Restore Origin games like Steam?

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Hi, i have reformated my hdd(cheers mrs josh for browsing dody sites with a load of spyware,adeware that brought my pc to its knees) and i have my origin games installed on a different hdd.

After i reformated and installed windows 7 again. i tried to click on one of my games and it said i need to download origin.

ok so download orgin, logged in and set the correct path for origin to find my games.

did it work? nope! origin fails to find the games and when i try to manually launch say for example fifa 12 it says this

Error Launching Game, the game does not appear to be insalled(it is installed u ****ing idiot) Please install it or try relaunching a game(**** re downloading all my origin games again)

i thought Origin was similar to steam where once u download your games, you dont have to re download or re install them if u reformat or move your whole collection on a new pc or hdd?

Something so basic missing from origin? or am i doing it wrong?

[Ferral]

See, this happened to me. I currently have MOH Airborne and Dead Space 2 installed on my D drive.

Origin recognises that the files are there and they say ready to install but when I click to install I get a similar error.

However, if I browse to the directory where I installed the games in the first place and find say MOHA.exe and double click it the game starts up immediately, same goes for Dead Space 2.

[directhex]

Origin behaves "like Steam" on paper, but it's very badly implemented. Guess you just found this first hand.