[SOLVED] Confused but satisfied?

[Jonathonc1991]

So my C drive filled up and so did my D drive with games...so to increase performance I began to clean house and somehow c drive was still basically full...I had gotten rid of every game, and cleaned out temp and emptied trash..I had no pictures or videos...c drive was still full...so I did a factory reset, now immediately after reset both c drive and d drive are a quarter of the way full, I thought maybe this was normal but I went to steam, and to my suprise my games i once downloaded are downloaded and playable!??? How are they here after i did a factory reset?? I chose not to keep my files but have a complete wipe....how are these games still here!?? Did I do something wrong?

 

[Jonathonc1991]

I was also in the middle of pre installing cyberpunk and after the factory reset, and reinstalling steam, it picked up where I left off in the download...what did I miss during the reset??

 

[Jonathonc1991]

Ah after looking deeper into it I think it's because they were saved onto d drive...so does a factory reset only clean house on c drive? If so how can I do the same to d drive? I just want room to boost performance when I play cyber punk

 

[Juan_Bijero]

I had a similar idea but went about it differently. I put all my important files on a 256GB USB drive and transferred them to my laptop. I then disconnected my C: drive and did a fresh install on my former D: drive which is my SSD. Once Windows 10 was set up on the new C: drive, I reconnected my HD and removed all the partitions using Windows 10 media creation tool. Once back into Windows, I opened up "disk management" right clicked on my now unformatted D: drive and created a new simple volume. I installed all my Steam games on the larger HD, while keeping about 250GB free on my SSD for CyberPunk 2077. This has improved performance overall and increased storage capacity.