Windows 10: why is my D Drive showing that I'm using storage even though I'm not

look my D Drive showing that I'm using storage when I'm not using any the problem is that when I show hidden files nothing shows up so Idk what to do.the partition is completely empty yet it reads that it has 11 gb used and the problem is that I can't format it because it says that it's used in another program and it's not at all.

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Adapter for M.2 Drive

The adapter "steve108" listed is of the correct type.

You need one that supports a SATA M.2 drive, and the B+M slots. M.2 - Wikipedia

 

replacing C: with larger M.2 NVme drive and move programs installed on D: to the new M.2 drive

I have a DELL Desktop Computer XPS XPS8920-7581SLV-PUS Intel Core i7 7th Gen 7700 desktop running Windows 10 Pro with the Toshiba 250 GB M.2 NVme drive as the C: drive and a 1TB hard disk as the D: drive. I have installed a couple of games and applications to the D: drive due to the size of the install files.

I am now planning to replace the Toshiba 250 GB M.2 drive with a Samsung 500 GB 970 EVO M.2 NVme drive.

The procedure I plan to use is to:

• clone the Toshiba drive to a new Western Digital SSD installed in a hard disk bay
  
• replace the Toshiba with the Samsung
  
• clone the new SSD back to the Samsung
  

At that point I should have a bootable C: on the Samsung NVme drive.

The next step would be to move the games and applications from the 1TB hard disk to the Samsung NVme drive since I now have the space for them.

However it is not really possible to just move installed applications due to all the Registry changes that would be needed.

The two applications are Visual Studio 2015 and 2017 (both Community Edition) and the games are World of Warcraft, Destiny 2, and Fallout 4 (the last being a Steam download).

So I am looking for advice on these changes.

Alternative approaches

It seems that I have a couple of options:

• clone the 1TB hard disk to the new SSD and just use the new SSD as D:
  
• uninstall the games and applications then reinstall them to the new C:
  
• create a D: partition on the new NVme drive and copy the installation folders there
  

The easiest approach would seem to be to clone the 1TB drive to the new SSD as D: and move on. However I would be missing out on the NVme goodness with the games as well as the Visual Studio programming environment.

The most straightforward approach would be to uninstall the games and applications from the 1TB hard disk and then reinstall them to the C: drive.

The applications are Visual Studio 2015 and Visual Studio 2017, both Community Edition. These would both be straightforward to uninstall from D: and reinstall to C:.

The games are World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 from Blizzard and Fallout 4 from Steam. These games will require long download time probably two or three days over my internet access. And I would have to start Fallout 4 all over again.

Concluding thoughts

Perhaps the best option would be to combine the first two options.

Since the Visual Studio uninstall and install would be fairly painless I could do that while leaving the games on the 1TB drive and then do the clone of the 1TB drive to the new SSD. Then at a later date I could move World of Warcraft and Destiny 2 over to the NVme drive.

I would think that working with Visual Studio would be easier and quicker from the NVme C: drive while the games would be quick and responsive enough if the game assets are on an SSD.

 

M.2NVMe SSDs and hard Drives not recognized as bootable devices!

This is a new build on ASUS z690-Creator ProArt WiFi motherboard with BIOS Ver. 0702. CPU is Intel i9-12900kf and the drive I want to use for Windows 11 Pro OS is Samsung 1TB 980 Pro M.2 NVME. Also installed on Motherboard is a 2TB M.2NVME Samsung 980 Pro, and two 2TB Samsung 970 EVO Plus M.2NVMe SSDs. In the ASUS BIOS under "Boot Menu" is says: "The system cannot find any bootable devices". Under "Boot Priority" is says: "Choose one and drag the items." Then listed under "Storage Information" my four M.2NVMe drives and one other hard drives are listed. When I left click on any of these drives and try to drag them to the "Boot Priority" section left clicking on any of the drives and trying to drag them to boot priority does not work. They don't move. How do I get the ASUS BIOS Ver. 0702 to recognize the four M.2NVMes and the single hard drive as bootable devices and how do I get these drives under "Boot Priority"? Thank you