What is taking up 99% of my 688 gb C drive?

[chris88051]

My PC has 688 gb of space on the c drive and 99% of it is taken up. I only have around 5 gb left. I am sure it is not my games because they only take up around 100 gb of space. When I checked restore points, it said that it took up 0 bytes.

 

[USAFRet]

My PC has 688 gb of space on the c drive and 99% of it is taken up. I only have around 5 gb left. I am sure it is not my games because they only take up around 100 gb of space. When I checked restore points, it said that it took up 0 bytes.

Install and run WinDirStat.
Run as Administrator, and post a screencap here.

 

[therealduckofdeath]

CCleaner is one of the more user friendly utilities for cleaning up temp folders and all the things you don't need.
If you're unsure what to delete Bing it first for advice and if you're still unsure just leave it.

 

[ingtar33]

win7/win8 has a known bug, where the event logs create an endless series of crap files.

If you're on win7/8, head over to c:\windows\temp; check the size of the folder. If it's huge (10GB+) this is probably the fix.
-clear out that folder (delete everything that windows lets you delete inside the folder, leave the folder alone)
-then navigate to c:\windows\logs\cbs
-run services.msc
-stop the windows module installer service
-delete the contents of the c:\windows\logs\cbs folder (don't delete the folder, just empty it)
-start the windows module installer service

problem solved.

Note, I've only seen this problem affect win7 and win8 systems. I don't think it affects win10, so check the size of that "c:\windows\temp" folder first.

 

[chris88051]

My PC has 688 gb of space on the c drive and 99% of it is taken up. I only have around 5 gb left. I am sure it is not my games because they only take up around 100 gb of space. When I checked restore points, it said that it took up 0 bytes.

Install and run WinDirStat.
Run as Administrator, and post a screencap here.

https://gyazo.com/3e9f29b635b24bb7dd88626555c96c5e
I tried running Windirstat as an administrator but every time I do it keeps freezing around 8% and goes "not responding".

 

[USAFRet]

My PC has 688 gb of space on the c drive and 99% of it is taken up. I only have around 5 gb left. I am sure it is not my games because they only take up around 100 gb of space. When I checked restore points, it said that it took up 0 bytes.

Install and run WinDirStat.
Run as Administrator, and post a screencap here.

https://gyazo.com/3e9f29b635b24bb7dd88626555c96c5e
I tried running Windirstat as an administrator but every time I do it keeps freezing around 8% and goes "not responding".

Well...that's only showing 187.3GB consumed.
1/3 of that in PACK files. I assume thats for a game?
As administrator would show the rest.

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please?

 

[chris88051]

My PC has 688 gb of space on the c drive and 99% of it is taken up. I only have around 5 gb left. I am sure it is not my games because they only take up around 100 gb of space. When I checked restore points, it said that it took up 0 bytes.

Install and run WinDirStat.
Run as Administrator, and post a screencap here.

https://gyazo.com/3e9f29b635b24bb7dd88626555c96c5e
I tried running Windirstat as an administrator but every time I do it keeps freezing around 8% and goes "not responding".

Well...that's only showing 187.3GB consumed.
1/3 of that in PACK files. I assume thats for a game?
As administrator would show the rest.

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please?

https://gyazo.com/32b1027ba7ac980ea25498a5bb08e6e5

 

[USAFRet]

My PC has 688 gb of space on the c drive and 99% of it is taken up. I only have around 5 gb left. I am sure it is not my games because they only take up around 100 gb of space. When I checked restore points, it said that it took up 0 bytes.

Install and run WinDirStat.
Run as Administrator, and post a screencap here.

https://gyazo.com/3e9f29b635b24bb7dd88626555c96c5e
I tried running Windirstat as an administrator but every time I do it keeps freezing around 8% and goes "not responding".

Well...that's only showing 187.3GB consumed.
1/3 of that in PACK files. I assume thats for a game?
As administrator would show the rest.

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please?

https://gyazo.com/32b1027ba7ac980ea25498a5bb08e6e5

Well...there's something between 187.3GB and 688.4GB.
Only you can discover it.

Delete or uninstall something large.
Then run WinDirStat again, As Administrator.

 

[chris88051]

My PC has 688 gb of space on the c drive and 99% of it is taken up. I only have around 5 gb left. I am sure it is not my games because they only take up around 100 gb of space. When I checked restore points, it said that it took up 0 bytes.

Install and run WinDirStat.
Run as Administrator, and post a screencap here.

https://gyazo.com/3e9f29b635b24bb7dd88626555c96c5e
I tried running Windirstat as an administrator but every time I do it keeps freezing around 8% and goes "not responding".

Well...that's only showing 187.3GB consumed.
1/3 of that in PACK files. I assume thats for a game?
As administrator would show the rest.

