Does refreshing your PC affect other partitions?

[UrAvgGamer]

Hello!

My computer is acting a little off unlike when I first used it. Of course that's to be expected but it's very sloppy. I think there are viruses and bloatware that came with a few things that I've downloaded. I've got all of my games on the the D: Drive which I don't want to get rid of.

My question is whether refreshing your PC affects other partitions or not?

Things that might help you out:
Windows 8.1 is my OS
1 physical drive inside the case
2 partitions ( C: and D: ) 457 GB each
It wasn't partitioned in the first place. It was partitioned by a friend of mine.

And also, my steam is installed on C: drive, will the deletion of steam make my steam games unusable once I install steam again? Will it be recognized by steam as mine? (weird question)

 

[Gallarian]

By 'refreshing your PC', do you mean to format your OS ( C: ) partition and perform a clean install of Windows?

If so, everything within that partition will be 'deleted'. However it will NOT delete anything on other partitions, so everything on your D: partition will remain as it was.

As for for Steam, do you mean that the program is installed on your C: partition, but your game library is saved on your D: partition?

 

[UrAvgGamer]

By 'refreshing your PC', do you mean to format your OS ( C: ) partition and perform a clean install of Windows?

If so, everything within that partition will be 'deleted'. However it will NOT delete anything on other partitions, so everything on your D: partition will remain as it was.

As for for Steam, do you mean that the program is installed on your C: partition, but your game library is saved on your D: partition?

Yes. As I've said, all of my games, as well as steam games, are on D: partition.

 

[ss202sl]

When you re-install Steam, just point it to your D drive(game library), and it will pick up and validate your games without having to download them.

 

[Gallarian]

Ok, it should just pick your library folder up again if you set it to do so while you install Steam.

What I advise you do if you come into conflicts is rename your steam library folder on your D: partition (just add 'old' to the end of its name) and reinstall and set up Steam on your C: partition, and let it reinstall its library files on your D: partition, just like you had originally.

After that, just copy your old 'steamapps' folder over to the new library folder, and it will pick all your games back up again. After its all up and running, delete your old folder library folder.

 

[UrAvgGamer]

Thank you for your time. And Thanks for your answers.. Helped a lot..