C Drive Lost 200GB+

[Conhead01]

Well today i logged onto my pc to find my C drive is saying only 4MB is free of 465GB The 4MB keeps fluctuating. Ive restarted my pc and its still saying the same thing. Yesterday there was about 200GB free. Help I don't know whats going on.

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

Hey there, Conhead01!

I'd recommend you to run the Windows Directory Statistics utility and check what is taking up so much space on your drive.
Afterwards, you should be able to run a cleaning tool and restore the free space. I'd also strongly recommend you to run a anti-virus/malware software to check if there is any infection you should be concerned about as well.

Good luck! Hope this helps you!
SuperSoph_WD

 

[Conhead01]

Hey there, Conhead01!

I'd recommend you to run the Windows Directory Statistics utility and check what is taking up so much space on your drive.
Afterwards, you should be able to run a cleaning tool and restore the free space. I'd also strongly recommend you to run a anti-virus/malware software to check if there is any infection you should be concerned about as well.

Good luck! Hope this helps you!
SuperSoph_WD

I would try this but my hardrive is currently at 0B free I cant download the program for windows directory statistics utility.

 

[SuperSoph_WD]

This seems rather unfortunate, Conhead01! 🙁 I'd suggest you to access and troubleshoot the hard drive through another computer.
Once you plug the HDD there, you should able to access your data and, hopefully, you can test its contents.
While at it, you should also do the virus/malware scan as well.

Best of luck!
SuperSoph_WD