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Install onto A drive? 2011-09-14 17:47:48 Reply

Okay, so a while back my computer fucked itself and my hard drive failed. So I got a new one. But the fucktards at the store gave me a 50 gig instead of a 500. So I went back there and made them transfer over all my shit onto a new 500 gig. Well, now I'm trying to install a game (that is on a CD). But the thing is, it's the Orange Box. So it's running through Steam. And I have no option to install it onto the A drive. Is there anyway I can change this? Or possibly make the A drive my default drive for all installations?

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How do I install the Orange Box onto my A drive?
Or how do I make the A drive my default drive?


At 11/22/10 06:51 PM, yonokowhat wrote:
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Response to Install onto A drive? 2011-09-14 17:52:05 Reply

1. Did you install your hard drive?

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Response to Install onto A drive? 2011-09-14 17:56:26 Reply

yup

Install onto A drive?


At 11/22/10 06:51 PM, yonokowhat wrote:
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: bad sign?

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Response to Install onto A drive? 2011-09-14 17:57:16 Reply

Steam will install it's games in it's own installation folder (at least on Windows), install Steam on your 'A: drive' (I doubt it's actually named that, that slot is for 3.5" floppy disks) and all will be well.

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Response to Install onto A drive? 2011-09-14 18:13:29 Reply

You'll need to reinstall Steam on your A: drive. Steam gives you no option to install to different drives because it automatically installs everything to its own directory. You may need to back up any games you have on the current drive Steam is on and then reinstall everything on the new one.


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Response to Install onto A drive? 2011-09-14 18:16:14 Reply

At 9/14/11 06:13 PM, Stevenscar wrote: You'll need to reinstall Steam on your A: drive. Steam gives you no option to install to different drives because it automatically installs everything to its own directory. You may need to back up any games you have on the current drive Steam is on and then reinstall everything on the new one.

Just did. Works now.

Thank you.


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Response to Install onto A drive? 2011-09-14 18:20:24 Reply

At 9/14/11 06:16 PM, SadisticAI wrote: Just did. Works now.

Thank you.

I actually said that first...