Move Steam games from OS drive to second internal hard drive

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So, all my Steam games are installed on my OS drive, and I now have two 750GB drives I can use for anything. I am going to be using one for music, maybe FLAC but unsure yet (something lossless). The second I was looking at using for all my games, but steam is already installed on my OS drive.
My first question, can I easily migrate all the games to a new hard drive with any issues with files not finding things (directory path)? Or, do I just need to uninstall everything and re-download steam and install it to the new hard drive? The second one will take some time (many games), but if it is the easiest, then I am not worried about the time.

Thanks.
 
Copy steam directory to the new drive, reinstall the steam MSI.
It will show everything as preloaded and ready to go. :)
Plus, no more annoying DL's from reloaded games.
 
You don't even need to reinstall it.

Just move the steam folder to your new location and run the steam.exe....that's it.
 
Met-AL said:
You don't even need to reinstall it.

Just move the steam folder to your new location and run the steam.exe....that's it.
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But then you don't get the main shortcuts without re-finding the directories. I'd say its easier just to run the steam install again and point it towards the opposite drive, redoes all the shortcuts and start menu items.
 
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