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Zatrix
08-19-04, 01:02 PM
Alright well i didn't see a game section and wasn't sure where to put this. so i put it here. move if needed

Alright i have alot of steam files and games. It took a while to get them all. what im wondering is when i format how will i save these so i dont have to reinstall everything?

Its way too big to fit on one cd rom. its a couple of gb's. If i was to just format my e drive since thats why my windows installation is in would i need to format my c drive with all my games. I noticed that my registry files would be missing too. How can i save the registry files for steam so when i format i can just add those registry files again so everything works without reinstalling everything
Krieger
08-19-04, 01:08 PM
Well if you find the main "tree" branch that the steam registry entries are under you may be able to export the whole branch from regedit. I think you just right click on the branch you want to export and click export.
Zatrix
08-19-04, 02:15 PM
and i can save that to a disk?

so when after i format and i try to open steam and a error occurs i can just add that registry and all should be good?
Krieger
08-19-04, 02:29 PM
There is no way to make sure, but it's worth a shot because that's how you backup your registry settings... well one way. Unfortuantly I dont have the ability to test it right now. You could always email whoever makes steam and see if they know of a way.
JoT
08-19-04, 02:32 PM
You didn't look hard enough. I've moved it to Games. ;)
Zatrix
08-19-04, 02:33 PM
lmao. in all the time i have been here i have never saw a games section lol. o well i guess its true what they say you learn something new everyday :D
madman22
08-19-04, 05:59 PM
you know if you reformat, you'll lose everything on that drive. it sounds like you have your games on one drive and your OS on another, so just backup your registry with a program, format the drive with the OS on it, reinstall the OS, import the registry backup, and BAM, done.

goto major geeks (http://majorgeeks.com/downloads15.html) for registry backups.
JoT
08-19-04, 06:04 PM
Actually, you don't have to have the registry files to run Steam. I have formatted many many many times and used Steam with no backed up registries and no problems every time.