Hard Drive Full for No Reason Windows 10
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- Опубликовано: 21 авг 2024
- Hard Drive Full for No Reason Windows 10
Hard drive mysteriously full? Here is a weird problem that just showed on on my windows 10 machine "hard drive says it's full when it's not" so I started to delete content from the hard drive, because it was in the red and it was still quite full. So I did some more troubleshooting and found the problem. I will show you what is taking up space on my hard drive on Windows 10. What was it? watch the whole video to find out.
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Speaking of Space, I have Avast free antivirus and every now and then a pop-up appears saying I have items slowing my computer down and yet there is barely a lot of GB in my C Drive
@@JadenYukifan28 avast is a scam
@@MercDaHaters I have Avast and I have no issues with it
@@JadenYukifan28 its wastes all of your disk space and slows your pc a crap ton
@@JadenYukifan28 it doesnt even let you delete it, if you do it secretly runs in the background at full disk space
I always get scared that if I find an unidentified file like that and am about to delete that I'm going to delete something massively precious like family photos or videos.
same
@Deep Moticons We are hoarders
@Deep Moticons it’s precious memories, don’t go around the internet telling people what they should and shouldn’t do, that’s so fucking bizarre to think you have to right to do that. you’re very strange for NOT thinking old family photos are important. secondly, you don’t know their life. they could’ve had the worlds greatest parents and they died and all they have to remember them is photos. you never know someone story so don’t be so quick to hop onto their case on why they think photos are so important.
@Deep Moticons what a sad fucking life eh?
@Deep Moticons damn yea you for sure got no family
this is great but you do not mention which directory or subfolder the Desktop folder is located.
This problem had me puzzled for a long time. This video put me on the right track, thanks to your approach. My problem was a folder 'c:\system recovery" (From a DELL product). Eventually I got rid of it. It had naught (zero) space when viewed in explorer but the folder was being incremented on a regular basis by some backup system. Eventually it accounted for about 85% of the space on the SSD.
Thank u so much this was alot of help
Does this affect any thing in the computer if deleted
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Yes, let's praise him who hath said "deleteit" even though he doesn't know what it is.
It is the backup utility from W7 which creates recovery points for system recovery. The system will create the folder again as long as you do not deactivate the W7 backup utility in programs and settings. Note the folder name is the same as the computer as the W7 backup utility was activated. So no glitch at all!
Can i delete the "recovery (D:) drive? Or do a "disk cleanup"?
I have the same problem but can't find the file that he sees. Is there another name for these backups?
i do not have W7
so how do we stop it from recreating the folder again?
@@floridagirl386 I recommend you to do the D: disk disk cleanup
It looks like you have activated Windows backup, long time ago!
No, I never used windows backup, also why was the icon desktop and showing as empty and 0 files? also zipped files named as backup, very strange.
@@Britec09 Hi Brian, all of the Windows image files I create look exactly the same - 0 bytes - but they restore fine. Seems to be a bug with Windows miscalculating it's image file sizes.
@@JasonBassettThurrock Yea Windows is lazy and terrible nowadays
@@Datenkabel Exactly - that's why I have not used Windows for about 15 years, except under duress. I'm quite happy with any Linux distribution.
@@JasonBassettThurrock can you plzz help ? my c drive is full for no reason !! plz plz plz help meeee
this happened to my sister's laptop 2 weeks ago. the c drive is red so i cut and paste her files on the more spacious d drive which freed up 14gigs. then when i was browsing, i looked in file explorer and saw the 14gig became 11, then 10. looked in windirstat and the c drive is somehow full of dll's. since i partitioned the c, i just reformatted.
will you be doing a follow up video on this? I really want to know why it got tons and tons of data on it but it displays as 0 bytes in properties.
Its a virus.
When you scan with an antivirus it wants you to pay an extra fee.
Well I can't prove it. But that's my conclusion based on where the bread crumbs lead. The company is hitting you up for protection fees.
@@noahriding5780 no it's not, it's the backup image folder, it's so big that it shows up at 0 bytes
@@andreu16 i cant find that on the c drive.
