If Steam is installed on a seperate partition from windows, can I reinstall to that folder without redownloading my games?
I'm looking at upgrading to windows 10 beta through a clean install. I have steam and all my games installed on my secondary drive. If I wipe and reinstall windows, can I point steam to my D:\Steam folder without having to redownload all my game files?
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Yes you can. Mostly it will work out of the box. Just link Steam after your fresh installation to the correct folder, restart Steam and everything should be fine.
I've encountered some cases, where this haven't worked. In those cases, I point to a newly created folder in the same partition. I start a clean download/install of a game. After I've added all needed games to my queue, I stopped steam. Now you can cut and insert your games to the new folder (this will be much faster than copying the files - a thing of a few seconds!). Now start steam again, resume download. Steam will load a few MB and the games are ready.
This normally works very fine for me.
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