[SOLVED] Can I transfer games on my new hdd before instaling windows?

[tna135]

Hello everyone! I have a question and i'm gonna try my best to explain. I'm getting ready to build a new gaming pc and its a major upgrade since i've built my last one back in 2012-13. I got a new hdd and windows. My question is can I put my new hdd in my old pc and download my games onto it then put it in my new pc to install windows with my games already on it? Would this be possible? I hope the question makes sense.

 

[Iniaskle]

Hello everyone! I have a question and i'm gonna try my best to explain. I'm getting ready to build a new gaming pc and its a major upgrade since i've built my last one back in 2012-13. I got a new hdd and windows. My question is can I put my new hdd in my old pc and download my games onto it then put it in my new pc to install windows with my games already on it? Would this be possible? I hope the question makes sense.

I've done this with steam games in the past and I can confirm that this works. You have to keep the steam folder and on your new pc locate that folder. I dont really remember all of it so you may have to google a bit. But I can say that it does work with steam games.

 

[Nemesia]

I've done this with steam games in the past and I can confirm that this works. You have to keep the steam folder and on your new pc locate that folder. I dont really remember all of it so you may have to google a bit. But I can say that it does work with steam games.

The problem here is the OP installing the game on the new drive and installing Windows on that drive after. Which would mean a format of that drive and losing all the games.

OP. Unless you do two partitions on that drive and install the game on that second partition and install the OS on the first partition it won't work.

 

[USAFRet]

Hello everyone! I have a question and i'm gonna try my best to explain. I'm getting ready to build a new gaming pc and its a major upgrade since i've built my last one back in 2012-13. I got a new hdd and windows. My question is can I put my new hdd in my old pc and download my games onto it then put it in my new pc to install windows with my games already on it? Would this be possible? I hope the question makes sense.

While possible, it is way more complex than it warrants.
You'd have to create a different partition, copy your games into that.
Then, in the install, use the rest of the drive for the OS.

Then, you'd have two partitions, C and D, and have to manipulate the Steam client to see that other partition (easy).

You're not saving ANY time.

 

[tna135]

Thankd for some answers already everyone. I know I can simply install steam then re-download my games after installing windows. But games such as farmingsimulator I bought as a disk version so I wasn't too sure.

 

[USAFRet]

Thankd for some answers already everyone. I know I can simply install steam then re-download my games after installing windows. But games such as farmingsimulator I bought as a disk version so I wasn't too sure.

And that standalone game absolutely will not work. It needs to be reinstalled after the new OS.