Games still installed after factory reset?

[Rusek]

Hello, I had to factory reset my pc becasue it was working real bad and all I could think of was this, I deleted everything except my files and the games that were dowloaded seem to still be there but I can't uninstall them, I should have over 190GB left but have only 80, please help I can't download few games I wanna play

[ZanyScum]

Multiple variants:

1. Learn how to do it right. Create an USB-stick/-disk or DVD with an installation image directly from Microsoft (free to download directly from Microsoft). Now you can reinstall Windows while not keeping your old data and you will have a fresh installation, but perhaps without some drivers you need. Can happen. But this is the start to understand your Windows.

2. Delete these "wrong" old folders manually. Then you have space.

3. Try to get Steam to reintegrate these old installation of your games, so you don't have to download them again.

I am pretty sure there are more ways you can handle this situation, but these are the ones I currently see. I'd suggest variant "1", if you think you have at least average intelligence AND currently enough time so it will not hurt you if you'd be without your PC for some days. Might take you 4 hours to get it working, might take you 4 weeks to get it working.

[Iceira]

Buy external drev as so many do, even then steam do not recommended it.

so many has usbc or usb3.0 so many games can still run there.