Windows 10: How can I find back/launch the game in my other drive after reinstalling my window

Hello , Ive just reinstall my window there is a game which I installed it from window store
I installed the game at D drive and I only formatted c drive
I cannot launch the game or do anything about it
I dont want to reinstall the same file into d drive since I dont get many gb left in D drive

how can I launch it without reinstalling

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Games won't launch and run in background.

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community, we appreciate your interest in Windows 10.

Please do let us know with the following information for better assistance:

• What exactly do you mean by games does not run in the background?
• Which are the games you are trying to launch?
• Were you able to see any error code/ error notification while trying to launch the game?
• Have you tried any troubleshooting steps?

I would like to inform that the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable x86,
usually occupy 1 GB of the storage space.

I suggest you to run disk cleanup to free the memory: Free up drive space in Windows 10
and check.

Hope it helps. Reply to the post with an updated status of this issue and required information, we will be happy to assist you further.

 

Launching games

Hi Wesley,

Windows 10 is gamer-friendly by design. If an issue like being unable to launch a game happens, it can be caused by outdated display driver or other factors that cause conflict when launching the app. For us to better assist you, we'd like to ask for additional
information. Please answer the following:

• What build and version of Windows 10 are you using?
• Are you getting an error message when launching the game?
• Have you made any changes to the settings or installed updates prior to this issue?
• What troubleshooting steps have you tried so far?
• What specific games are you having issues with?

We will wait for your response.

 

Some steam games fail to launch on Windows 10

Hi Ponyatno,

Welcome to Microsoft community and thank you for posting your query.

Sorry for the inconvenience caused to you. Let me help you to fix the issue.

To assist you better, please provide us more information.

• 
  What is the completer error message do you received?
  
• What exactly happen you try to launch Dota 2 using steam account?

For now let’s try simple troubleshooting steps and check if this help in resolving the issue. I would suggest you to disable and enable the graphic driver.

If the issue still persist, I would recommend you to uninstall and reinstall the game and check.

• 
  Press Windows key + X and select Control panel.
  
• 
  Click on Program and features, locate for the game, right click on it and uninstall it.
  

Hope this helps. If you need further assistance with Windows, let us know and will be glad to help.