Any time you have valuable data you should back it up.

In life you never want to assume that a possibility of what might happen will happen, because you will be crushed when it doesn't.

There is always the potential for data loss at any point, even when you are just moving a drive. You can short the SSD or your board can do it. Your board can be incompatible and fry the SSD. Etc.

Might be rare cases, but it CAN happen. So if you have valuable data that cannot be replaced then you need to back it up first.

Most games save their files to "Documents" or "My Games" folder, you can find the game you are looking for and copy that data from there. IF it is not there, then check with the developer where they save it (though it will almost certainly be shown in a Google search).

I personally recommend either:

- backup all savefiles to Steam Cloud
- use Ludavi app and backup all save files to an USB or other place.

Depending what you mean by reinserting SSD it may or may not have your save files working. Different games may keep save files in different places including different partitions and drives.

Thanks for reply my main problem is that I have gotten my PC password and my pin doesn’t work so I want to reset my pc I just thought the SSD would have my save files that I could just takeout the SSD factory Reset and put it back in again without losing the Storage . Is that possible ?

I asked Tech support they said it’s not possible I thought it could be done

depend on the game
steam cloud doesnt work with all games either

some games save in games install locations, others to windows/user documents, others yet in windows registry

grab gamesave manager and back them up to usb or somewhere on the drive you want to transfer to another pc, then restore

Originally posted by momohamed1993:

Thanks for reply my main problem is that I have gotten my PC password and my pin doesn’t work so I want to reset my pc I just thought the SSD would have my save files that I could just takeout the SSD factory Reset and put it back in again without losing the Storage . Is that possible ?

I asked Tech support they said it’s not possible I thought it could be done

OK, I think I'm getting a better idea of your situation.
I can think of two possible solution.

1. Remove the drive with locked windows and connect to any other device that can read the drive so you can manually copy safe files to another drive. Then reinstal/reset Windows and copy the files back.

2. Get a Linux Live USB and manually copy safe files to a different drive. Can be online drive/drop box or a second USB.

There is also a good chance your save files are already backed up by steam cloud and you will get all your data back when you reinstall windows. But that is obviosly not guaranteed. You can try to login to Steam on a different PC, install most imprtant games and check if the save files are there.

I can try That, I also thought of resetting my PC I have an option to Keep my files will that save all my game save files so that when I reinstall them they can have the same game files and continue from where I left off ?

Originally posted by momohamed1993:

I can try That, I also thought of resetting my PC I have an option to Keep my files will that save all my game save files so that when I reinstall them they can have the same game files and continue from where I left off ?

What do you mean by “resetting” windows?
Reinstallation? Some tool to recover a working state from the past? Some tools in your laptop or prebuilt?

It may or may not work. Depends where the files were kept and if that “reset” tool will wipe that save files out or override with older files.

i think he means reinstalling windows using the preserve option to keep users files and reg settings

it should work, but ms likes to bork things like that

better to use gamesave manager and backup the save to usb or somewhere, then reinstall windows, and restore it

I have working, self-updating clones for "Documents" and "AppData" in the form of 'Symbolic Junction' on my archive drive.