No choice but to install HL2 on drive c?

[Slacker]

Did I miss something? I only have 3gb free:roll: on drive c: and wanted to install HL2 on a different drive, but I didnt see any way to choose the destination directory :|

 

[SynthDude2001]

Does it depend on the Steam folder or something? I only have 836MB free on my drive C myself. 😛

 

[Slacker]

That may be it, my Steam folder is on c:

I deleted a ton of stuff and now have 8gb free, as soon as it is finished defragging I am going to install it, I wonder if I can move the steam folder?

 

[gururu]

that would totally suck since my game folder is on D: 🙁

 

[Slacker]

I uninstalled steam and put the disk in, it asked for the destination directory for steam, which I set to D: then it started the HL2 install and it was defaulted to D:

 

[tallest1]

I might have to uninstall and reinstall this mofo myself. I only have 500MB left on my C drive and theres nothing left I can clean off of it

 

[Shlong]

I think you can just cut & paste the steam folder to the other drive, just delete ClientRegistry.blob after you do.

 

[NYHoustonman]

My brother had the same problem; he typed manually f:\blahblah (f being secondary HD).

 

[tallest1]

Originally posted by: Shlong
I think you can just cut & paste the steam folder to the other drive, just delete ClientRegistry.blob after you do.

omfg, I so hope thats true

 

[sswingle]

Yea. Its better than that even. I've done a complete Windows drive format with steam on the second hard drive. Loaded up Steam, put in my username/pass, and all my games were still loaded.

 

[Slacker]

Originally posted by: NYHoustonman
My brother had the same problem; he typed manually f:\blahblah (f being secondary HD).

Thats what I wanted to do, but there was no way to change the default, it looks like the steam drive is where the game has to be installed.

I just deleted all the preload crap (which I had downloaded twice since it got stuck at 96% for over a week) and just did the install off the cd's

 

[JBT]

Originally posted by: Shlong
I think you can just cut & paste the steam folder to the other drive, just delete ClientRegistry.blob after you do.

Yeah that should work.

All games install into the Steam folder so it will go where that folder is.

 

[imported_sucker]

all you have to do is uninstall steam and reinstall it on whichever partition/drive you want hl2 on.

 

[XBoxLPU]

No need to uninstall or reinstall

Exit steam

Move entire Steam folder wherever you want it, then delete the file ClientRegistry.blob, restart steam