Hi

I had a few GoG games installed on D:\ partition (Stalker CS, Ruiner, Satellite Reign, had to make a fresh install of Windows 10 (on C:\ obviously) . After installation, all the games were gone.

It's not a problem per se for me, I have all the games back but I found it just weird. Is it something that happens?

At a guess,I would assume a minor bug.

I'm assuming you overwrote your partition accidentally when selecting your disk setup in the windows installer.

It's pretty common when reinstalling your OS with games like the ones GOG sells. It doesn't rely on DRM, so it does rely on registry keys to tell it a lot of information about the games, specifically if you run Galaxy.

Reinstalling the OS wipes those registry keys, and you might still have the games on the secondary drive, but they're not showing. Running Galaxy once should reinstall them, or if you have manual installers, verify they're still on the hard drive, and just reinstall them to the same directory.

I've had this happen to me when I went back to Win 7 when 10 was still pretty new. I haven't wiped my OS in some time though, so I'm a bit fuzzy on the details.

Good luck and I hope this helps!
-Cym

Are the games really gone from the D: drive, or are they just not linked to desktop/start menu?

The folders and files are still there and you use Galaxy, importing the games again and running Verify/Repair should restore all the missing stuff without downloading everything again.

The folders and files were gone, removed. Other folders, ie the one containing drivers, were untouched.

Did you try searching for the games yet with a search option?
I remember back when i got my first and only virus due to thinking one needs a crack for irc to use it, this was 2008 somewhere i believe. I actually only needed to wait 30 seconds to use irc but i didn't know that back then.
Anyway when i reinstalled windows without wiping my C drive since i needed data from that drive.
It was actually somewhere totally else. Think it was an extra user folder that contained all those files i needed.
Like i said your best try would be searching for the folders on your drive where you had em.

That's strange. Re-Installing Windows on C should not touch any other drives at all. But the way MS messed up lately... you never know...

Was thinking the same thing. The usual thing is the OS leaves other partitions alone on a reinstall. It's probably another of those intended "features" that 10 has in order to make our lives more inconvenient. XD

The only slightly unusual thing I did was deleting the 3 little system partitions that Win 10 creates for itself when installing, recovery etc. Maybe that's the reason, idk.

@Fonzer I searched, nothing comes out. I doubt it's the virus though.