Question 2TB HDD Claims to be full

[LDTheCourier]

Howdy,


I have a regular 2TB Seagate Hard Drive for my Steam games. Had it for a couple years now.

The last 6 months I've been getting notifications saying that the drive is running out of space.
So I uninstall a Steam game every time. But now I've only got 50GB of games installed with a total of 80GB across the whole hard drive.
though when looking on Computer, it says I have 1.50GB free.

It is also a directory for my Windows backups, but the backup folder takes up no space.

I have used WinDirStat to see what I could find. I found nothing.
I performed an error checking.. check. System claims the drive is fine.

Are there any other tests I could perform? Thanks!


Windows 7 x64

 

[SkyNetRising]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?

 

[LDTheCourier]

Can you show screenshot from Disk Management?

Here it is. F drive.

https://imgur.com/bXTgMzC

View: https://i.imgur.com/bXTgMzC.png

 

[SkyNetRising]

Yeah, it's almost full.
Check, if system restore is enabled on F:
(Control Panel\System\System Protection)
System restore should be enabled on C: only and disabled on all other drives.

 

[LDTheCourier]

It's disabled on F, and every other drive except C.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Then it's probably windows backups. User normally has no access to backup files and contents of backups folder will not be counted, when you view properties of the folder.
Run Backup&Restore from Control Panel and Disable windows backup.

 

[LDTheCourier]

Ahh yes. Backups are taking up a terabyte and a half.

Do you know what I could do to resolve this? I can't find a disable option.
Moving the backup location to another drive would cause the same problem over time.
I would think it's best I don't disable backups.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Run "Set up Backup" again, err - that would be Change settings.
Or you can set allowed space for backups to a lower value.

Have you ever restored anything from backup?

 

[LDTheCourier]

I have had to restore backups in the past.

Lowering amounts of backups stored would work.

 

[ElectrO_90]

I have had to restore backups in the past.

Lowering amounts of backups stored would work.

Manage space - 200GB should be more than enough, but if you want anything backed up that is important
I always use CLOUD as well for important things

 

[LDTheCourier]

Manage space - 200GB should be more than enough, but if you want anything backed up that is important
I always use CLOUD as well for important things

I'm not exactly sure on how to do that. When I go to change settings, it says that it's max backup storage is 558GB.
With the 80GB already on the drive, that does not reach 2TB.

 

[ElectrO_90]

Have you tried to delete/remove ALL backups?
If so, then try and set it.

 

[LDTheCourier]

Have you tried to delete/remove ALL backups?
If so, then try and set it.

I removed the oldest backup.
Doesn't seem like I have the option to set max storage.

 

[ElectrO_90]

How many backups do you see?
Have you set Explorer to see Hidden files?
If not do that, or use a better program like- Directory Opus (free for 60 days)
Will show all files, and size of folders etc.

 

[LDTheCourier]

Two main ones. 2018-19 and 19-19.
It appears it has deleted backups from previous years.

All files are not hidden.