Storage Space Missing/Unknown

[dreiter]

Hullo, I been troubleshooting my Hard Drive for the past couple months trying to figure out why so much space is being used up. I have a very small drive 111GB. When I first installed Windows 7 about 1/4 of that was taken up. Over the course of a year installing a game or two with some performance software the hard drive was used to almost full capacity. I unistalled a lot of what I added to the computer but its telling me I only have about 10gb of space. Now, I done CC cleaner to a wide range of scanning programs to see what's going on. I just cant put my finger on it what is going on. Any help would be appreciated.

Current drive is: WDC WD1200JS-00MHB0 ATA

 

[Boogieman_WD]

Hey dreiter. What have you tried besides CC cleaner to get to the bottom of this? I'd suggest that you take a look at this article to try and determine what is eating up all of your space: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2018972/find-out-whats-using-all-the-space-on-your-hard-drive.html
It might prove useful.

Hope that helps.
Boogieman_WD

 

[dreiter]

Thank you for a quick reply. Some programs I was using are Wise registry, Megabytes (in case of a virus was causing it), Advance System Care, couple more but I forgot the names. Tried so many of them. But WizTree that you linked is something I been looking for. Showing me where the usage is at. Ty!

Update: Using WizTree I determined it was system restore taking up majority of my space. Thanks again!

 

[Boogieman_WD]

You're most welcome dreiter. When this happens, more often than not the culprit turns out to be system restore, or a lot of temporary files. The important thing is that you found out what was happening. I'm glad I could help.

Cheers.