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 have steam installed on another drive (not my SSD) and I've reinstalled Windows multiple times. All the steam games work. So you should be able to copy the folder over.
Depending on what game, the saves could be saved in your documents, or wherever.

Bookmarks could be exported from the browser (on most browsers I think), I think though one time I copied a folder over which had my bookmarks saved in, possibly Chrome.

Other apps I guess you have to reinstall them really yeah..

source: my own rubbish knowledge, don't beleive anything I just said
 
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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