Saving to the D drive instead of C drive

tears76 · ‎03-24-2019

I had not realized that everything on my computer was saving to one drive. Well I think I have solved that and I am actually saving to my computer (i work with svgs and need them to be stored locally on the pc so I can view the thumbnails with the extension I downloaded to use anyway), I hope anyway. Through figuring this out I realized that I have some storage that is on the C: drive and then the majority being on the 😧 drive. All the computers I have used in the past you downlaod something it is on the computer, not going to one drive and not have two different hard drives, I want everything to be on the almost 1tb drive I have (d) and I think I have set that up now but how do I ensure that when I download something it is going to that drive and how do I access it easily like I would the desktop? I know these might be stupid questions and I am not even really sure I am explaining this right but I would appreciate any help anyone could offer.

So far when I have been downloading (after changing it I thought) stuff to the computer from one drive it is still going to the C drive and then I have to move it to the D drive folder. My husband made a short cut to the D drive folder on my desktop and I guess it is working okay, at this point I am really unsure and kind of wishing I had not bought this computer but I wanted something with a big ram and lots of storage for my work and business. it is also making me feel pretty stupid and I lot I was at least somewhat knowledgable about computers. Please help make this make sense and make it easy 🙂

REO51ST · ‎03-24-2019

Welcome to the HP Support Community @tears76

Go to START then SETTINGS.

Click on SYSTEM then STORAGE.

Then click on CHANGE WHERE NEW CONTENT IS SAVED.

REO

TheOldMan · ‎03-25-2019

@REO51ST

Excellent heads up. I would suspect many users did not know that feature of Windows was available.

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tears76 · ‎03-25-2019

I had done that and have it all set up to go to the D drive now, but when I was downloaded stuff back to my computer from the one drive it was still saving to C drive. is that because it is from one drive? will all new things I download go to d drive? also is the shortcut to a folder on the D drive on the desktop the easiest way to access that ?

REO51ST · ‎03-25-2019

@tears76

Open a new Word document

Just type TEST1 then save it as TEST1 and save it to the new location on the 😧 drive.

Then open a second Word document type TEST2 and save as TEST2.

When you now save, it should go to the new location automatically.

You will need to do that for APPs, Music, Docs etc.

REO

You have to tell it where to save before it can do it automatically.

REO

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