There is no option like browse when installing, allowing the program to be installed on another drive. This was not a problem with Fallout 3.
This should be addressed as there are a lot of people that use a small boot partition and install elsewhere.
A lot of High end game machienes use a small SSD boot drive, and a 2nd large drive for programs.
I use a Raid 1, for the speed, on the drive where my programs are installed.
Note: It is not a good idea to have the Boot Partion on a Raid drive, so my Boot Partition very small.

I think this was a very bad move on Bethesda's part.

If someone knows Please tell me how to change the Default installation Partition,

It only install where you told it to install Steam. If you want it installed on a different drive, uninstall it AND Steam, and reinstall. Be sure to tell it to put Steam on a different drive. The game always goes into a folder under the Steam folder.

install steam on another drive.
Download, install.
Bam.

In fact if you already have teh filezors copy steam directory and put it anywhere. Warning; usb 2.0 is not a good idea but it will work, just not very well. USB 3.0 and sata are the same, usb 1.1 or 1.0 kill yourself now.

Who said anything about running it off a usb drive?

Anyway, I agree this is svck. I too use a particular drive for my OS and I have a raptor I keep my games on. Usually you can pick your location, and you shouldn't have to move steam all over the place just to install your game to a different drive.

Try this? -

https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7418-YUBN-8129

-HD

Annoying. Have some older steam apps on second hard drive, wanted to install Fallout:NV on new (small) SSD, had to delete or move the old steam install. I deleted.

That's fine that there is a way to do it, but it is a stupid unnecessary step (or 5) that should have been taken care of a long time ago. Most people are accustomed to picking the install directory when they install a game. It is a lot easier than having to worry about what hard drive you installed steam on 3 years ago.

I completely agree with you. If Steam is all about 'consolidating the gaming experience' and 'creating a social community' and setting up a walled-garden-like standard, and all that other marketing BS, fine. I much prefer Steam to 'Games for Windows Live' (puke) and other 'game management' services, but it would be nice if it let you choose installation paths, I don't see how that would be too complicated.

-HD

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I install all my games on my HDD and then copy the game files to my SSD using junctions to point to them. It allows you to keep the install integrity intact but use the SSD to run you games. When done/bored with a game, you delete the SSD part leaving room for new games. Then if you want to play that game again later, you simply copy the files back to the SSD from the HDD install and re-add the junction. Very handy for us SSD owners!

See the following link for details.

http://schinagl.priv.at/nt/hardlinkshellext/hardlinkshellext.html

I have 2 junction points set up to reroute browser cache and log files to old HD. If another game is released via steam I'll probably have to create a 3rd, but for the moment it was easier to simply reinstall on SSD (still running XP and older steam install hadn't been used in a couple years).

That does sound like a very convenient solution, probably won't work very well on XP though (junction points in XP seem to be more of a hack than a feature). I'll be upgrading to win7 when software becomes available that gives me a valid reason to Thanks!