all of my games suddenly disappeared

[Ib2gr84u2c]

I booted up my computer and everything boots fine, but when i open steam everything is uninstalled. Originally i thought it was just a steam issue, but now both origin and blizzards launcher have been uninstalled and so have the games. i have my os on an ssd so i thought maybe the hdd failed but i have all of my downloaded files, all my movies, yet all other games are nowhere to be found on hdd and the freespace has increased drastically justifying that claim. I'm sure theres no easier way to get my games back than using a backup or redownloading them, but is there something i can do in the future to keep this from happening? i'm especially confused since this hdd is only 2 or 3 months old and i bought it new. Any help is greatly appreciated! i should also note that League of Legends is still installed, along with stacraft brood war, i'm assuming because they werent associated with the launcher suites like steam/origin/blizzard, which could make the problem launcher suite specific

i should also mention my "Programs and Features" section under control panel has double copies of all the games i reinstalled, yet when i try to uninstall the copy with the older date it uninstalls both, and there are some programs that don't even show up on the list that i would like to uninstall (AVG for example)

 

[RunLuke]

Have you looked in

Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common ?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin ?


Maybe accidentally went back to a previous restore point? Not that it makes much sense, considering everything else is there, but I don't know if the restore point only deletes recently installed g[strike]ames[/strike] software.

 

[Ib2gr84u2c]

Have you looked in

Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common ?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin ?


Maybe accidentally went back to a previous restore point? Not that it makes much sense, considering everything else is there, but I don't know if the restore point only deletes recently installed g[strike]ames[/strike] software.

C drive is my ssd with OS and a movie, nothing else on it, my hdd is named A drive and seems to have files like pictures downloaded after the games still in tact but the games themselves dissapeared along with some minor software like speedfan

 

[RunLuke]

I have no idea if it will yield any results going throught event viewer, but it might give you some clue - it's pretty terrible to work with though, but since you have an idea of when the games disappeared it's pretty easy finding the day.

Do you have other stuff on the harddrive? Where the games were.

 

[Ib2gr84u2c]

I have no idea if it will yield any results going throught event viewer, but it might give you some clue - it's pretty terrible to work with though, but since you have an idea of when the games disappeared it's pretty easy finding the day.

Do you have other stuff on the harddrive? Where the games were.

The hdd is my storage drive for everything on the computer, everything else is fine (pictures, files, folders, software, even my skyrim mods) but every game associated with steam/origin/blizzard was uninstalled (minecraft and guild wars 2 were the only games uninstalled that weren't associated with those, probably because they have their own launcher suite) i still had an up to date starcraft broodwar, league of legends, and all my other software

 

[RunLuke]

That is extremely peculiar. I have no idea what it could be. Accidentally deleted sounds unlikely, anyone else have access to the computer? Maybe some real annoying malware +

 

[Ib2gr84u2c]

That is extremely peculiar. I have no idea what it could be. Accidentally deleted sounds unlikely, anyone else have access to the computer? Maybe some real annoying malware +

its my personal computer thats password protected, not even that i live with anyone that would have a reason to try and use my computer. In addition i don't really ever download anything, and when i do it's from reputable sources like steam. It's even weirder for me because i was playing fallout, some friends come over so i close it after saving, then i try and show them something cool on fallout about an hour or so later (with the computer having been on the entire time) and it along with my entire steam library has the "install" icon where the "play" icon used to be.

 

[hang-the-9]

Have you looked in

Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common ?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin ?


Maybe accidentally went back to a previous restore point? Not that it makes much sense, considering everything else is there, but I don't know if the restore point only deletes recently installed g[strike]ames[/strike] software.

C drive is my ssd with OS and a movie, nothing else on it, my hdd is named A drive and seems to have files like pictures downloaded after the games still in tact but the games themselves dissapeared along with some minor software like speedfan

So your games were installed on a secondary drive? And you named that drive the A drive? This may not be the cause of it, but hard drives were never meant to be named lower than C, the A and B drives were the floppy drives in the systems. Could be your computer got confused about the location of the files. I'd check with Steam support though, seems a bit odd for all your things to get uninstalled like that. You should also get a larger SSD and just keep all the programs installed on that, with your files for pictures and such saved on the second hard drive. No sense in having a fast drive for Windows but a slow drives for programs.

 

[Ib2gr84u2c]

Have you looked in

Program Files\Steam\SteamApps\common ?

C:\Program Files (x86)\Origin ?


Maybe accidentally went back to a previous restore point? Not that it makes much sense, considering everything else is there, but I don't know if the restore point only deletes recently installed g[strike]ames[/strike] software.

C drive is my ssd with OS and a movie, nothing else on it, my hdd is named A drive and seems to have files like pictures downloaded after the games still in tact but the games themselves dissapeared along with some minor software like speedfan

So your games were installed on a secondary drive? And you named that drive the A drive? This may not be the cause of it, but hard drives were never meant to be named lower than C, the A and B drives were the floppy drives in the systems. Could be your computer got confused about the location of the files. I'd check with Steam support though, seems a bit odd for all your things to get uninstalled like that. You should also get a larger SSD and just keep all the programs installed on that, with your files for pictures and such saved on the second hard drive. No sense in having a fast drive for Windows but a slow drives for programs.

i don't think it's steam specific since origin (EA), blizzards starcraft 2 and diablo3, arenanets guild wars 2, and Minecraft were all uninstalled in addition to my steam games. i could be wrong, but i don't see how a steam specific problem could impact other launcher suite programs like that, especially when other games were left untouched (sc broodwar for example)