How to Install Steam Games to External Hard Drive 

To bulk install games - Hold shift and select the games from your library list and then right click and follow instructions in the video. Peace out :D

Thanks so much. I really wanna play games but my pc is running out of space, so this helps!

You answered my question about how to do this simply and perfectly. Thank you!

Thank you, now I can play rdr2 without having to delete all of my other games since it takes up so much space 👍

Thanks for being quick and to the point while making it clear as day. My internal storage couldn't house Mass effect legendary edition so I need to use the same external drive i use on my series x

Very helpful video for those of us who only have a 512 SSD hard drive which is all used up and have to put steam games on an external hard drive just to play them, thank you.

A great tutorial that gets straight to the point 👍

Thanks man I'm building a new computer set up & I wanted to move my steam games folder to my new 2 TB hard drive but I didn't know how to. Thanks again

Hey I have a question- 1-can I save my progress of the game in the drive. 2-can I use pendrive for small games. 3-if I put my drive in another laptop/desktop, will I be able to launch the game

Just got a 2T external hard drive today, so this might be useful

I know this vid is 2 years old but I just wanted to say thanks bro I'm legit grateful to you I hit that subscribe button as soon as it worked for me 😂 can't wait to watch more of your videos 💯

So simple, but very helpful to this new pc gamer.

Do you have to change the default file location under Settings>Downloads>Steam Library Folders when you want to play a game installed on your PC? Also, is there a way to move games already installed on your PC to the external hard drive so you don't have to re-download them all over again?

Was trying to help my brother install arma 3 and it turned out all I had to do was uninstall and reinstall and choose the external hard drive lol (it wasn't installed cuz of no space but still had to uninstall tho)

Thanks bro, i have exactly 4 gig left on my pc (yes i know its extremely little) and i bought a external harddrive like a month ago and i didnt know how to use it before now, thanks

Thanks man I just got my hard drive and was confused but you really helped

i would give you a hug if i could i have like no storage on my pc my didnt know how to use a hard drive now i do you saved me

Finally, a good tutorial. Thanks a lot, super helpful :D Cool majora’s mask wallpaper too

Im curious to know how bigger games would run? something thats like 15-20gb in size? I think you should make a tutorial for open world games like gta or watchdogs (im testing as we speak lol )

This helped me so much, this video may be old but you helping out people in the future👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Thank you so much! I had gotten a hard drive for my ASUS Windows Laptop and I had to follow the instructions for this and right now Christmas too!

dude THANK YOU, my pc stopped working so i had to completely reset it. this def helped with my hdd and ssd

Bro thank you so much saved me SO MUCH TIME!

thanks man! I only have 256 gb of storage on my pc. And I was wondering why all my steam games weren't download to my 1tb external hard drive. Thanks this really helped!

Thanks for the tutorital man! I'm just wondering: What happens when you remove the external hard drive? are the games grayed out again? and when you put it back in do the games come back as playale?

thank you! i literally just submitted a refund for the game and then i found this video! forgot i had a seagate 2tb sitting around. This video helped thanks again!

Great info! A question: Given the choice for installation to a SSD system drive or a secondary HDD which will give better performance? Thanks!!

THANKS SO FUCKIN MUCH I HAVE BEEN LOKING FOR THIS THE PAST TWO DAYS. THANKS SO MUCH. I SUBSCRIBED IMEDALETLT!

If i start the steam app without the hard drive be plugged in, do i have to download the game once again?

this was very helpful, thank you.

Omg thanks I was struggling to figure out my seagate thank you so much!

I'm new to this, but could I somehow download an app I made onto a hard drive and transport that app to another computer by plugging it in?

Oh shit This helped me fix something that I’ve been working on for a year Super Duper thx

This helped me out so much! Thank you

Thanks, this will help me move my larger games onto my 2 TB Hard drive!

Thank you so much for your help. Now I don't have to worry about losing lots of space on my pc.

Thanks . great tutorial . do you recommend a certain hard drive .

Question should I install the fast and easy games onto my external hard drive or the ones that take up a lot of space aka the long ones XD?

Thank you, sir! Straight forward and easy.

thank you so much! i'm looking into getting an external harddrive and I had no idea how to use it :)

Thank you so much this honstly deserves more likes

Easy and to the point. Worked also

Thank you so much, thats so helpful!

Sir I have a question as I've downloaded steam game from my friends computer to the external hdd. But issue is can I play that game on my pc as my steam account ?

Thank you for making this video. Sea of Thieves is around 50 GB, and there is no way it was going to fit on my partitioned MacOSX/Windows 10 disk.

Thank you so much this worked perfectly!

Thank you so much man i love you ❤❤❤,you got yourself a new subsriber

thanks man i have like 300 gb storage on my laptop for games and i have a 2tb hardrive ive been looking to use now i just need to find it

Quick question. Will it be the same if my terabyte is build-in, in the computer? Because i have 1TB (1.000GB) but will it be a difference if its build-in or not?

