Steam won't let me add more drives

it won't let me select my other drives and only the one holding my os appears and i don't want to put this in bugs cause i doubt it is i'm just clueless on how to do this.
Solution:
open the drive, try make a file?
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Svenska-räv
Svenska-rävOP4w ago
It doesn’t recognize my 8tb external hard drive
HikariKnight
HikariKnight4w ago
almost always a permission issue. make sure you have permission to write to the root of the drive (im heading to sleep in a bit so might not be able to respond further)
Svenska-räv
Svenska-rävOP4w ago
How do i do that?
Solution
HikariKnight
HikariKnight4w ago
open the drive, try make a file?
Svenska-räv
Svenska-rävOP4w ago
I did but i had to run as administrator Oh i get it nvm
HikariKnight
HikariKnight4w ago
then you do not have permissions to make files there
HikariKnight
HikariKnight4w ago
fix that first since steam is run as your user, no admin permissions
Svenska-räv
Svenska-rävOP4w ago
Thanks have a nice night
HikariKnight
HikariKnight4w ago
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HikariKnight
HikariKnight4w ago
just ignore the whole formating the drive and partitions part ty
Svenska-räv
Svenska-rävOP4w ago
ok i still don't get it apparently...sorry T.T

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