Windows 10: Windows System Storage incorrectly includes apps installed on external drive

Several months ago my son was in town and playing games using my computer but he installed the game on an external drive of his. However, my computer still shows these apps/games in the system storage and I can't figure out how to get rid of them. When I go to the system storage is says 91.8GB of storage used on the C Drive. When I click on Apps it takes me to Installed Apps. When I sort by size the largest is Valorant at 42.9GB and the next largest is Riot Client at 31.3GB. There are only 3 others that are larger than 1GB and they are between 4.67GB and 2.60GB. So I know that the total

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How to install new apps on an external storage drive on Windows 10?

Hi,

Thank you for posting in Microsoft Community and being a part of Windows 10.

I understand your concern about installing the apps on external drive. We are here to help you with this issue.

Follow the below steps to install the applications on external drive and check if it helps.

• Press Windows key from the keyboard, click on Settings.
• Click on System, and on Storage.
• Under Save locations in the right pane you will find an option
  New apps will save to.
• Select the drive you wish to save the new apps to and check if it helps.

Hope it helps. Get back to us for further assistance on this issue. We will be happy to help you.

 

External drive

Hi Richard,

There are several factors that can cause your external drive to not read DVDs even though the system is recognizing the device. This could be caused by a driver that needs to updated or corrupted files. For us to resolve your concern, kindly answer the questions
below:

• Just to confirm, the device that is not working properly is a external DVD optical drive?
• Were there any recent changes or updates installed on your computer?
• Have you tried to plug the external drive to a different port on your computer?

As a initial recommendation, we suggest that your run the built in troubleshooter in Windows 10. Kindly refer to the steps below:

• Type “Troubleshooting” in the Search bar and press Enter.
• Click on “View All” in the top left corner.
• This will display the list of troubleshooters which are built-in in the computer. You can click on
  Hardware and Devices from the list and you can run the troubleshooter.

This will check for common errors that affect hardware on your computer and attempts to correct them.

We look forward to your response after completing the steps.

 

unrecognised external hard drive on Windows 10

Since you already reinstalled the drivers of the External Hard Drive, let's run the
Hardware and Devices troubleshooter as it can resolve your concern. You can do that by following these steps:

• 
  Press the Start button.
  
• 
  Type and select Troubleshooting.
  
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  Click on View all on the left panel.
  
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  Select and run the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter.
  

If the Hardware and Devices troubleshooter doesn’t resolve your concern, we suggest that you change the letter of the External Hard Drive. You can do that by following these steps:

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  Press the Start button.
  
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  Type and select Control panel.
  
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  Select System and Security.
  
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  Select Administrative Tools, and a new window will appear.
  
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  Double-click Computer Management, and a new window will appear.
  
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  Select Disk Management that is located under
  Storage in the left pane.
  
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  Right click on the External Hard Drive that is not showing on the File Explorer.
  
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  Select Change letter and network path, and a new window will appear.
  
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  Select Change, and choose the letter that you want for the External Hard Drive.
  

After changing the letter of the External Hard Drive, we suggest that you reboot your laptop for the changes to take effect.



Let us know how it goes.



Regards.