is it possible to make a virtual hard drive and put steam on it?

[Mouse droidz 21]

I have to much stuff in my hard drive and i was wondering if i can make a virtual drive and put steam onto it (or change steams directory and put it there) so Steam doesn't use a lot of space on my normal drive. is this possible?

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[dkamm65]

I don't know about virtual drives, but you could make a new partition for just Steam and set it to be whatever size limit you want.

[Mouse droidz 21]

I don't know about virtual drives, but you could make a new partition for just Steam and set it to be whatever size limit you want.

i found this website that shows you how to make a virtual drive:
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5291/how-to-create-a-virtual-hard-drive-in-windows-7/

[Rainzx¹]

Yea you could create one, but it would still take up space on your normal harddrive, it just looks like its not.

[Ben Grapevine]

A virtual drive does not add more physical space to your computer so you would either have to buy more space with another hard drive or partition your current one to only isolate steam

[Mouse droidz 21]

A virtual drive does not add more physical space to your computer so you would either have to buy more space with another hard drive or partition your current one to only isolate steam

thing is i have a laptop

[devildogelite]

thing is i have a laptop

The hdd is one of the few things that a lot of laptops allow you to upgrade.

[Brickman]

or you could get an external hard drive and bring it with you to whatever computer you want to play games on

[Mouse droidz 21]

or you could get an external hard drive

i was reading in a steam support question about moving the directory to another place in the warning it said:

"It is not recommended that you install Steam to an external hard drive due to potential performance issues"

[NalNalas]

Why would you need to do that?