How to get my games after formatting my disc

[L9_2k]

Few days ago i have formated my disc C and i want to get old games from disc D to my steam with no downloading this idk how i should do this.

[Zekiran]

If you didn't back them up *before* formatting, do you honestly expect them to be there?

You will have to redownload them, and don't expect that any of the saves or configs or anything - anything at all - is still there. If you uploaded images to steam, they will still exist, but if you didn't back up the data on your drive BEFORE reformatting... Um. Dude, they're gone, that's what reformatting DOES.

If you mean you want to MOVE your games from a correctly formatted disk, TO the other one, there are ways to do that but it'll still involve some fiddling. I'd search "move steam games" and see what comes up. I have never tried to do it myself but I know there's at least one or two tools to do it.

[relliK]

Add previously existing alternate installation libraries/folders to Steam
If you had previously installed the games to an alternate location outside of your main Steam folder please try the following:

1. Launch Steam and go to Steam > Settings > Downloads and click the Steam Library Folders button. This will open a window with all your current Steam Library folders.

2. Click the "Add Library Folder" button and select the folder with your installed games.

Once you have added the new Library folder your installed games should appear in your Steam Library.

source: https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?s=b2b5dd23c1a55255ca9561db4dc28304&ref=8379-RYIP-2998