the video. Just what I was looking for. Subscribed

so i just bought a new ssd and whiped my old hdd to use it as a secondary drive, I instaled windows, and the drivers on the ssd and instaled a video game on the hdd and the video game is runing mutch slower than it used to ,when i used that hdd as a primary drive. dose this hapen?

watched about 10 videos and this is the only one that helped

To the point, easy to follow. Thank you.

It’s taking some of my storage in local disk C and I check my other local disk D and it’s not taking the GB from that one I have SteamLibrary in local disk D but why is it taking the GB from my local disk C instead of local disk D? Is that normal I’m just curious?

Thanks man, i litterally only needed to know what you said between 2:45 and 2:50 ❤

Thank so much for the perfect quick simple video

Ily so much I swr down I've looked for hours and URS ACC makes sense and saved me ❤️❤️❤️

What about the Xbox app I’ve been trying to install ark servival evolved but w every time I use my games d that’s completely empty it says I can’t use it and when it does let me it dosent even get to 1% it stays at 138mb out of 170gigs

If I own a game on steam and download it on an external hardrive, can I switch the hardrive between two PC's?

if i have 1 tb of primary storage and get a 4 tb of secondary device. does that mean i have 5 TB to store games and other stuff? or is it only one, i get the hang of it but im still a bit confused. can you help me out?

I plan on having 2 separate ssd's, one for OS, and the other for my games. Should i then install all my programs (firefox, spotify, steam, epic games, blizzard) on the OS drive or on the Games drive?

How do you do it on ea games because it does not work for me!

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i need help here... when i install games on my D:Drive why is C:Drive going down? i have on C: 70,9 and now 70,4 why is GAME using C:drive ?

Yo dows anyone know if it runs rlly slows like instead of 120fps only 30 or is it like istead 120 only 100

TYSM this rlly helped me u are the best

Question here. So I got a new Predator secondary hard drive with 1TB of space. So the thing is that when I install a game or any program, the game or program sometimes frozes, or doesn’t do anything. I reinstalled and verified the installation of the games multiple times and nothing. Sometimes I got an error saying that some files are corrupt. What should I do?

when i download something on another drive for steam it keeps filling up the c drive what do i do?

I install my games on a ssd but somehow my games run slower than on a hhd, could there be something wrong with my hard drive? Graphics card is no problem because i got a 4080

Great video and super helpful! Thanks

i just installed a new hdd in my pc, it shows in this pc, it is formated, online, etc, but it doesnt show me that i can install on it from steam

Will this work downloading Elite Dangerous? (the original Frontier version not the Steam/Epic version)

i have installed on the hard drive but it say that in need to install but when i tried it it says that its already installed

when i put something to download on my ssd right before it finishes it pauses and when i preww resume it goes from the begining

Thanks a lot I really needed to figure this out

I have one question, on steam I've already downloaded a game but it needs to update, but there's no option to download it in a different file. Please someone let me know how to fix this.

im on the newest version of steam and it dose not allow me to chose which drive

Very informative video, I am curious as to PC games on disk, windows 11 won’t give install location option, well, not that I can see.

this helped, thank you for sharing!

how much slower would it run on an external harddrive? Most places I've looked indicate little to no difference, beside surely the original harddrive has an impact compared to external, which could be better or in the case I'm thinking a 500GB HDD in my laptop over a 1TB SSD which I would start using as an external harddrive

THANK YOU this was so helpful

thanks man. I always hated that I had so little GB and couldn't play newer games with higher GB but now I can do it thanks man

I did this but when I hit play the game looks like it trys to open but it does not open games if i try to open games on my older drive it works fine

Okay but do I have to manually setup new file folders? Or are they automatically created? Where do the save files go on the secondary drive? Or will they save on my boot drive? If I'm playing games and want to save progress or make multiple save files do they go on my main drive? Or game drive? When I install steam does it go on the main drive and will all the games go on the second drive? And do the game saves go on the second drive? Can someone clear this up for me

this video is very useful but 1 question, when i download things to my secondary storage (D) the game starts downloading fine, fully downloads and then when i go to launch the game (any game or app downloaded on the (D) one) it js doesnt launch

Much easier then the videos I saw before

Thanks for making this easy

this helped so much thanks😄

I want with riot i want to download valor ant but on main i have only 30 gb Wich isnt enough

I'm trying to install epic games launcher and it keeps trying to download to my C drive what do I do?

