Problem With My Hard Drive

[Jackiboy100]

Hello, i have a 1 TB (1000 GB) hard drive and it was good entill around 450 GB it just started disappearing,last week i had 300 GB today i have 72 GB. I have not installed any new games or programs recently and i don't know what is going on. I use windows 7 64 bit .If someone can help i will be very greatful.

 

[IDontUnderstand]

Use disk explorer software (treesize) to see what is taking up the space.
Sounds a lot like virus and such to me.

Go through each steps and stop when things get better.

Run CCleaner.
Run anti-virus in Safe Mode.
Run another scan in its own rescue mode or similar.
Back up files onto a USB.
Format the drive and fresh install Windows.
Do not plug the USB back in until you've installed anti-virus again.
Once you've got everything set up including installing anti-virus.
Plug the USB back and and scan it ASAP.

 

[Jackiboy100]

Use disk explorer software (treesize) to see what is taking up the space.
Sounds a lot like virus and such to me.

Go through each steps and stop when things get better.

Run CCleaner.
Run anti-virus in Safe Mode.
Run another scan in its own rescue mode or similar.
Back up files onto a USB.
Format the drive and fresh install Windows.
Do not plug the USB back in until you've installed anti-virus again.
Once you've got everything set up including installing anti-virus.
Plug the USB back and and scan it ASAP.

When I Went to look for CCleaner it was not on my computer and its no longer on my brothers computer either,Is Formating The Disk The Only Way,What Happens When I Format Disk C will it remove all my games/mods etc... that i have on there or does it just get rid of viruses and stuff like that? (I dont have an anti virus softwere)

 

[IDontUnderstand]

You may download CCleaner, google it.
You should get an anti-virus for the sake of your current system and future systems.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832719116
Formatting C drive will delete everything on C, including all games and mods that are stored on the C drive. However, you may back up your files first so the files will still be with you after formatting.

Again,
1. Run CCleaner
2. Run anti-virus in Safe Mode
3. Run another scan in the anti-virus' rescue mode
4. Back up your important files onto a USB

Do the above first.

 

[Jackiboy100]

You may download CCleaner, google it.
You should get an anti-virus for the sake of your current system and future systems.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832719116
Formatting C drive will delete everything on C, including all games and mods that are stored on the C drive. However, you may back up your files first so the files will still be with you after formatting.

Again,
1. Run CCleaner
2. Run anti-virus in Safe Mode
3. Run another scan in the anti-virus' rescue mode
4. Back up your important files onto a USB

Do the above first.

Thank you,but the one thing i wont do is the format because there are a lot of mods i have tryed to get working which work now but if i do that there ,may be a risk of having to download like 400 mods again but i will do the rest

 

[Marek Fischer]

Click start > computer > left click your hard drive > properties > tools > check 😀

 

[IDontUnderstand]

Thank you,but the one thing i wont do is the format because there are a lot of mods i have tryed to get working which work now but if i do that there ,may be a risk of having to download like 400 mods again but i will do the rest

You don't need to format now.
You should be trying out the suggestions that I've posted before.
CCleaner
Anti-virus
Rescue Mode

Neither one of them involves format or losing data.

 

[Jackiboy100]

Use disk explorer software (treesize) to see what is taking up the space.
Sounds a lot like virus and such to me.

Go through each steps and stop when things get better.

Run CCleaner.
Run anti-virus in Safe Mode.
Run another scan in its own rescue mode or similar.
Back up files onto a USB.
Format the drive and fresh install Windows.
Do not plug the USB back in until you've installed anti-virus again.
Once you've got everything set up including installing anti-virus.
Plug the USB back and and scan it ASAP.

Well done that and it gave me a bit back (57gb) and then i just went to look in my youtube video folder (where i record all my games to) and i deleted all the videos that i had in there exept my Titanfall beta ones and it gave me 392 GB back thanks for all your help,i really do apreciate it.