Formatting drive. Will Second drive keep files?

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JustABitSalty

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I want to format my SSD and clean install windows but I have a whole Terabyte of games on my secondary drive and dont want to have to redownload them.

If I clean install my SSD and simply make windows recognize my drive after the install will all the files be accessible or will I have to format that as well.

Any help would be great. Thanks
 
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The files will still be on your secondary drive but might as well not be since windows registry has no info on previously installed programs after a fresh windows install. You might as well format and reinstall everything again.
Maybe someone has additional info that makes my info obsolete?
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The files will still be on your secondary drive but might as well not be since windows registry has no info on previously installed programs after a fresh windows install. You might as well format and reinstall everything again.
Maybe someone has additional info that makes my info obsolete?
 
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hang-the-9

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Are you talking about just files or programs you installed? The files would be there, but any programs will have to be re-installed as in the above post ^

I suggest you unplug the second drive when doing the clean setup on your main drive, will keep you from making a mistake and wiping the wrong drive.
 
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