So you’re running out of hard drive space (maybe on that fast-but-tiny SSD of yours), and you need to move a few of your PC games to another hard drive. Don’t uninstall and re-download them! You can actually move your games to a new drive without having to wait hours to reinstall each one.
There are many ways to do this, but in my experience, most solutions fall into one of two categories. Here’s how to each method works.
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Install Origin Games To A Different Location By Andy in Software, Video Games Now with many people using solid state hard drives or their game library may just be outgrowing their primary hard drive they need to be able to install their games to a second hard drive, a different location with more space. I just installed my second hard drive because a 250gb ssd wasnt enough. How do i pick where to install a game? I tried to google it, but i could not find anything that showed me how to.
Option One: Create Symlinks with Steam Mover
Despite its name, Steam Mover is an awesome app that will move any game—Steam, Origin, or otherwise—and play it without re-installing. It does this by creating a symbolic link at the old location, so your computer thinks everything’s in the same place—but all that space-eating data really resides on another hard drive.
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Here’s how to use it:
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That’s it. You can repeat the process with as many games as you want, and move them back at any time by re-opening Steam Mover and clicking the blue “left” arrow at the bottom to move them back.
You can also make the symlinks yourself, without Steam Mover’s help, but Steam Mover makes it incredibly simple.
Option Two: Move the Game and Direct Your Game Manager to the New Location![]()
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If you’d prefer not to download extra software, you don’t have to—both Steam and Origin have ways to “detect” installed games after you’ve moved them. You just have to perform the right steps in the right order. If you’re using Steam:
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If you’re moving an Origin game, the steps are very similar, but just a tad simpler:
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Origin Download Game To Second Hard Drive Windows 10
This method may not work as well for games installed without a manager like Steam or Origin, but for everything I tested, it worked like a charm.
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