Installing Steam games on another partition


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Hi guys, I have team fortress 2 in my steam account, and I want to install it on a separate partition. My question here is that if windows is reformatted and the steam client is installed again. Will I be able to attach the game to its a application (with my account)?

I didn't do this before but I think it is possible. I just want to confirm before doing.

thanks.

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Wow last part was a little hard to understand...

But if i understood you correctly, yes... do like i have done, have steam installed on one disk with all the other games and windows on another, if i ever reinstall windows i just reinstall steam to the same location on the same disk and i can start playing any of the games that was already installed...

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As far as I'm aware you can install a Steam game on as many computers/partitions as you want. But you can only be logged into the Steam account in one instance. If you try logging into it on two it will disconnect you on the first one.

Hope that answers your question.

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I installed Steam once (on a separate partition to Windows), and that's it. Whenever I format, I just re-link the shortcut, there's no need to re-install it.

You can log in to your account anywhere in the world and the games you purchased through Steam will always be linked to your account.

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Yeah, you will be able to still use TF2 as long as you are signed into Steam. Also, I'd recommend backing up the game files if you were going to reformat just so you don't have to redownload again.

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I think I understand here.

As In my case I will install the game in one partition and the steam client in the windows partition. In the case of format I will reinstall steam only and reattach the game files to it from the other partition.

thanks guys.

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