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.
(upload to imgur.com and post link)

 

[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?

 

[JayGau]

Fisrt thing to do would be to empty your trash folder. Can be filled with old files if you don't empty it on a regular basis. Then delete temporary file and old restore points. It's easy to fill up a few GB on Windows without even knowing it.

You could also back up everything you have on your D, then use something like Minitool to delete the partition and extend the C partition to occupy the whole drive. It's much easier and less time consuming than a Windows fresh install.

 

[kanewolf]

Fisrt thing to do would be to empty your trash folder. Can be filled with old files if you don't empty it on a regular basis. Then delete temporary file and old restore points. It's easy to fill up a few GB on Windows without even knowing it.

You could also back up everything you have on your D, then use something like Minitool to delete the partition and extend the C partition to occupy the whole drive. It's much easier and less time consuming than a Windows fresh install.

Deleting the D partition will most likely break anything that has been installed to D:

 

[JayGau]

Deleting the D partition will most likely break anything that has been installed to D:

Of course. I assumed he just installed programs with the default installation (so on C) and use D for storage (or games), like 99% of people do and it's why he is running out of space on C.

 

[kanewolf]

Of course. I assumed he just installed programs with the default installation (so on C) and use D for storage (or games), like 99% of people do and it's why he is running out of space on C.

I guess it is just me that installs seldom used programs on D: ...