[SOLVED] Why is my hard drive so full?

[Ryallen]

Not sure where else to put this, but basically my 1TB hard drive someone has less than half of its space free, but I should only be taking up around 300GB of space. I looked through all my files and didn't find anything. I even downloaded WinDirStat to try to find the problem, and all it told me was what I already know. I'm not sure what else to do from here.

 

[rgd1101]

upload a screenshot of winddirstat and disk managment to imgur.com and post the link here

did you run winddirstat as administrator?

 

[Ryallen]

upload a screenshot of winddirstat and disk managment to imgur.com and post the link here

did you run winddirstat as administrator?

No, I haven't. I'm not sure how to either. Here are the WinDirStat pictures and the Disk Management pictures.

Tell me if something went wrong with them
Then I can re-post them

 

[USAFRet]

No, I haven't. I'm not sure how to either. Here are the WinDirStat pictures and the Disk Management pictures.

Tell me if something went wrong with them
Then I can re-post them

We need the whole window of both applications.

To run as administrator, right click on the shortcut used to open it, and select....Run As Administrator.

 

[Ketchup79]

Something is off. Windows shows the drive as 931 GB, but Windirstat only shows the drive as 525 GB. I suspect a hidden partition on the drive, but would need to see the lower section of Disk Management to be sure.

 

[rgd1101]

windirstat show the total used. which is 525GB, with 400GB free from disk mangement, look right to me.

 

[Ketchup79]

windirstat show the total used. which is 525GB, with 400GB free from disk mangement, look right to me.

Ah, that's it then. I haven't used WinDirStat in a while. So the numbers do indeed look correct.

 

[Ryallen]

We need the whole window of both applications.

To run as administrator, right click on the shortcut used to open it, and select....Run As Administrator.

Alright, sorry about that

upload a screenshot of winddirstat and disk managment to imgur.com and post the link here

did you run winddirstat as administrator?

Here's WinDirStat run as administrator
And here's Disk Management

Like I said, there should be a lot more free space than there actually is, I have no idea where it went.

EDIT: Never mind, I think I figured it out. I guess my math was really off. Thank for the help though, sorry to waste your time like that

 

[USAFRet]

WinDirStat shows your D drive as 516.7GB consumed
Disk Management shows 931 total minus 415GB free = 516GB consumed.

516 = 516

I'm not seeing an issue.

 

[Ryallen]

WinDirStat shows your D drive as 516.7GB consumed
Disk Management shows 931 total minus 415GB free = 516GB consumed.

516 = 516

I'm not seeing an issue.

Yeah, I figured it out. There were some things installed that weren't supposed to be installed. My math was also off for some reason. Thanks for the help though