How do i add preinstalled games on my steam library?

[Il Buon Vecchio Festo]

Hello steam community!
I have a question for you. I should reinstall windows on my ssd while all my steam games are installed on my secondary hdd. Is it possible and how can i add all the games, that are already installed on the hdd, to the "new" steam library? (i say new because i have to reinstall steam on the new OS) Can i make the "new steam" takes over the preinstalled games?

[Raiden]

Hello.

You can simply move your games into the new directory in your SSD, and create a new library folder of that directory in Steam settings. When you click "Install" button of the games you just moved, Steam will automatically discover existing files instead of downloading everything again.

Hope this will help.

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Il Buon Vecchio Festo:

Hello steam community!
I have a question for you. I should reinstall windows on my ssd while all my steam games are installed on my secondary hdd. Is it possible and how can i add all the games, that are already installed on the hdd, to the "new" steam library? (i say new because i have to reinstall steam on the new OS) Can i make the "new steam" takes over the preinstalled games?

In future, keep games & steam on the HDD, that'll avoid this issue.

[Il Buon Vecchio Festo]

Thanks for the answer but my ultimate goal is to keep my games on the hdd without moving them, just makes the "new steam" on the ssd detect the already installed games on the hdd (there's no os on the hdd, i just install games on it)

[ReBoot]

Originally posted by Il Buon Vecchio Festo:

Thanks for the answer but my ultimate goal is to keep my games on the hdd without moving them, just makes the "new steam" on the ssd detect the already installed games on the hdd (there's no os on the hdd, i just install games on it)

Move Steam to the HDD. Put it into let's say D:\Steam, put the games into D:\Steam\SteamApps. Then start Steam.

[Dorel2001]

Ok

[LuseLars]

ok there is an easy way to do this not mentioned here, so for anyone else having this issue:
go to settings/downloads in steam. click on STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS, add the steam folder from your other drive.

[I've ran out of profile ideas h]

Originally posted by LuseLars:

ok there is an easy way to do this not mentioned here, so for anyone else having this issue:
go to settings/downloads in steam. click on STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS, add the steam folder from your other drive.

nice necro

[Judgmental Amaterasu]

Originally posted by Pain Elemental R6S:

Originally posted by LuseLars:

ok there is an easy way to do this not mentioned here, so for anyone else having this issue:
go to settings/downloads in steam. click on STEAM LIBRARY FOLDERS, add the steam folder from your other drive.

nice necro

Beat me to it. I'm now helping necro this. CRAP WE'RE PART OF THE PROBLEM

[Mike]

This thread was quite old before the recent post, so we're locking it to prevent confusion.