Windows 10: My computer wont change my default storage from C: to D:

Hello my name is Charlie and I'm 17.


Recently something on my SSDs in a computer I build got corrupted. For a quick fix I bought a second hand hard drive from CEX and installed into the computer so that I could reinstall windows onto it, start fresh and wipe the SSD later on.

I noticed that the C: drive where windows is stored was getting filled up while my main D: was not in the slightest. I thought this was weird so I went into settings and under "change where new content is saved", I set it all to the D: drive. Unfortunately this didn't work and file kept getting saved to the C: drive that is now almost completely full. When downloading applications if it gave me an option I would change the location of the file to the D: drive however sometime it doesn't give an option. I have no idea what to do, I think it has something to do with formatting the drive however whenever I look up a solution I'm met with people telling me to go into settings which as I've already discussed hasn't worked.


Any help would be much appreciated,

Thank you,

Charlie

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