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‎03-29-2020 08:32 PM

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Product: HP Pavilion Gaming Laptop 15-cx0xxx
Operating System: Microsoft Windows 10 (64-bit)

I recently had to reinstall Windows 10 to my laptop and since then I have had a slightly annoying issue. I have a 1TB hard drive installed but it is not being used as the primary storage. Before the reinstall I did not have this issue. Is it possible I saved windows to the wrong drive? I have tried changing it so things are saved to the larger partition but it always reverts back. If I factory reset will this fix the issue and make the hard drive one "part" again? Is there a different fix?  I have attached 3 pictures for reference and I hope this helps.
Thanks!

Storage page 
Disk management 
My PC View 

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‎03-29-2020 11:04 PM

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@Sharp94 

 

You need to tell your machine to use different drive as default. Please try

 

   https://www.howtogeek.com/245706/how-to-change-the-default-hard-drive-for-saving-documents-and-apps-...

 

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BH
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‎03-29-2020 11:14 PM

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I have tried that unfortunately and am left with the results posted in the pictures above. I have also tried downloading apps (Ex. Steam) and they are default saving to the C: Drive instead of the larger F: drive.
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