Formatting primary drive, but what about installed programs on the secondary?

AzZ

AzZ

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Hey.

I'm going to be reinstalling Windows on my SSD but I was just wondering about the installed programs I have on my second storage drive. Am I right in thinking that I will have to reinstall the programs that are on it (storage drive) in order for Windows to recognize them, and for me to use them without problems on the fresh install of Windows?
 
Pretty much as j6m said - if you do have Steam, don't bother faffing about with installing it again on the new OS, just run steam.exe and it'll just work :)
 
AzZ said:
Hey.
Am I right in thinking that I will have to reinstall the programs that are on it (storage drive) in order for Windows to recognize them, and for me to use them without problems on the fresh install of Windows?
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Not necessarily. It's just a case of give 'em a go and see what happens.
 
AzZ said:
Hey.

I'm going to be reinstalling Windows on my SSD but I was just wondering about the installed programs I have on my second storage drive. Am I right in thinking that I will have to reinstall the programs that are on it (storage drive) in order for Windows to recognize them, and for me to use them without problems on the fresh install of Windows?
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Some programs can be a bit of a pain when it comes to this but generally everything should be OK.
 
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