Building first PC, external hard drive question

aragland256

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Hello, I'm building my first PC. I have a external Fantom 7200 rpm USB 3.0 hard drive that I've been using that stores all of my origin, steam and Uplay games. When I setup my new system, could I just plug in my hard drive and start playing the games once steam/origin/Uplay are installed? Would they recognize the games being on the drive automatically or do I need to re-download? Really don't want to do that as I have a terabyte worth of games. Thanks.