Question C: drive randomly full?

[procat1234]

My C: drive have been full somehow in the past few months. As of right now, I only have 7.79GB of space remaining from the 149GB available. Sometimes, it randomly gets filled up to the point where there are only about 4.1GB of space remaining. I have a single 512GB M.2 SSD, split into a C: drive and a D: drive. Does anyone have any potential solutions for this problem?

Thanks in advance

 

[COLGeek]

Why split? How much space is available on the D: drive?

Where is your virtual memory (pagefile) located? If the C: drive, move it to D:, assuming you have more space there.

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[SkyNetRising]

I have a single 512GB M.2 SSD, split into a C: drive and a D: drive.
Does anyone have any potential solutions for this problem?

Please show screenshot from Disk Management.
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[procat1234]

Why split? How much space is available on the D: drive?

Where is your virtual memory (pagefile) located? If the C: drive, move it to D:, assuming you have more space there.

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I have about 96GB in the D: Drive.

As to answer the question "Why split?", my dad bought this laptop for me back when I did not know a thing about computers. Probably so I don't mess around in the system files and delete something important.

 

[procat1234]

I have school tomorrow, and I must prepare stuff for my final exam. Do you mind waiting untill tomorrow before I send the screenshot?

Please show screenshot from Disk Management.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[COLGeek]

Personally, the move of virtual memory to the D: drive is just a quick fix.

If me, I would completely reinstall Windows and my apps on a single partition (just a C: drive).

 

[faalin]

download and run windirstat, it will show you where everything is at. More then likely its in temp files or windows updates that windows hasn't cleared out.

 

[kanewolf]

First thing to look at is Windows restore point files -- https://www.techtarget.com/searchwindowsserver/definition/restore-point
The default setting can allow them to take up a large percentage of the drive. The above article shows how to adjust the amount of space for restore points.

 

[logainofhades]

Go to disk cleanup, and select the clean up system files option. You might have Windows update files eating up storage. Moving page file to D, as mentioned earlier is also a good idea, short term. Honestly, I would look into getting more storage. You can get 2tb M.2 Nvme drives for under $100. Same for 2.5" sata drives, if you do not have any available M.2 slots.

 

[Bob.B]

My C: drive have been full somehow in the past few months. As of right now, I only have 7.79GB of space remaining from the 149GB available. Sometimes, it randomly gets filled up to the point where there are only about 4.1GB of space remaining. I have a single 512GB M.2 SSD, split into a C: drive and a D: drive. Does anyone have any potential solutions for this problem?

Thanks in advance

Is the optimize app set up proper?