A 2 steam libraries problem

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badbryan87 24 Aug @ 8:41pm

Hello all,

I had two steam libraries for separate hard drives. I played my older games on my D: drive and newer ones on my C: drive. Well recently my C: drive died on me but my D: drive is just fine. I just got my PC back with it's new C: drive and looking I can see that the games are still on the D: drive but steam shows that the games aren't installed. Is there a way to re-link the second library or do I have to clean out that drive and start downloading anew? Any help would be greatly appreciated!

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Jaunitta 🌸 24 Aug @ 8:56pm

USB drives will require they be connected for games to appear as installed again.
Just unplug the D drive and plug in again wait a moment .
Check the library is present again in the storage manager.

Iceira 24 Aug @ 10:44pm

Did you not install steam at C-drive in the past crashed installmeant.

reinstall steam and add steam multi lib again, as you also did last time then you made the D-drive.

D-drve dont add themself at new drive and when you reinstall steam.

ps.
and steam cant auto serach or remap, ppl have seen steam library get flagg off as uninstall , they do that when chain to added drive get lost harware or software.

in a old pc i have seen a chain to a drive get lost and next reboot driver is in the system again. ( steam has no way to know if drive is a burnout or not. )

i'm sorry if this is to technical for you, ( steam just use the system it did not made it

and in the old days we had removablew drives, MS change that so now you are in this lack of options. with how drives should be seen.

Hotswap drives was a huge thing in the past. ( maybe it still is, but that dont fix what MS did with it afaik )

Last edited by Iceira; 24 Aug @ 10:54pm