{"id":7417,"date":"2021-11-24T03:15:18","date_gmt":"2021-11-24T03:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&p=7417"},"modified":"2021-11-24T03:15:42","modified_gmt":"2021-11-24T03:15:42","slug":"main-drive-mysteriously-full","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/main-drive-mysteriously-full\/91944.html","title":{"rendered":"Main Drive Mysteriously Full"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have Win 7 64 bit installed on a 120Gb SSD, plus some apps and programs. I re-installed Windows on the drive about a month ago when I bought a new Mobo and CPU. I can’t remember the exact amount on the drive a few days ago, but it’s usually around 70 Gb max. Before re-installing windows the drive had about 40Gb free, and that was a years worth of accumulated programs. I have even less installed on it now.<\/p>\n

The strange thing is that today I noticed the drive was in the red zone when I saw it in Windows Explorer My Computer. It shows only 10Gb free of a possible 111Gb. This makes no sense to me. I opened the drive in an explorer window, highlighted all files and folders, and right clicked to check properties. It shows only 32 Gb – which is possibly a realistic amount considering the fresh install a month ago. I have two other HDD’s which contain media and games – none of my games are installed on the C drive. Here is a screenshot of the contents of the C drive as they appear in the explorer Window.<\/p>\n

http:\/\/oi61.tinypic.com\/14d25tw.jpg<\/a><\/p>\n

Like I say, right clicking those files and folders and checking properties shows only 32Gb. I emptied the recycle bin which contained 12Gb of material and that didn’t change the available space on the drive. Neither did running disk cleanup.<\/p>\n

So I’m totally stumped as to why it’s showing full. What else could account for the drive showing so full?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":0},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-7417","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/7417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7417"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=7417"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=7417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}