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W10 writes into my D: partition...?
Hello,
I hope someone has some insight into this strange thing...
I have for years had my HD split into two partitions, one C:\ for windows and D:\ for my own data, not the stuff that windows insists on writing to C:\Users\<myname>\ but files that I create myself and want to keep track of myself. I also set most apps to read and write from and to the folders on D:. This has worked very well for me ever since Windows NT, maybe even before that.
So now I have W10x64pro on a Surface Pro 3, all brand new. I re-partitioned the SSD into C:\ and D:\ which worked fine. I haven't used the Surface Pro much to install apps or create any files, basically only emailing, surfing, watching videos. Now I discover that W10 has created a lot of files on D:\, some folders that I even cannot access. There is one folder named as my username that includes empty Documents and Downloads and Videos etc folders. There is one folder named "WindowsApps" that I simply cannot access, there is a folder "WpSystem" which includes "AppData\Local\Packages" folder with what looks like app settings, usage logs etc, and there is a fourth folder on D:\ WUDownloadCache which contains strange named empty folders.
Does anyone have a clue what on earth W10 has to do with writing on my D:\. I definitely did not set my Users folder to D:\, it is still under C:\Users. Windows should not write haphazardly all over the disks, this is crazy!
Does anyone know if I can just reformat D:\? And how do I stop W10 from writing there?