Something is eating my disk space on drive D

[kadziu1]

Hi Guys

I've got some problems with drive D - which is not the main drive.

https://ibb.co/dgGngH
https://ibb.co/df7oox
https://ibb.co/jzkr8x
https://ibb.co/hQgL1H

Anyone have any idea?

 

[Colif]

Try running windirstat on the drive, it will show whats using the most space (Bigger squares= bigger space)

https://windirstat.net/

 

[kadziu1]

It doesnt make sense

https://ibb.co/d0eevc

 

[Colif]

what happens if you highlight artykuly as that appears to be where all the usage is, then click on a box that matches the color using the most (in your above pic, purple = mp3 files

the percentages don't make any sense, do they... even if artykuly takes up 96.9% its still only using 7.1gb

have you run chkdsk and/or hdtune on hdd to make sure its just not losing space from age. In my last PC my boot drive was randomly losing space and I didn't know why.

 

[kadziu1]

Just made chkdsk and it seems to be fine

https://ibb.co/fVLKDx

Its ssd disk and notebook is not that old 2-3yrs

 

[Colif]

So this explains the difference between 142gb and its capacity, C is on same drive. C&D are just partitions on the ssd. So what is affecting D is also a problem for C.

try HDTune and check health tab.

Have you run anti virus? what is on D? One way to get all the space back is to format it.

 

[kadziu1]

Here it shows ok

https://ibb.co/mww4wH

 

[kadziu1]

Yes they are both on one drive and C & D are just partitions. I never used hdtune so dont know if it right but i think it show everything is ok :

https://ibb.co/bYNNix

 

[Colif]

not sure if it will help but can you right click start
choose disk management
take a screenshot and show here.

I have to go to sleep now but someone else might think of what I am missing.
Front page of windirstat shows right space and yet its not when you look at the drive. How odd.

 

[kadziu1]

Ok, Thx Mate.

I have post earlier printscreen from disk managment,but it didnt help me anyway.

https://ibb.co/fQnoOx

Now i have moved this biggest folder from D to C drive and there is nothing left on D, but still i miss space on D and its keep missing

 

[Colif]

that screen isn't disk management, it should look like

it probably won't explain the missing space but it might. Something eating 130gb and not showing.

I wonder if its backup - it would show in settings/update & security/backup if it were.

if there is nothing on D you need, try formatting it. right click partition in disk management to do that. Careful not to format C by accident.

I will look in here in morning.

 

[kadziu1]

Ok, sorry. Here it also looks ok :

https://ibb.co/jawjVc

Thx Mate.

 

[Colif]

I did look yesterday, the web site hosting screenshots wasn't working so I couldn't do a lot. It is working now but I have to go out for next 10 hours so I won't get a chance to help you until then... I will look at shots again. Disk management clearly agrees with the usage but what is using all the space is still a mystery.

 

[kadziu1]

Colif its a mystery for me also. I have move the one and only true taking space folder from drive D to drive C and that made me gain like more than 7gb, but after two days on drive D i've got 1,93gb left so i dont know what to do If You dont have any idea please write how to erase this partition D safely

 

[kadziu1]

Now its 362mb on drive D

 

[Colif]

Did you run anti virus scans as unless you have a torrent client that is keeping copies of files, I can't think of why its chewing your space.

formatting partition won't help if its something running on C that is causing it.

the instructions for win 10 are the same as Win 7, go here and click To format an existing partition - https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/help/17418/windows-7-create-format-hard-disk-partition

 

[kadziu1]

I'm using torrent but not on this pc, not anymore. I have etherum wallet but its on drive C in light mode.I have avg from few years- it didnt find anything

 

[Colif]

i have asked for fresh eyes on this thread, hopefully someone will help us figure out what I am missing.

if it was a hdd, I would say sectors are being corrupted and thats why nothing seems to be using the space up. But SSD don't have sectors and I don't think dying ssd would be gradual, and chkdsk & hdtune found no damage.

nothing in the file system according to windirstat is anywhere big enough to explain the losses. That why i suggested it was backup or file shadow copy but system restore isn't normally this hungry and should have shown up in windirstat as a yellow box marked unknown... it didn't.

Run malwarebytes and see if it finds anything.

Do you use onedrive?

 

[kadziu1]

Nope i dont use onedrive and never used malwarebytes but it showed nothing.

https://ibb.co/fFtQox

 

[Colif]

check system restore, see how much space allocated to it (probably on C anyway but worth a look).
run defrag (even though they say not to on ssd, it won't hurt - win 10 runs it once a month anyway)
could it be steam updates?


is hdd activity normal? Normal should be 0, any processes constantly using space?

Try booting into a linux live USB and see if it shows the contents of the drive. I don't get how its not showing in windirstat. There is a huge discrepancy between front page showing size of drive and space used, and what actually shows in the directory structure. Something is missing

not a virus
not maleware
not ssd - unless 2 tests are lying
not torrent (Did you delete it before and remove folders?)
not page file (as it should show in windirstat, I assume its on C partition)

running out of ideas besides a format of the partition. If that doesn't fix, need to look at what programs you are running.

 

[kadziu1]

i have run defrag.

Now it gave back some space to D drive : 2.49gb free but its eating free space on drive C :/

Hmmm now when i looked up in task manager there are a lot of programs running and eating a lot of resources with name :

Report problems with Windows-32bit(i have windows 64-bit) from task manager i go to resources manager nad there it is again its called WerFault.exe very strange.

https://ibb.co/jYp4yx
https://ibb.co/grSeWH
https://ibb.co/ffSPyx

 

[USAFRet]

1. Did you run WinDirStat as Administrator?

2. Do you have some capture thing going on?

 

[Colif]

Try this to fix werfault.exe

right click start button
choose powershell (admin)
type SFC /scannow and press enter
once its completed, copy/paste this command into same window:
Repair-WindowsImage -Online -RestoreHealth and press enter
SFC fixes system files, second command cleans image files, re run SFC if it failed to fix all files the 1st time, and restart PC

The werfault.exe is used for Windows Error Reporting. It is a feature that allows Microsoft to track and address errors relating to the operating system, Windows features, and applications. It gives you the option to send data about errors to Microsoft and to receive information about solutions.

 

[kadziu1]

Yes i have run WinDirStat as admin but it didnt show anything. Like ther's no 142gb on my D drive

Capture thing? No im not doing anything at the moment.

I have stopped WerFault but didnt get any memory back, maybe WerFault have taken memory space?

 

[Colif]

try sfc scan anyway.

werfault shouldn't be running I don't think.

a few suggestions i didn't offer: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_10-performance/windows-10-build-16299-suddenly-eating-up-my-hard/2920f366-5153-4ad2-b46d-9b51da3cc42c?auth=1