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I installed Arma II, Arma II OA and ARMA II PM to my E drive, which is a large regular sata mechanical drive. I want to move the DayZ mod to my drive A, which is my Sata 3 Corsair SSD.

Is this easily done? I own all steam copies of Arma II.

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You have to reinstall Steam in that drive, it's a mystery to me why you didn't do that in the first place.

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You have to reinstall Steam in that drive' date=' it's a mystery to me why you didn't do that in the first place.

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My steam install folder is over 156gb big. My ssd is 128gb and it holds battlefield 3, guild wars 2, world of warcraft ect. I can't fit every single arma II game onto the SSD. I have around 10 gbs of space left. Also around 24 games installed.

Maybe I will just have to save that space for Arma III open community Alpha if it's not possible to just move the mod.

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You have to reinstall Steam in that drive' date=' it's a mystery to me why you didn't do that in the first place.

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You most certainly do not - Simply moving the game to a different folder works fine since the game is not tied to Steam in any way.

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You have to reinstall Steam in that drive' date=' it's a mystery to me why you didn't do that in the first place.

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You most certainly do not - Simply moving the game to a different folder works fine since the game is not tied to Steam in any way.

Just OA?

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There is a program for doing this, all it does is create a sym link and shift it over so if you know how to do that then go ahead if not then find a program for it, cant remember the name of it but try steam mover in google... something along those lines should find you it. its what i done for arma2

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Use mklink /J:

First, copy over the arma 2 and arma 2 operation arrowhead folders to your SSD. Once you're sure the copying went OK you can delete them from your mechanical drive. Remember their filepaths.

E = HDD

C = SSD

Open a CMD prompt:

mklink /J "E:/path/to/steam/steamapps/common/arma 2" "C:/destination/path/arma 2"

mklink /J "E:/path/to/steam/steamapps/common/arma 2 operation arrowhead" "C:/destination/path/arma 2 operation arrowhead"

I haven't tested it with ArmA, but it has worked with other steam games.

EDIT:

OR, since it's a steam game, use SteamMover.

It does the exact same thing as the above but with a GUI:

http://www.traynier.com/software/steammover

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