Does formating a partition affect software on another partition?

Hi Guys,
A virus screwed my windows system, and I know the best option on these cases is formating (I cleaned it, but WinXP is not doing good).
Now, I have a multiple partitioned HD. Windows is installed on my C drive, but I installed a lot of games on my G drive. I wonder, if I format C and reinstall Windows XP on it, will my games on the G drive remain perfectly fine? I wonder if, despite that they are on G: they might be using/sharing some files from Windows.
The "saves" are on D: which is the drive that I use for my documents, so that is not an issue.
Thanks for the help.

 

The answer is a yes and a no, it depends on the game. I have seen that some games run perfectly fine without installing them on a new OS (MS Flight simulator, age of empires 2 etc). But the recent observation is that most modern games do not show this characteristics i.e if u reformat OS the game may not work. however since ur savegames are safe, u can try formatting and reinstalling windows on C: drive , changing documents location to ur pre- backed up documents folder, then trying to start the game. If the game does not start just reinstall the game. you can again play from where u finished as ur savegames are intact

 

The problem with Windows is that almost all applications use the registry to some extent, and they may also install some libraries to the system directories.

Just plan on reinstalling all your games if you have all the saves backed up. If you install the games to the location they're currently at, it will likely preserve any downloaded maps and so on as well, so don't just delete the folders.