Moving steam from HDD to HDD

[Mrthorp]

i have a 250 GB HDD drive on my machine now. with all my steam games, i pretty much fill it. I bought a nice 1.5 TB drive. id like to throw steam on there, and D/L my games again.
I should just have to move folder from drive to drive right? then maybe tell the shortcut where the .exe went?

anyone done this before? any issues i should know about? thx.

 

[whatsup1396]

you should just be able to put in your new HDD, download a new client of steam, and then sign in and download your games from there.

 

[Supernova1138]

If you don't have steam on your system drive/partition you could always change the letter of your old drive, give the new drive the old drive's former letter, and simply cut and paste the steam directory to your new drive.

 

[Mrthorp]

i know i could just reinstall, but 120+GB takes a while. id rather just copy. already got it figured out.
the original post was not that imformative after re-reading. i have like 250 GB of games, deleted well like 130GB of because i didnt play that often, and performance was slow.

i didnt want to re load all 250 GB of games. the inly issue i ran into was steam thought the new drive was a new machine, so i had to sign in with special code to access account.

now, i have mygames, music, movies on there, and still less than 50% "woot"