[SOLVED] Why is my storage almost full when there's nothing on the drive?

[x00179]

https://imgur.com/a/6pCLFiM

View: https://imgur.com/a/6pCLFiM

 

[Pimpom]

Have you scanned it for file system errors?

 

[MJS WARLORD]

just wondering it this might help ... system restore creates restores points randomly but unlike years ago windows does not tell you it is doing it , when a restore point is created it can use around 3gb of memory , go to system restore and turn it off , next go back to hard drive capacity and see if you got much memory free space back.

I once had a pc that got stuck in a restore loop , every loop used hard drive space and did not stop until the pc crashed.

system restore is now considered by many to be a dead duck and i cant remember the last time i managed to use without the infamous message " nothing changed " message

 

[x00179]

Have you scanned it for file system errors?

I ran chkdsk and it said no errors, I also ran disk cleanup and defrag

 

[x00179]

just wondering it this might help ... system restore creates restores points randomly but unlike years ago windows does not tell you it is doing it , when a restore point is created it can use around 3gb of memory , go to system restore and turn it off , next go back to hard drive capacity and see if you got much memory back.

I once had a pc that got stuck in a restore loop , every loop used hard drive space and did not stop until the pc crashed.

system restore is now considered by many to be a dead duck and i cant remember the last time i managed to use without the infamous message " nothing changed " message

It says system restore is switched off

 

[USAFRet]

Is this one physical drive or two?

Install and run either WinDirStat, or WizTree.

Run as Administrator, selecting only the drive in question.
Post a screencap here.

Also, a screencap of your Disk Management window.

 

[x00179]

Is this one physical drive or two?

Install and run either WinDirStat, or WizTree.

Run as Administrator, selecting only the drive in question.
Post a screencap here.

Also, a screencap of your Disk Management window.

https://imgur.com/a/zA1Jg6X

View: https://imgur.com/a/zA1Jg6X

https://imgur.com/a/gY0iVr5

View: https://imgur.com/a/gY0iVr5

 

[x00179]

One physical disk

 

[USAFRet]

Well...1/2 your D drive is .zip files.

 

[x00179]

Is this one physical drive or two?

Install and run either WinDirStat, or WizTree.

Run as Administrator, selecting only the drive in question.
Post a screencap here.

Also, a screencap of your Disk Management window.

Sorry size wasn't shown in last pic

https://imgur.com/a/yfL6SkD

View: https://imgur.com/a/yfL6SkD

 

[USAFRet]

One physical disk

No, those are 2 physical drives.
Disk 1, 120GB for the OS
Disk 0, 1TB is the D.

 

[x00179]

it's backups

 

[USAFRet]

it's backups

I'm not seeing a lot of confusion.

470GB in .zip. 98GB in 'Hard disk image file'.

 

[x00179]

No, those are 2 physical drives.
Disk 1, 120GB for the OS
Disk 0, 1TB is the D.

Yeah the D drive is the one in question the backups didn't show until I ran as admin, thank you.

Is it safe to delete old backups?

 

[USAFRet]

Yeah the D drive is the one in question the backups didn't show until I ran as admin, thank you.

Is it safe to delete old backups?

Only you know how you created them and which ones to delete.

 

[x00179]

Only you know how you created them and which ones to delete.

I'm guessing system restore created them automatically.

I am going to delete all but most recent.

https://imgur.com/a/lFnd6Gp

View: https://imgur.com/a/lFnd6Gp

 

[x00179]

Only you know how you created them and which ones to delete.

Thank you, run as admin seems to have been what I was missing.