Screencap of your Disk Management window, please?

https://gyazo.com/32b1027ba7ac980ea25498a5bb08e6e5

Well...there's something between 187.3GB and 688.4GB.
Only you can discover it.

Delete or uninstall something large.
Then run WinDirStat again, As Administrator.

Would 20 gb be large enough?

 

[USAFRet]

Would 20 gb be large enough?

Possibly. All you can do is try.

 

[chris88051]

Would 20 gb be large enough?

Possibly. All you can do is try.

Is uninstalling something big supposed to make WinDirStat not freeze anymore?

 

[USAFRet]

Would 20 gb be large enough?

Possibly. All you can do is try.

Is uninstalling something big supposed to make WinDirStat not freeze anymore?

Possibly.
Your Disk Management shows 1% free space.
That may be causing it to choke.

 

[mdd1963]

First thing you might try is setting recycle bin properties to something far smaller than it's default 10% of the drive for Win7 (I think); if that's accurate, 68 GB would be rather unnecessary for a reserved recycle bin.....

 

[mdd1963]

well, there *was* a portable CCleaner somewhere, but, having difficulty finding it now...

 

[chris88051]

Would 20 gb be large enough?

Possibly. All you can do is try.

Is uninstalling something big supposed to make WinDirStat not freeze anymore?

Possibly.
Your Disk Management shows 1% free space.
That may be causing it to choke.

I used another WinDirStat that was supposedly a fix for the 1.1.2 WinDirStat and got this on administrator: https://gyazo.com/0bf0b2651128d541f7ed27acfe7340b0

 

[USAFRet]

I used another WinDirStat that was supposedly a fix for the 1.1.2 WinDirStat and got this on administrator: https://gyazo.com/0bf0b2651128d541f7ed27acfe7340b0

Well..it appears you have a few hundred GB of .js (javascript) files in your Windows folder/subfolder tree.

If you click on one in that large space that's taking up 80% of the window...at the bottom left it tells you what and where it is.
What might those be?

If it is not something you did....how's your malware situation? Run any deep scans with multiple tools lately?

 

[chris88051]

I haven't run any scans lately.

 

[USAFRet]

In that big space, click on one of the greenish/bluish spaces.
What and where is it?

That may lead you to discovering what that is.

 

[chris88051]

In that big space, click on one of the greenish/bluish spaces.
What and where is it?

That may lead you to discovering what that is.

Yeah. I clicked on it. It's taking a long time to load though because WinDirStat is not responding.

 

[pineapplenotonpizza]

Okay by your screenshot it seems that there is something that is creating a MASSIVE amount of .js files in your Windows folder. I would download HitmanPro and use the trial (with a fake email and name) and scan. Second, I would use WinDirStat to see where the 500+GB of .js files are stored and post another gyazo here, or if you know what you're doing, delete the files. Only delete those.

 

[chris88051]

Okay by your screenshot it seems that there is something that is creating a MASSIVE amount of .js files in your Windows folder. I would download HitmanPro and use the trial (with a fake email and name) and scan. Second, I would use WinDirStat to see where the 500+GB of .js files are stored and post another gyazo here, or if you know what you're doing, delete the files. Only delete those.

https://gyazo.com/8baa51d82efd95ea97530fd361469fee

 

[chris88051]

In that big space, click on one of the greenish/bluish spaces.
What and where is it?

That may lead you to discovering what that is.

https://gyazo.com/8baa51d82efd95ea97530fd361469fee
After WinDirStat finally responded, it showed a bunch of these files^

 

[USAFRet]

In that big space, click on one of the greenish/bluish spaces.
What and where is it?

That may lead you to discovering what that is.

https://gyazo.com/8baa51d82efd95ea97530fd361469fee
After WinDirStat finally responded, it showed a bunch of these files^

OK...what folder are those in?
AS above, what do your malware scans show?

Several hundred GB of those is NOT normal.

 

[chris88051]

In that big space, click on one of the greenish/bluish spaces.
What and where is it?

That may lead you to discovering what that is.

https://gyazo.com/8baa51d82efd95ea97530fd361469fee
After WinDirStat finally responded, it showed a bunch of these files^

OK...what folder are those in?
AS above, what do your malware scans show?

Several hundred GB of those is NOT normal.

It appears that all those files are in the "Content.IE5" folder, which is within "Temporary Internet Files", and also within several other folders. I'm trying to delete that file but it's taking a long time for the whole folder to load. I will do a malware scan.

https://gyazo.com/001f7d65ee25f17c6d693b51df4df296
The folders that precede content.ie5^ My access to those folders are denied so I am able to delete all those javascript files right now.

 

[mdd1963]

you can scan the drive outside of Windows, using Kasperky or Bit Defender Rescue CD, or even Defender Offline....

https://support.microsoft.com/en-sg/help/17466/windows-defender-offline-help-protect-my-pc