Not sure exactly what occurred or how it happened, however... If anyone is able to help I would greatly appreciate it. Since I do not know much about computers I can find and send any more information which might be needed to solve this problem.
I have two drives, an SSD and HDD. My HDD is 1TB and had roughly 900GB of installed items on it (primarily Steam games). Out of the blue I went to play a game on steam and noticed my entire library appeared to be uninstalled. Assuming my drive wiped all my downloads, I checked through storage settings only to find my games all appeared to be installed and present within my drive--but not displaying on steam as installed. I also noticed some of the games I had previously uninstalled such as Battlefield 2042 which was 100+GB's of storage space was still appearing within the installed games on my drive, however the uninstall and modify feature was grayed out.
Even though I uninstalled the games weeks ago it appears they are still taking up space on my drive. After running optimization and diagnostic tests on my drive in hopes it would fix something for me, I must have done something to mess it up even more, because now when I view my storage settings and check the HDD it shows I no longer have 900GB of installed apps and features, but now it is 676GB of documents and only 165GB of apps and features (Refer to attached file). When I click the tab shown in the picture labeled as "D:\ (Files at drive root)" it takes me to what I assume are all of the files located on my HDD. I have looked through all of those files including steamapp files and cannot find any trace of the games I have uninstalled or any programs taking up extra space. Since I cannot find any trace of these games, yet they are still taking up space on my drive I have no idea how to clear up this space.
I apologize for the horrible explanation I am not very good with computers, so hopefully this might clear any confusion up...
-Steam showed all games being uninstalled, however my drive showed them all still installed.
-I then found multiple games which I had previously uninstalled, still appearing within my drive and taking up space.
-I tried optimizing, repairing, diagnosing, and other windows tools, with no success.
-After all of this, the hundreds of GB's being taken by what I assumed to be uninstalled games, are now showing to be 600+ GB of documents, when in reality I should only have 100GB or less in my documents.
I have two drives, an SSD and HDD. My HDD is 1TB and had roughly 900GB of installed items on it (primarily Steam games). Out of the blue I went to play a game on steam and noticed my entire library appeared to be uninstalled. Assuming my drive wiped all my downloads, I checked through storage settings only to find my games all appeared to be installed and present within my drive--but not displaying on steam as installed. I also noticed some of the games I had previously uninstalled such as Battlefield 2042 which was 100+GB's of storage space was still appearing within the installed games on my drive, however the uninstall and modify feature was grayed out.
Even though I uninstalled the games weeks ago it appears they are still taking up space on my drive. After running optimization and diagnostic tests on my drive in hopes it would fix something for me, I must have done something to mess it up even more, because now when I view my storage settings and check the HDD it shows I no longer have 900GB of installed apps and features, but now it is 676GB of documents and only 165GB of apps and features (Refer to attached file). When I click the tab shown in the picture labeled as "D:\ (Files at drive root)" it takes me to what I assume are all of the files located on my HDD. I have looked through all of those files including steamapp files and cannot find any trace of the games I have uninstalled or any programs taking up extra space. Since I cannot find any trace of these games, yet they are still taking up space on my drive I have no idea how to clear up this space.
I apologize for the horrible explanation I am not very good with computers, so hopefully this might clear any confusion up...
-Steam showed all games being uninstalled, however my drive showed them all still installed.
-I then found multiple games which I had previously uninstalled, still appearing within my drive and taking up space.
-I tried optimizing, repairing, diagnosing, and other windows tools, with no success.
-After all of this, the hundreds of GB's being taken by what I assumed to be uninstalled games, are now showing to be 600+ GB of documents, when in reality I should only have 100GB or less in my documents.