I, too, had mysterious SSD drive full but my files didn't add up. I'd done all the clean disc, compress, remove hibernation, delete old files, etc. and still only had 1G left. After viewing this, I started to look for files that were empty that might not have any reason. Looking for folders/files by size didn't work because, like you demonstrated it has 0 bytes. In the Settings > Storage, my "Other" files used much of my space. Clicking in there, I saw that an "Apple" subfolder under my User folder was very large, but when I clicked on the actual folder, it had 0 bytes. I deleted this, and BINGO! Just like you showed, it mysteriously had 35G hidden that freed up on my C:\drive. I've been scouring the web for a week now trying to figure this out.
Thanks so much for sharing your experience!
DESKTOP-9EP4AH8 is your Aconis 2020 backup directory.
I'm surprised tech savy britec missed that. Thanks for explaining what the video didn't.
Same issue on my backup drive. Win 10 suddenly started using GB of space in a 0 byte file which had the same name as my laptop. As I do already mirror backup I reconfigured the Win 10 backup just to do the User directory (instead of the whole disc) and changed it to once a month as I don't normally store stuff in User. Now it works OK and plenty of space on my backup drive.
holding your mouse on a file and see how many gbs theres in helpt me so much thanks :D
If you hit properties of the file you can see how much storage it’s taking
@@mrsnake1278 and then i almost jumped out of my gaming chair when i saw that one file was 256gb
I need a bit of help, I have absolutely nothing on my computer and it's saying there's loads of storage being taken up. I've combed through everything and deleted as much as I can, but there's still "low storage" !
when i do it, the bar moves in reverse, it adds instead of reduces.
where can I find this folder
I do not know where it is located in my device
me neither, can someone help us?
Mine is on the hard drive that i want to delete it from "D". Click on This PC while in your files. And from there click on the hard drive thats filled up. The file should be there.
@@elgoblino5342 What, that doesn't narrow it down!
window image backup
I highly suspect Windows backup as the culprit. You may set up a backup schedule in the past then forgetting about it. Taking up over 1TB is indicitive of a progressive backup with the occasional full system image. It's naming convection of "DESKTOP-9EP4AH8" is typical of Windows naming the backup as the name of your PC during installation of Windows.
I could be wrong but from my experience that what I believe it is. And I also mention it could be a backup schedule you previously set and forgot because setting up a back using the Windows built-in backup tool requires a few steps to go through in order to fully set it up. Even if you just accepted all default options, Windows Backup will always try to select a drive with the most space and with the best redundancy. If all you have for backup drives are more hard drives, then it'll just select the drive with most space.
very strange, because I never use windows backup, I use Acronis true image which is installed on the system, its a strange one.
@@Britec09 I've just looked at my own backup file on my NAS. That's definitely a Windows Backup file structure you've got there. At 3:40 when you opened the image and saw the folders "Backup Set {Date} XXXXXX", with the obvious exception of the date stamp, my backup structure is the same as yours. Also in the same root folder with the image exists, you'll also see a 1KB file named "MediaID.bin" which is the reference file Windows uses to look at backups, that way Windows doesn't hammer your storage solution scanning all files unless you open them.
It's a very weird glitch when the Properties windows shows 0 bytes used, as mine sits at 18.9GB so I can't explain that. But if I were you, check your backup settings from within the classic Control Panel (using the Settings app will eventually open the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) CPL anyway) and disable it since you use Acronis.
I have never used windows backup, so I am very surprised how all of a sudden I have backups
@@Britec09 You, or I, may not have used Windows Backup, but Windows surely did. This would be fine for inexperienced people, but for people like me that manually back up data, I don't need this auto-bloat. I've been struggling with this for months. I have a game drive that I deleted 80% of the games because of the "mystery back up" filling up external Hard Drives. I'm elated and furious at the same time. Just recovered 400 gigs of space. The progress I made in those games is gone. One of the reasons I love Linux, nothing requires terabytes of space to operate, even 1:1 backups of the entire operating systems.
Earlier today while using my PC, I moved a game from one drive to another and began updating some of the games. Keep in mind that I had roughly 100GB left on each drive. Then all of a sudden, dor some reason it shows that I now have only 20GB on my main drive and 300GB left on my D drive. I lost over 60GB on my C drive and gained over 200 on my D drive! The storage seemed to have increased and decreased on both drives. What do I do!?
i edited about 40 pictures on my computer. Lightroom.
C: drive was at 60 gigs free.
