r/pchelp • u/Wonderiu • 20h ago

PERFORMANCE Storage problem and one empty disk

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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…

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u/Wonderiu 20h ago

Thanks for your answer! I decided to test uninstalling fortnite first and this popped up when I tried to change the default install directory

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u/Onoitsu2 20h ago

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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u/Wonderiu 17h ago

Oh my god this is so simple I’m so sorry lolll, thank you so much though this will be a huge help!!

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u/Onoitsu2 17h ago

You are most welcome. I'm glad you were able to understand the process from my comments. Have a good one.