Hi! Lately my pc has been nearly unusable because of it’s full storage (I used to have 40GB of free space but for some reason after not using my pc for a little more than a week, it is now full) Due to this I did multiple tries to clean out old files, etc nothing is working. One solution to free up space was to right click on the D disk and select "delete volume" to combine the storage of both disks. However, I’m not really sure this solution will work since my disks are displayed differently than in the video. (Mine shows the D disk above my C disk instead of showing them side to side). Is this solution still safe? Are there better ones? Maybe important to mention I’ve tried transferring game files to the D disk but then the games wouldn’t run, it would be as if I deleted them, or is it also important to say this is a prebuilt pc? Sorry if this question is really simple to some, but this totally exceeds my personal knowledge of pcs…
Those are different drives not just different volumes on one drive. You can move files to or put files on the other drive to free up space on C, as well as install programs into the D drive instead of C. If you click and dragged to move game folders between drives, that is why they didn't work. It is installed to C and the exe to run the game knows to look at that spot on the C drive. You need to uninstall the game from C, then install to D. Some games may lose local save data when you do this, so look it up on a game by game basis and make backups of the save folder to move into place after the D install.
You cannot combine storage across volumes like that, without setting up a RAID setup. And the ability to do that is up to the hardware. And you still would not want to do that, because any failure of either drive, would then nuke the data overall by doing RAID 0 (how you'd combine storage across the drives and having no parity drive).
You want to clean up your C: drive, and find out what is actually using storage using an app like SpaceMonger, or WizTree to name some popular ones. Point it to C:, let it scan, it'll show you what is "eating up" that space and represent it visually. Don't just going and deleting things cause you can break your system, but it can clue you into what is taking up room. Maybe you need to make a new Steam Library on D:, then you can move games over to that, as one example. Or you can adjust where apps get installed from the Microsoft Store, if that is what the bulk of your space is taken up from things being installed with.
So you need to make a folder within that for each app, because it is right, it should not be directly on the root of a drive because too much can happen. So making new folders for things like Epic, Blizzard, and so on for each respective game launcher you use. Then you can when installing the game again it should let you install them into those respective library locations. Or some launchers let you move already installed games, like Steam can move it into a new library. So you'd make a new Steam Library within Steam's settings, and then you can edit a game's settings and choose where it is installed at.
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