Help w/ games after reinstalling windows

[Fender357]

Ok, I was having major computer problems so I formated my C: drive with windows and reinstalled windows. I have 2 seperate drives C and D. I keep windows and all the important stuff on C and then all my games and music on D. Now that I've got everything running good again, I can't play anything on Steam or any of my other games. The one solution I see is to just reinstall the games. Which really isn't any biggie, exept for all of my Steam games...because thats a hell of a lot of games!

Is there any easyer way to make Windows see my games again? The steam help wasn't any help. What actualy happens when I try to play games is, I open up steam just fine, click on a game, get the loading box, then nothing. No error or anything. Its hard to get help when you don't get an error :| .

So, any ideas?

 

[Ren.182]

You have to reinstall them all. When you install them update where they are in the registry so windows knows where they are (i think )
Just copy the .GCF's from your old install to your new steam install and it'll just install from them.

 

[Revisedsoul]

well i did a reinstall of windows, same as how you have it(except with more partitions) and steam worked fine as did all my games except the ones that kept the cd-key in the registry

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

Rename the old Steam folder (e.g. Valve2). Re-Install steam. Remove the new steam folder. Rename Valve2 back to its orginal name and voila.

 

[duffers20]

Rename the old Steam folder (e.g. Valve2). Re-Install steam. Remove the new steam folder. Rename Valve2 back to its orginal name and voila.

That might do it, but there may have been some info held in teh registry which would have been held on teh c: drive which was formatted so you may have to reinstall it to put the info back into the registry.

 

[RoyaleWithCheese]

It worked for me last weekend, you have to make sure that all drive letters remain the same though..

 

[diluted]

Copy all of the *.GCF files to a folder somewhere. Then delete the Steam folder and install Steam again. Copy the *.GCF files back to the SteamApps folder. Done.

 

[duffers20]

Just realised what you actually did royalwithcheese, that would work and you wouldn't have to install the games with the gigabytes of gcf files etc.