[SOLVED] Fresh installation of Windows W/O losing Steam & its apps

[Ranime]

I want to do a clean Install of Windows 10, I've installed Steam in D:/ Drive. Is there a possible of doing an installation without losing the steam apps?

 

[DSzymborski]

You're going to have to reinstall most applications, including Steam itself.

Steam games shouldn't be a problem though and once Steam is installed, you can point it to the directories of downloaded games. Assuming, of course, this is a separate drive from your OS drive. I'm not quite sure as your description is very unclear. "D:/Drive" refers to a location of a drive or a partition of a drive, not what the hardware is or what its function is.

 

[Ranime]

You're going to have to reinstall most applications, including Steam itself.

Steam games shouldn't be a problem though and once Steam is installed, you can point it to the directories of downloaded games. Assuming, of course, this is a separate drive from your OS drive. I'm not quite sure as your description is very unclear. "D:/Drive" refers to a location of a drive or a partition of a drive, not what the hardware is or what its function is.

D:/ Drive is on another Hard disk.

 

[DSzymborski]

D:/ Drive is on another Hard disk.

Then you should be able to reinstall Steam and point it to those existing game installations.

This is for Steam only. Most things will require a new installation.

 

[cryoburner]

It might be worth temporarily unplugging the D drive from your motherboard before reinstalling Windows though, to avoid the possibility of inadvertently overwriting its contents in the process.