In a pickle with Steam.

[Ddm5]

Right, so last night I decided to reinstall windows completely on my SSD, wiped it, backed up everything to my HDD and so on, the problem I've run into is that I've accidently installed steam onto my SSD and went through the settings in steam, located my other games and it's instantly recognised the 21 games I had installed. My problem is, can I simply uninstall Steam from the SSD, reinstalling it to the HDD without it wiping the current installed games?

[T.Vengeance]

Uninstalling steam would delete all your games. So you gotta move your games before you uninstall.

[bchampion96]

Right, so last night I decided to reinstall windows completely on my SSD, wiped it, backed up everything to my HDD and so on, the problem I've run into is that I've accidently installed steam onto my SSD and went through the settings in steam, located my other games and it's instantly recognised the 21 games I had installed. My problem is, can I simply uninstall Steam from the SSD, reinstalling it to the HDD without it wiping the current installed games?

 

As long as the game files are on the HDD, and you can point steam to them when you've re-installed, you can install steam wherever you like. I don't see why uninstalling steam would make it delete all your games.

[rashdanml]

Make a copy of Steamapps, and optionally, userdata. Simply install Steam wherever you want, then copy over both folders and have it overwrite anything in the install directory. Steam will do the rest when you launch it. 

 

The other option, since you already have a backup, is to copy Steam.exe, Steamapps to any location, delete everything else. Then launch steam.exe and it'll update to the latest version. 

[Bad2049]

Step 1 - Shutdown PC and disconnect HDD

Step 2 - Go back into Windows and uninstall Steam

Step 3 - Reconnect HDD (from shutdown) and turn PC back on

Step 4 - Install Steam to your preferred location

Step 5 - Enjoy!

[T.Vengeance]

I don't see why uninstalling steam would make it delete all your games.

Don't know. Maybe they changed it. Last time I uninstalled steam and all my game were in the steam directory under steam apps,the uninstall deleted all my games.

[Ddm5]

Step 1 - Shutdown PC and disconnect HDD

Step 2 - Go back into Windows and uninstall Steam

Step 3 - Reconnect HDD (from shutdown) and turn PC back on

Step 4 - Install Steam to your preferred location

Step 5 - Enjoy!

Pretty much done that, though I had to wrestle to get steam to install the service / repair.