I export to another drive. and i delete all photos from lightroom. and all the sudden i have less than 20mb left on my c: drive.
I have no clue what to do. i cant find any weird files or anything. Please help!
How you solved the problem
@@nandhakumars7800i always see the questions but i never see a simple “yes” or “no”🤦🏾
Same bro help plsss
I have this exact problem too, no one understands my pain especially this is my new pc😢😢
Thx I was getting annoyed every time my drive fills up for no reason. Btw you earned a new subscriber
Where is this file located. I just can't find it. Please help
did you find it?
Brian, have you got 'Auto Backup' switched on? If you have the auto backup is probably replicating itself rather than backing up only new files!
What a weird glitch, I suppose if it builds up over time its easy to overlook/hide 👍
i found out that, its made by microsoft and microsoft doesnt want you to know that there are some files that are mostly "not important". So they made it private as putting 0bites as a file.
Thanks, this helped a lot! I found some unnamed folders in the windows servicing folder which was the culprit and everytime I deleted a ton of videos photos and other files a day or two later it'd be completely full again.
Wii Roms take up quite a bit of space 😉👍 wow! I have that desktop icon on my wireless drive. Thx Bri
Thanks
I have this same problem that I have on my laptop and it is horrible I’m so glad I searched this up on RUclips your a life saver
me too thanks for sharing already supscribed
WHY ARE ALL MY VIDEOS AND FILES DELETED??!?
This worked great man! Thanks very much for the helpful video.
I'd really want to know what that was before deleting it! I've got the low memory problem on my C drive, with Documents and other folders supposedly holding more than they are...
My hard drives are not showing folders and nothing is running on it"for example" If there are 100 files inside a folder, but when I open properties, it shows fewer files then 100 But when I copy and paste this file, it shows copying 100 files, but when the paste is completed, then i go to properties it still shows fewer file please help me 🙏🙏😔
Be careful as you go around deleting random files especially if you have games it might be a game file a simple 200mb file can make you re-downloading all the 10+ gb game files
You should always be careful on what you delete off your hard drive that goes without saying
@@Britec09 what annoys me the most is it keeps trying to add more programs without my permission. So then I have to keep scanning it with sfc /scannow chkdsk C: /f to stop the crap that keeps feeling it up. It could even be bitlocker🔓 doing it again. Sometimes I think windows 10 is a bit of a pain in the ass, I'm sorry to say. I think I'm starting to get really sick of windows 10. I think I'm gonna have to change over to Linux Min🖥️t📗, 🐧 I hope Linux Mint isn't as disappointing as windows 10. I wonder if Linux Mint is the same situation as C drive cos windows 10 is nothing like windows XP :service pack 3: 2002, or windows 7.
I know when you upgrade to windows 10 it'll save your old windows version in a folder in case you wanna roll back.
Yeah that is a different thing.
That's why you do a clean install of Windows 10.
Update files from patches might be clogging up my C drive to the red.
Hard Drive Full For No Reason Windows 10*
Looks like a Windows 7 backup file.
yeah, but how? I have never used it.
@@Britec09 That's a good question. I've had odd behavior from it before. I used to use it back when I had Windows 7. I then started using a 3rd party program to make backups. I deleted all backups made with the Windows backup program (which is the same Windows 10 still uses), and even though it showed as completely gone (there were no files remaining om the partition), the drive was nearly full, as it was before removing them. I ended up having to format the partition to regain the disk space. I'll never use Windows utility to backup ever again.
Where is the backup file?
@Britec09 Out of interest, would Disk Clean Up have worked?
Great video Bri. I'm going to bring this issue up at my computer club meeting tonight. Thanks.
Figure out the cause?
Useful video, thanks. Unfortunately I'm having the same issue but cant seem to be finding that file unless its under a different name. Very frustrating. Afraid to even guess what file to delete. Any suggestions?
same problem
@@awnialholi72 My issue was a file in my Mcafee folder, called them and they fixed it with in mins. Good Luck!
@@asaroufeem how were you able to find out what file was the problem? (Sorry for asking almost a year later.)
Dang, this is fascinating! I'm checking my computer now! Thanks Brian for this find.
You're welcome.
