Windows 7 reinstall - keeping games on secondary HDD

[MoRT489]

Hi all,

I want to format my SSD and reinstall windows 7 (needs a tidy up and want to create a backup image from clean so I can do it more often). However, I have a seconday mechanical hard drive on which all my games are saved, is there a way that I can perform a clean install of windows and have these games on the second HDD still work without the need to reinstall them all?

My concern is once Windows is reinstalled the games won't be linked to the new install and will not run.

Thanks for any advice you can offer.

 

[MoRT489]

Anything that can be done about those registry entries other than uninstall+reinstall? Repair maybe?

Another question - I have saved backups of my desktop files and everything in the username directory (i.e. My Docs, My Videos, game folders, IE favourites, etc.), are there any other folders in W7 that I should save to bring across?

I've reinstalled XP loads of times but only 3 or 4 times for W7 and the last was almost 2 yrs ago so a bit rusty and dont want to miss anything annoying. All media is on another separate HDD and backed up externally, so that's safe.

 

[MoRT489]

Thanks Lurkio, I would have forgotten program data!