When your external drive is faster than your 7 year old laptops drive lol

So I had gta 5 installed on my external hard drive and when I took the hard drive out and to put it back in it told me to re install the game! Please help

My OEM has a hard drive so im just gonna download my stuff on an external SSD looool doing stuff the wrong way Also i have a question is it possible to move games already on your boot drive to a external drive through the steam app or do i have to move the files somewhere else or something

nice work dude, pretty helpful video

wait so we uninstall the game from our pc than we install it in our external right? also would it keep our saved data?

Thank you buddy! This helped a lot 😃😃

for some reason every time I do this exactly how he said to do it I get this message and it stops the download I'm very confused please help "ERROR - new steam library folder cant be added while downloading"

Is it possible to transfer games to and from the hard drive easily, so I can play games on my laptop without the hard drive being connected and then putting the game back onto the hard drive when I'm done and want a new one?

Thanks man. You’re a hero.

for some reason it doesn't let me choose where to download the game

Do I have to move my save data to the external drive as well? Or will it be fine located on my internal drive?

Thanks, you explained it and got straight to the point.

if i install a game on a 1tb hdd will only the overall loading screens of the game be longer or will the performance also be affected?

If I install some games onto my external hdd do I lose whatever progress is in that game? I know there was a process for moving progress info between computers that had steam games installed on both. It was kind of a clunky way but it worked.

What if I have installed those games previously to my desktop? Do I have to uninstall and install them again to my external hard drive ?

Thanks for the tutorial, I’m now gonna beg my family for a seagate 5 tb external hard drive for Christmas.

ayyy thanks bro this was so helpful

thanks bro this helps so much

say i have a game installed on my pc. im trying to move monster hunter world (or any other game for that matter) over to my external hard drive along with the saved data for the game. i understand now that i can install my games onto the hard drive directly from my steam library which is great, but what do i do if i want to move the game without losing my progress / saves?

Hi Simon I keep getting a write error when I go through your process. Is there a reason for this?

Thank you, but can u install steam itself directly into the Hard Drive?

the question is what about games with updates? if a game comes out with an update after you install it on an eternal then what do you do plug the eternal in and try to play the game cause fallout 76 is big and i want to stick it on eternal to save space but its a live service game.

thank you so so much this answered all my questions

keep making content. nice work

this helped a lot. keep it up

did steam file mush in disk c? can we install steam app on external drive to? or just steam game?

Thanks Soo much! Really needed that.

What if the game is high graphics is it still working fine if game installed to hard drive For example like final fantasy xv or devil may cry 5

Thank a lot man this helped a lot

i tried doing this and it works for a couple of times. like i can play the game with the external plugged in. but then there will be a time that i cannot play the game and it says i need to install the game again. so, how do i solve that problem?

Thanks so much great video👍

What happens if you plug out the hard drive though? Will the game break or will it return to your laptop if you plug it back in?

Thank you so much bc I needed more storage

Can't I just copy and paste game files from steam apps folder to Seagate 1tb hard disk. And delete from steamapps. and after months when I have to play that game again I just paste back to steam apps folder

my laptop has 5gb of 28gb left. hope this tutorial works, won't know until I watch it though because youtube removed the dislike count

I would love to move my Steam but I don’t want to loose my modified GTAV game file. Will I loose it?

L.O.G Hello pal. I really hope you read this. I'm try your method but i want to explain my problem and i want to know if you could possibly help me out and if you have gone through or heard about this problem. I had made 2 steam installations. One on my main C: drive and one on my usb external hard drive. And they always worked. But yesterday afternoon, i decided to install cs:go on my external hard drive and for some reason my download would always pause. and then my steam from my external hard drive would start to freeze for a few seconds every time i clicked on it. i can still install games on my C: drive but i can't install them through my steam that i had installed on my external. i'm gonna try to install them on my external through my main steam launcher from my C: drive but i wanted to know if you know a fix to my problem. any help is appreciated.

Thanks! Just bought a 2 terabyte hard drive and it worked :)

Thanks for the vid I found 986gb of free storage :)

Will DLC download as well on the external hard drive?

I freaking love you bro thanks so much

Worked for me, thanks

every time I remove the hdd and plug it back again it always has to locate the files again which for larger games take a while

This video helped me out a lot man I thought I had wasted 150$

Helped a lot thanks

thank you so much this really helped

I'm trying to install security breach, but my hard drive's folder isn't coming up, what should I do?

Will it only play when the hard drive is plugged into the pc?

Ok i now this video is 1 year old but i have a question: If i have CS:GO installed on my internal Hard drive, and i have an external hard drive where there are other games, when CS:GO has an update where will be installed? Internal or external? hope someone sees this!

Thanks you man (new subscribe👍)

Son, you a totally awesome. Thank you