Thanks for that bit of information I had this nonsense with my bigger pc it drove me mad so I unplugged it and am waiting for my local council to come and dispose of it, after seeing you do this it’s made me change my mind, now I know why I can’t get anymore updates for windows 10 as it’s too full, I’ll be dealing with this when I get home from work today and on my laptop too, I really appreciate what you’ve just shown us it’s very informative thank you so much🙏🏽👍🏽😊
i cant find this file can anyone help me find it?
So basically, this video should be titled "durr idk why but yeah i deleted it but IDK WHY"
You said the same thing like 20 times, .... Get to the POINT!
Tbh look's more like some kind of worm that replicates file's until your drive becomes unresponsive/slow/breaks
Ferdinand van Zyl: Maybe a virus
defo a virus
That file is made by Acronis, or sometimes Resilio. I did see an Acronis folder on the file directory in the video so that is likely it.
what is acronis? or resilio?
@@chocoteddyyy different file transfer or backup programs.
@@finitesound thanks!
That’s crazy, i don’t know why that file was so big but it had 1.4tb on it for me I’ve been full on storage for months and had no idea why thank you for making this video
When I open Recovery D it says this folder is empty but it is full. Can someone help?
Hi. How did you find this desktop folder? I only have one and it's where all my shortcuts and files are stored.
did you solve the problem?
Well, I was told to disable the cistern restore. One of my friends also had the same problem and he says that when that setting's on, the problems starts and Microsoft knows about that little glitch but, they just won't admit to knowing about it.
@@OrphanBee thank you so much i will turn it off then
My C: disk has 2 MB left at the moment and I have no idea how to fix my issue, it randomly changes to like 20 MB or 800 kb sometimes. PLEASE HELP ME NOTHING WORKS
man you are going waay to fast
Hello, i have same thing on my laptop called DESKTOP, i am kinda worried so im gonna make it quick, if im gonna delete it will my games, files, etc will be deleted also and ill need to reinstall everything?
In the past, I already had this problem
I have had it once before many years ago.
@@Britec09 OK
that is actually a ton of backups your computer automatically saves so that actually held up a f ton of space
how would i remove it all
@@Tollie314 just delete the file
Couldn't that be some compressed or encrypted stuff from a shared network or from somewhere else?
Did you try to decompress or decrypt it before deleting? Obviously a lot of files not allowed for the user to edit.
Edit: Or maybe it's just more win10 bugs.
Where is this huge file I cant find it
It happens to me once every few months, the disk gets full for no reason whatsoever. But I haven't been able to find out the reason. One folder seems to be jam-packed with files but they don't show up anywhere.
yes but how do you get to the backup stuff?
Thanks brother because of you I just sit my ass in front of my computer for a whole hour to check every single file in my out of space disk and finally I found it because of you iam really thankful to you keep the good work
Great tip. Off to fire up my machine to see if I have it.
What are D Backup? How were these files created?
Is there anyway to find the file without trial and error
You surprisingly sound like 3kliksphilips xD
I keep loosing space on my C drive and now I am down to just under 3gb left on it but when I check the properties for the entire C drive it only adds up to 58gb so on my 120gb C drive there should be still over 50gb free, only yester day it was showing 16gb free and now today less then 3gb, any ideas.
I'm having the same problem on my Samsung external drive. It reads 860 MB free of 931 GB but I deleted like 50 GB of data from it and it still reads that. I unfortunately don't have that Desktop file that you deleted. Any help would be greatly appreciated
I know the properties said it was empty but wasn't it possible to stop the delete so that you could have a look to see some of the content?
could any1 help me i can't find it
Thank you!!! Luckily i found this video before deleting my games
Yeah I have the same problem but I really can’t find the file because it’s on my main hard drive (note: it’s probably another problem)
its a hidden file by Microsoft, only way you can find that file is by doing at CMD-run as adminstrator = sfc /scannow chkdsk C: /F
There's over 1TB on this computer that I can't find. I don't know where these files are or what is stored.
Which video recording software did you use?
NOOOOO!!!! NEVER DELETE THAT FOLDER!!! You may have resolved and solved that problem with your computer, but you just caused the problem to double somewhere else!!! When you go inside of a folder and it shows nothing is there, their most certainly is a lot there!!
