Do I need to reinstall everything?

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So I built a new system and put my old HDD (with windows install) in it as well as an SSD with a new fresh install.

On my add or remove programs I have nothing installed (which makes sense), however, does this mean all my programs/bookmarks/etc from my old HDD are pointless?

I haven't tried running anything apart from a music file (had to faff about with security settings which was a pain too) but if I try to run a game, will it run? What if I tried to run steam?

If it doesn't, can anybody tell me how to sort out steam? Can I install it and just copypasta the files over and then delete the old ones? Don't want to lose saves of some games either...

Everything else I guess I'll just have to re-install and then I'll just format the HDD.
 
I'll install steam to my SSD and then use a drive manager to swap certain games back and for. My house has a massively slow connection though so I don't want to reinstall all the games.

Can I copy my old steam folder from my HDD to a external HDD along with stuff like my music/bookmarks folder/pictures/etc, format my HDD, copy stuff back from the external. Then, install steam to my SSD and when I want to play a game copy the files from the steamapps folder from my HDD to the SSDs folder?
 
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