Steam downloads game on wrong hard drive.

[Habitak]

I'm currently updating PUBG. The game is installed on an SSD. However, the Windows Task Manager shows that a completely different hard drive, (a HDD), is Steam using 100% of its capacity. Can someone explain this to me and maybe offer a solution how it downloads the game in the correctly Hard drive.

[Elucidator]

People don't seem to report these bugs here:
https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SteamClientBeta/discussions/0/

Its not supposed to use the C:\ Drive when your game library is on D:\
Yes you can circumvent it using syslinks and whatsnot, but its something the steam devs should be notified about and then fix. It should work as is properly.

Why it happens? No clue. You can look through the logs (Steam/logs) to get a hint.
Solutions:

Systemic link (syslink). -- this causes a folder to redirect to another location. You can turn C:\Steam\Steamapps\downloading into D:\Steam\Steamapps\downloading for example.

Installing Steam where your games are. (then Steam cannot use multiple drives)

Check the library settings (maybe something is messed up)

[Iceira]

Enter steam settings and change default to right disk again.

This can happend then disk is near full, i have seen steam switch to disk with more free space.
You also cant change ongoing DL in the cue.

and game size is bigger today we are past 100gb, so ½ to 1TB free work space is now a fact.

[MancSoulja]

Originally posted by Gerd G. Geldspeicher:

I'm currently updating PUBG. The game is installed on an SSD. However, the Windows Task Manager shows that a completely different hard drive, (a HDD), is Steam using 100% of its capacity. Can someone explain this to me and maybe offer a solution how it downloads the game in the correctly Hard drive.

You need double the space of the full install on the drive you're installing to, in order to download otherwise, Steam will chose a drive with enough space on to download to.