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Hard drive not recognized by Steam

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cod-alpha Posted messages 45 Status Member -  
 bidibule -
Hello,

I recently bought a new 2TB hard drive to add to my PC because I'm almost out of space on my main 1TB hard drive.

My new hard drive has been installed correctly on my PC.
This new drive is mainly for games, but my problem is that it is not recognized by Steam, which is quite strange.
So I can't transfer my games to this new drive.

If anyone has a solution, thanks ;)

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    Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   9 895
     
    Hi,

    Make sure the hard drive format is NTFS and not FAT32.

    Files larger than 4 GB cannot be copied to a FAT32 hard drive, which I think is the problem with Steam.
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    1. cod-alpha Posted messages 45 Status Member
       
      The disk format is indeed NTFS

      In Disk Management I have:

      ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Disk 0 | Reserved for the system ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | (C:)
      Basic | 100MB NTFS ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ | 930GB NTFS
      931 GB | Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition) | Healthy (Boot, etc ...
      Online |
      --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
      Disk 1 | Disk (E:)
      Basic | 1863 GB NTFS
      1863 GB | Healthy (Primary Partition)
      Online |
      --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------


      When I initialized the disk, it seems I didn't check "GPT Partition" and I don't know if it's possible to go back :/
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      1. Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   9 895 > cod-alpha Posted messages 45 Status Member
         
        Apparently it's good.

        Look here for the data transfer.
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      2. cod-alpha Posted messages 45 Status Member > Papounet17000 Posted messages 26460 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         
        So it's good, the problem was just the folders created for Steam on the new hard drive

        You needed to create the folders, Program files>steam>steam apps like on the main drive, move the game file into steam apps and then install the game in the same folder.
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    2. Seb_5958 Posted messages 1 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention   4
       

      To solve this problem, I went to Steam/Settings/Downloads/STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS. Then I clicked on the ( + ) button at the top right. This allows you to select the new drive as a storage drive for Steam.

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      1. bidibule > Seb_5958 Posted messages 1 Registration date   Status Member Last intervention  
         

        A big thank you, this "tip" worked for me

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