🚀 go-pugleaf

On Fri, 25 Nov 2016 22:06:57 -0700, PW
<emailad...@ifIremember.com> wrote:

>On Thu, 24 Nov 2016 18:31:07 +0000 (UTC), rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca
>(Ross Ridge) wrote:
>
>>Ross Ridge wrote:
>>>Another option is to skip the copying step and just run the Steam
>>>executable in the Windows 7 folder.  The will save disk space and probably
>>>won't cause any problem for Steam itself, but might cause problems with
>>>some games if they hard code the install directory in some configuration
>>>file.
>>
>>PW  <emailad...@ifIremember.com> wrote:
>>>Thanks Ross and Spalls.  But I do not have the HD space to move the
>>>huge Steam games directory to another drive.  I certainly do not want
>>>them to take up space on the new Win10 OS drive.
>>>
>>>I was hoping that I could get Steam to simply point to where the games
>>>are in Win7. 
>>
>>I also explained how to do that.  You need to read the entire post.
>>
>>					Ross Ridge
>
>
>*---
>
>Your suggestions did not work Ross.  It does not seem possible to have
>Steam working on a dual boot, different OS systems on the same PC.
>
>"On this version fo Windows Steam service somponent must be installed"
>That did no complete.  Then I tried to start a game and received
>"Failed to start game.  Missing executable"  So I found the .exe for
>the game and Steam started to download the entire game which I will
>not go through as I do not have the bandwith to install every game in
>my library again.
>
>I found nothing helpfull by Googling.
>
>Thanks for trying to help me.
>
>-paulw

1TB external USB hard drives are $50-60. Back up your Steam folder
(and other stuff you want to keep) and just start fresh with Windows
10.

After all the aggravation you go through to make this work, you're
still going to just wind up with a kludge you have to fix later.