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Carbonoid 19 października 2013 o 4:49

Motherboard dead....

OK so my motherboard died the other day meaning I have to get a new one, so I will need to reinstall windows and steam. Now I have all my games installed on a separate hard-drive, what I would like to know is there any way to recover these without having to download them all again?

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yusupov 19 października 2013 o 4:51

yep. you just link steam to the directory & theyll all be there same as they were before.

[UFO] rad87gn 19 października 2013 o 6:13

Your HDD or SSD has nothing to do with the motherboard loss but drivers.

You know how I restore a HDD or SDD? I throw it in another computer (I.E. Motherboard) to revive it.

Ostatnio edytowany przez: [UFO] rad87gn; 19 października 2013 o 6:15

Carbonoid 19 października 2013 o 7:29

rad87gn theres nothing wrong with my HDD, so why would I want to install it in another PC to "revive" it?

My motherboard is broken, I must replace it with a new one. I will be upgrading from a 1st gen core i5 to a 3rd gen so most likely my windows will fail to boot, meaning I will have to reinstall windows.

When I originally installed steam I placed my game directory on seperate HDD from windows, when I reinstall windows and steam will I be able to direct steam to that directory and have it detect all my games or will I have to download them all again.

[UFO] rad87gn 19 października 2013 o 7:43

The revive thing is trying to explain you do not have to reinstall. Pop it in and let the OS fix the drivers. Done deal. It's free to try and I bet it works. Nothing with the HDD connections or anything changes between Sandy and Ivy bridge.

Ostatnio edytowany przez: [UFO] rad87gn; 19 października 2013 o 7:43

Carbonoid 19 października 2013 o 9:19

Doubt it will work, I'll be moving from Nehalem to Ivy bridge and changing my chipset in the process.

The Rock God 19 października 2013 o 11:33

Początkowo opublikowane przez Carbonoid 1984:
Doubt it will work, I'll be moving from Nehalem to Ivy bridge and changing my chipset in the process.

None of that matters. There are two ways you can do this:

1)Put hard drive in new build.
Let it boot.
Install new drivers.

2) Put hard drive in new build.
Boot using Windows disc and install Windows.
Install the drivers that aren't there because you haven't installed them yet because it's a new Windows install.

There's no reason to reinstall Windows. Either way you do it, you still have to install the drivers. Option 1 doesn't wipe the HD in the process.

rotNdude 19 października 2013 o 12:03

Początkowo opublikowane przez Carbonoid 1984:
Doubt it will work, I'll be moving from Nehalem to Ivy bridge and changing my chipset in the process.

Windows has become a little more bullet proof when installing an old drive with Windows loaded on it into a new system with different hardware. At a minimum, install the new hardware and then boot the system with the old drive. If you get a BSOD, you know you'll probably need to reinstall the OS.

mmmcheesywaffles 19 października 2013 o 12:06

If your new mobo is a much more up to date board then you are better off reinstalling Windows from scratch, on a new drive.

you can put you old HD in as a second drive and copy data later.

Booting from an HD that spent time on another mobo with different drivers can introduce errors that are hard to pin down - you might have no trouble for weeks then hit a wall with BSOD.
A lot depends on which system drivers have changed from one mobo to the other. Even boards by the same manufacturer are no guarantee.

If you list all of your system drivers before and after the new mobo you will know which drivers changed and can manually ensure the old ones are deleted.

EDIT: Added 'all' to last paragraph

Ostatnio edytowany przez: mmmcheesywaffles; 19 października 2013 o 15:31

Carbonoid 19 października 2013 o 13:23

Thanks for all the advice on windows, but it's not really what I asked for.

I have 3 HDD's. 1x Windows, 1x Media, 1x Games.

If I must reinstall windows, can I direct Steam towards my games HDD, have it detect my games without the need to download 200GB plus of data again?

It's not a question of what windows can do, but can steam sort my games without me needing to do full downloads again.

Laptop 19 października 2013 o 14:28

If Windows fails to load for me after a hardware change I just pop in my Windows DVD and it does the "fix problems stopping Windows from starting up" option. Fixes it every time.

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Zefar 19 października 2013 o 15:06

Even when you re install the later Windows you don't need to format the drive and in most cases it opts not to do it. It'll just make your last Window folder to a backup folder. That you should honestly delete pretty quickly. I've had mine go like "Oh no, you can't delete this folder, it got important files in it".

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mmmcheesywaffles 19 października 2013 o 15:13

Początkowo opublikowane przez Carbonoid 1984:
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If I must reinstall windows, can I direct Steam towards my games HDD, have it detect my games without the need to download 200GB plus of data again?

It's not a question of what windows can do, but can steam sort my games without me needing to do full downloads again.

Have a read of this ...https://support.steampowered.com/kb_article.php?ref=7710-TDLC-0426

I moved Steam folders from one machine to another and from drive to drive. So it can be done. But you will need to ensure your Steam Apps folder is where Steam thinks it is.

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