How do you install games on a D: drive on the xbox app?

dude i've been trying to figure this out for AGES since my pc is dying. One thing though, is there a way to move programs to a hard drive

Whenever i try to put it into a different file location it resumes and dosent let me put it anywhere

Thanks man really helped me out

I have a problem where I downloaded Fortnite on my external harddrive with no problem but when i disconnected the external harddrive, realizing It was making my computer way slower. It wouldnt let me redownload the EPIC games installer on my C: drive because it was looking for my external harddrive. I am writing this comment because I'm wondering if you guys know any fixes to this please reply and thank you.

how to run a game and save it in external hdd hard drive

so this didnt solve the issue im having after moving these over i cant run fortnite bc a outdated graphics card i am running nvidia and i moved all program files and program files(x86) folders and there content over to the newer drive hoping that to fix the issue i even went to chrome and into its settings and changed the download folder to the main page of the new drive and it wont run from that drive it wants to like you said pull from the C: drive and says that "insufficient storage" in which im already aware and is why im trying to move it to the other drive to allocate space on that drive this is my one and only issue im having is not being able to move nvidia over or should i instead clear space by moving all my games to the newer driver via copy paste then delete them off the main and then try again to update it bc i feel the main system files that help run the computer or have anything to do with the main functioning of the computer all have to remain on solid state drive like you were saying which in my opinion makes sense i am just new and unaware in this spectrum ngl

This helps so much u saved my life🙏🏾

Now i got a game that the installer even gives me options just like steam and epic to choose the drive i install it in. Problem is, when i start the game it needs to install extra data, but instead of the drive i chose in the first place to install the game, it takes up the C drive and i run out of space and the install stops and i can't do nothing but uninstall it back to get my c drive space back. and what is also weird is , it says i only needed like 8 gigs of space to install the extra data. what boggles my mind is, if it needs 8 gigs, even if i choose my c drive, i would still have more than enough space for it, but instead it takes like double the storage and still that wasn't enough space!!! Is there anything i can do to fix that?

Thanks this helped a lot

Thanks for the help!

bro thanks for making it simple finally ty so much

How do I make is so a game I have on local disk (c:) updates onto windows (D:)

Thanks helped me a lot!!

Very helpful. Thanks 🙏🏻

thanks helped me a lot bc i knew nothing about this

Thanks this helped me because i just got a new 1TB

Thank this helped me so much

Actually Thankyou so much I thought I was gonna be stuck without enough space

can import from files already downloaded i mean can i import in this launcher?

When I do that my pc starts acting weird, I wanted to install gta v and the game wont install and it like freezes and I cant close the installer, if I manage to it wont get back in it, hell sometimes my whole widows aint responding and I dont know why, I cant install big games on there and I have no idea why.

thank you so much your a hero bro

Is dose not give me the option to do that for some reason

thank you i was doing this for 2 hours

thanks man helped alot

it's only letting me choose the primary window (C:), no other options available

Love you man u r a life saver

can you play honkai star rail and genshin impact in a external hard drive

Thanks bro this helps a lot

But when i remove and plug my external hdd when i wanna play, the game doesn't pop up in quick launch in epic, it asks to install when i click it, it verifies the game then the game is added to quick launch any solution BTH?

I’m new to the pc world so can u explain how do I move existing games to my d drive (my c drive is in disk 0 and my d drive is in disk 1-idk if that matters) I barely have anything downloaded and it’s almost filled and that makes it impossible for me to update my GeForce. Plz make a vid solving this problem

Thanks bro it helped me so much

Thank you this helped so much😭😭

The thing is it stops downloading for no reason and on steam it says "reserving space" and stops idk how to fix that

Is it possible to transfer an already downloaded program to a secondary hard drive? I have a version of Sketchup that I like on an older laptop. I would like that version on a secondary drive instead of downloading their current version.

It does give that option on steam pls help

thank you very helpful

What if it doesn’t say choose install location and just install failed

Thanks man!

how do i do this on epic games to install fortnite, i have my primary drive which is 120gb then my secondary drive which is 500gb and i need fortnite on my second drive

ty bro i was worried that my c drive would fill up and i wouldnt be able to use my other drive

Best explanation ever

Thank you so much!!!

Woww thanks man. You are the MAN. 😎

will my game run slower if i download it on D drive?