c drive problemo

[Deleted member 374]

hi

so i have two hard drives on my pc, c and d, both of which have 950 gigs of storage each. i store all my steam games and whatnot on my d drive.

so uh, idk why, but my c drive says it has 486 gigs of shit on it but i know for a fact that it doesn't. i've tried optimizing, defragging, checking for viruses, searching for hidden files and read-only files but it's come up empty. the drive is fine and i have no viruses or malware on my computer.

i also don't have this problem on my d drive. the d drive is totally fine.

 

[swexs]

probs garrys mod unused shit and cache try cleaning it there's a thread somewhere it helped me a lot

 

[Deleted member 374]

probs garrys mod unused shit and cache try cleaning it there's a thread somewhere it helped me a lot

i selected every directory in my c drive and checked properties and it only came up with like 150 gigs. there's no gmod stuff there. i moved it all to my d drive.

 

[swexs]

then i dont know how to help you my mans

 

[Deleted member 374]

fuuuuuuuck

 

[Deleted member 442]

....Have you tried looking for another partition? You might have accidentally just misappropriated space during partitioning?

Pull up Disk Management and take a look at your drive.

 

[Gr4Ss]

Invisible folder eating up space? Most notably appdata

 

[Deleted member 374]

Invisible folder eating up space? Most notably appdata

nope. checked every directory in the c drive with winderstat and it only shows around 150 to 200 gigs.

....Have you tried looking for another partition? You might have accidentally just misappropriated space during partitioning?

Pull up Disk Management and take a look at your drive.

pulled it up, the drive is fine.

 

[Deleted member 374]

here's what i got in winderstat. 430 gigs of unknown shit.

 

[Koch]

here's what i got in winderstat. 430 gigs of unknown shit.

Win+X, CMD as administrator
chkdsk /r
sfc /scannow

reboot

 

[Koch]

Any luck with the above @dee pixel?

 

[Deleted member 374]

i'm away from my main pc at the moment but i'll give it a try once i get the chance

 

[Peter Green]

Also suggest trying
win+r
%temp%

Then removing everything in that folder, it might not fix your problem completely but it will get rid of some unnecessary folders.

 

[Ronald]

Win+X, CMD as administrator
chkdsk /r
sfc /scannow

reboot

Just a note @dee pixel this will likely take a while, depending on how large the drive is it could take a few hours. However, if it's a corrupted file then it would likely fix it.

 

[Deleted member 374]

oh lol it was a bunch of system restore points

lowered it to 220. it's fine now.