New HDD Shows up as full?!

[Blake2004]

Hi I bought a WD Blue 1TB HDD a week ago and it was working completely fine. This was my secondary storage on my pc. I installed call of duty (which was about 25gb) and it ran fine.it showed up as about 900gb left on that drive. It ran fine for the next few days until today I went to launch call of duty when i got a message that said fatal error and that my storage was full. I then went to this pc and it says there is 1gb left on my drive.
Please help.
Thanks Blake.

 

[DR_Luke]

If you can, check to see what is using all the space with WinDirStat (https://windirstat.net/). Something is definitely not as it should be.

 

[Blake2004]

If you can, check to see what is using all the space with WinDirStat (https://windirstat.net/). Something is definitely not as it should be.

ok thanks ill try it

 

[Blake2004]

BTW everyone trying to help the only folder that is there when i click the disk drive is my steam library

 

[mbarnes86]

Hi

Try the WD datalifeguard 4 Windows diagnostics program to make sure there is no physical damage to the hard disk
Then try chkdsk

regards
Mike Barnes

 

[ac13044]

go to disk managment see your 1tb drive check it is not partitioned at 900gb backup your steam folder to anthor hdd format using disk management or do the following below

1)go to start
2)type"cmd"
3)type"diskpart"
then write all these comands
list disk
select disk 1(replace 1 with your disk,u can check your disk by checking the size of your disk in "list disk")
clean
create partition primary
format fs=NTFS
exit

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there Blake2004,

Sorry that you are facing some issues with your WD drive. 🙁

I believe it would be nice to back up the important data stored on the drive, if any.

After that, you can go to Disk Management and see if the whole drive is allocated. See if there is some unallocated space over there. (black bar on top)

Apart from that, you can run both short and extended DLG tests on the drive, as mbarnes86 suggested: http://products.wdc.com/support/kb.ashx?id=T1UmC0

Let us know how this goes,
D_Know_WD

 

[ac13044]

thanks happy to help also turn of system restore for your externals hdd if you defrag as the do take up a lot of gbs when you defrag a drive that has system restore enable on the hdd target. system c: of course enable or disable up to yourself.