Given Error when trying to uninstall games

[TheWokest]

Recently I deleted steam due to being stupid, and when I reinstalled it onto my 2nd drive (it was on my 1st drive before), all the games that were on my second drive when steam was on my first drive can no longer be uninstalled. It gives me the error that windows cannot find the path to my steam.exe in my first drive.

Any ideas on how to solve this? Any help is appreciated.

[Iceira]

Thats why ccleaner was made to deal with windows registration issue.

We had box games from the past and they add entrys to windows registration,

Do note ccleaner is a proffsonal tool, dont fiddle with option you dont know about,

You can do junk and clean pc for temp files, and windows registration and save before them before accept changes, reboot pc afterwards this is seen as let windows update to the new settings.

ps.
im sure you dont want to contact or use uninstaller from box or game devs own support page
even 100 game can be a drag if you need to contact them all.

do note, we other learn this in the past, so it make sense you might not knowing this.

[Orpheus™]

Did you actually uninstalled the client or did you just deleted it? Can you see your games through the client?

[Iceira]

Even burnout disk can do this with a none steam game, left over registration point to things not there anymore. and then you cant install game before delete windows registrations of left overs.

also can be read like " It gives me the error that windows cannot find the path to my steam.exe in my first drive." manuel wipe" of content but it dont say what drev it is possible c-drev with its games there. in program files.

[crunchyfrog]

Easy answer:

Go to the drive where the game data is and simply delete them manually through Windows.

Then use Ccleaner for the registry entries to tidy things up.

There's nothing mystical about this as deleting is really straighforward.

Alternatively you can go to Steam settings on your new installation, add that old drive as a location and it'll see your old games. You can then move them, delete them and so on as you wish.

[Iceira]

Nice to see you again CF, yeap but he most be a newer pc owner, we other get spanking in the past and learn this, in the older OS.

ccleaner, made from the past win3,11 with other name app, and later ende where its been sense, i dont know, dont even think over this.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by Iceira W10:

Nice to see you again CF, yeap but he most be a newer pc owner, we other get spanking in the past and learn this, in the older OS.

Thanks - I pop in from time to time. Busy time of year with the festival stuff and all that.

[Iceira]

Ccleaner
Point is its a app that clean up after windows leftover in the past, and the many option dont fiddle with checkboxes you dont know what is doing. there are many of them i even had never had use for. this is what i ment use default setting made by app, until you know better.or read about them.

[xarvn]

I am not 100% sure but it sounds like the problem stems from Steam allowing only one library per drive. When the OP installed Steam onto the "2nd drive" which I assume had a Steam library with games installed on it (i.e. root "SteamLibrary" folder), Steam gets confused because by default the games are stored in Steam\steamapps. If this is the case then I would try moving the files from the root SteamLibrary\steamapps to Steam\steamapps and deleting the SteamLibrary folder thereafter. However--because I have not tried this myself--I don't know if this will solve the problem or make things worse!

[Iceira]

Originally posted by xarvn:

I am not 100% sure but it sounds like the problem stems from Steam allowing only one library per drive. When the OP installed Steam onto the "2nd drive" which I assume had a Steam library with games installed on it (i.e. root "SteamLibrary" folder), Steam gets confused because by default the games are stored in Steam\steamapps. If this is the case then I would try moving the files from the root SteamLibrary\steamapps to Steam\steamapps and deleting the SteamLibrary folder thereafter. However--because I have not tried this myself--I don't know if this will solve the problem or make things worse!

yeah good point but dont explan uninstall issue. thats mean look like a none steam game or thirdpart launcher point at something not there anymore.

[xarvn]

Originally posted by Iceira W10:

...yeah good point but dont explan uninstall issue...

Well I was picturing the following:
1. OP initiates uninstalling of a particular game (which Steam obviously indicates is installed)
2. Steam searches for files to delete in Steam/steamapps/common but does not find any game files and returns error.

Where my explanation fails involves the actual error message, which is that "windows cannot find the path to...steam.exe in...[the] first drive."

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by xarvn:

I am not 100% sure but it sounds like the problem stems from Steam allowing only one library per drive. When the OP installed Steam onto the "2nd drive" which I assume had a Steam library with games installed on it (i.e. root "SteamLibrary" folder), Steam gets confused because by default the games are stored in Steam\steamapps. If this is the case then I would try moving the files from the root SteamLibrary\steamapps to Steam\steamapps and deleting the SteamLibrary folder thereafter. However--because I have not tried this myself--I don't know if this will solve the problem or make things worse!

I doubt that's the case, as if it's different drives that wouldn't happen.

I've always ran several drives at once on Steam, and I've never seen that happen. Only when you try it on the same drive.

[Iceira]

OP have a choise go into steam folder on that game and wipe that folder only for leftover files.
to check and confirm is this a steam issue or windows registation issue, something dont add up here. maybe its one of them low disk space issue where steam move to other drive and then usre did something in wrong steam disk, actual have a know whats steam default now, chack steam storage mangement in steam sstting storage , even try repaire steam library while you are there.

gl with it OP

[xarvn]

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

I doubt that's the case, as if it's different drives that wouldn't happen.

I've always ran several drives at once on Steam, and I've never seen that happen. Only when you try it on the same drive.

From my understanding the OP has at least two drives with initial and final state as follows:

Initial:
Drive 1: Steam program with or without games installed.
Drive 2: Steam Library with games installed in SteamLibrary folder in root directory.

Final:
Drive 1: Steam deleted. Games, if installed in Steam\steamapps, deleted.
Drive 2: Steam newly installed; new Steam\steamapps folder installed. Previous SteamLibrary folder left installed in root directory. Conflict between newly installed Steam and its library and the SteamLibrary folder that was there previously due to two libraries on same drive.

In any case, I assume this is moot by now and hopefully the OP has resolved his problem.

[crunchyfrog]

Originally posted by xarvn:

Originally posted by crunchyfrog:

I doubt that's the case, as if it's different drives that wouldn't happen.

I've always ran several drives at once on Steam, and I've never seen that happen. Only when you try it on the same drive.

From my understanding the OP has at least two drives with initial and final state as follows:

Initial:
Drive 1: Steam program with or without games installed.
Drive 2: Steam Library with games installed in SteamLibrary folder in root directory.

Final:
Drive 1: Steam deleted. Games, if installed in Steam\steamapps, deleted.
Drive 2: Steam newly installed; new Steam\steamapps folder installed. Previous SteamLibrary folder left installed in root directory. Conflict between newly installed Steam and its library and the SteamLibrary folder that was there previously due to two libraries on same drive.

In any case, I assume this is moot by now and hopefully the OP has resolved his problem.

Except no, that's not a fair assumption.

I'm not saying it couldn't happen. It's far more likely to be as I said as that's the simplest and most common scenario. You're adding things that don't tend to occur naturally.