moving steam data from old windows 7 hdd to new windows 8 hdd

dragosanni

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Mar 4, 2013
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my old windows 7 pc has been on its last legs for a while so an upgrade was in order.
i figured the fastest way to move the old data to the new hdd was to connect both hdd's into the new build and simply copy the steam folder across.
this didnt work and resulted in my new hdd becoming unaccessible.
any insight will be greatly appreciated as this is my first build and im somewhat uneducated in these maters.