Installing Windows 7 on new PC & steam

cyber69

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I'm going to be installing Windows 7 on my new PC and I currently have all my steam games on a serperate drive labelled 'D:' and I am thinking would it be a case of installing Windows on the new PC, installing steam and then put the drive into the PC and tell steam to use the D: instead?

Where is the setting to tell steam to use another drive? Or would it be best to install the drive first and then install steam and tell the installer to use the D: drive? Would this wipe any of my data?
 
I just left steam where it was.... installed win8 and when up and running just went to my D drive that my steam folder was on and ran steam.exe.... after a lot of drive activity and a few restarts steam sorted itself out.
 
Thanks, so there's no steam data on my C: drive if steam is installed to D: only a shortcut to the steam.exe ?
 
Yep, I just run steam.exe from the folder after a reinstall of Windows and it sorts itself out.

Occasionally(once) I've had to reinstall it to the same folder.
 
I've heard of a gamesaver manager program which is suppose to copy save games from which steam might have put on the C: drive?
 
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