Let's say you are emptying your phone to computer. When you copy and paste everything, you also are taking out of your phones permissions that you give for these apps to run correctly. And that's for every single app, every single permission that is inside of your permissions. That includes all of your Gmail one by one. And you may have thousands of Gmail's but anything and everything inside of a computer is a piece of data as is your phone. You cannot see it because it only complies with your phone not your computer so you need to put it back in your phone for it to register and show you what it is and if you want to keep it. If you do want it, make a folder for it before you put it in your computer and label it. Each one. For example every time I empty out one of my phones into the computer I will make a folder called phone data and then I'll just grab everything that I can't see and put it in that folder and look it up another day but make sure you put on that file which phone you are referring to because it may not have the same apps as a different phone that you have stored in your computer. I edit this comment on this post I don't know how many times and it's past 4 in the morning but I hope I phrased it in the way so everyone could understand. I'm not a computer geek, I compare myself to an old dog that refuses to learn new tricks because I'm too damn stubborn so I suck at computers but I do love solving problems. And so when this came across to me and I deleted it one time and I couldn't find information the next time, I'm back track my steps. I told myself anything I don't understand I'm going to put in a file and after I lost it I realized I need to label it precisely on a way I could understand it and find it easily. And so I put it all the information back in my phone and it had me install apps that I uninstalled at a later time and then I remembered exactly what it was one by one. So I hope this helps everyone and thank you for reading my five season novel I just wrote and not just to help you but to open your mind on another way of understanding things sing you'll come up with your own ideas on how to do things how it taught me a lot of things I could do in my personal life and think different. Crazy right 😂
I hope microsoft will come up soon with the first stable version of Windows.
7 was pretty good but after that they been shitting stinky software’s like 8.1 and 10
Looks to me like you just deleted your backup.
My recovery disk says its almost full but when i opent it there's nothing inside... I don't understand
I think that's the windows backup folder, correct me if I'm wrong...but I have a different problem, I am not getting any solution anywhere, I have a partitioned drive, which is completely empty, but shows filled up, there's literally nothing in it.
Omg. thankyou so much! I've been searching for many years for how to solve this problem. luckily I found ur video!!
Tree Size saved the day for me. There was a log file from the Silhouette Cameo (vinyl cutter) that was over 1.3TB but was showing 0 in file explorer.
This never happened in Win7, cheers gov.
You're welcome
I can remember some months ago Geforce software filling my Win7-SSD to the max -scary shit...
thank you so much had this problem for days...Glad i found this vid
The problem with windows 10 is that you have no control over what is downloaded in stealth and keeps filling up your hard drive, where do you guys think all of those downloads go?
That's one of the reasons I do not use windows 10, it's by far the shittiest (excuse my language) operating system ever to be produced by MS even worse than windows 8 and 8.1
I am still using windows 7 for as long as it takes me, if I can no longer use it, then I will have to use other OS but not Microsoft.
Be deleting you are wiping out your backup files though?
I almost wiped my drive not knowing what the hell was goin' on but thanks for this helpful video,👍👍👍
Could it be File History?
I don't use file history
Literally built a new pc and almost all my storage is used up
I assume this works for SSD as well?
OMG U SAVE ME FROM BUYING NEW LAPTOP:D!!!, THANKYOUU
on my C drive is missing 36 gb after i deleted and uninstall CS 2 from steam, i dleted the steam folder and is still missing 36 gb from my hard disk C
My culprit was a Skyrim modlist lol, It was like 200gb!
i have the same situation but the question is how that program got there ?
i have the same problem bat on disc C and i don't know what file i need to delete , what should i do???
For anyone out there that just reset windows and has a drive showing a lot of file usage "had a 1tb SSD showing I only had 400gb to use" It was all tied to old files that were not even really there anymore, like my old steam library was 590gb of the usage. Never had old files stick around after reset, pretty sure they were gone but the hardrive had space allocated for what used to be on it
Cool. This clued me in to what appears to be a bug...
you know you can go in settings and it shows you which files have the most taken up storage, mine was because i had too many virtual machines.
My teenage daughter's Lenovo laptop is having the problem of 56GB almost full except for a few hundred MB, only because I deleted from cr@p. But I am now on a search for a similar file as 23GB is occupied by Origin's The Sims... Fingers crossed.
WOW I have never had this problem but it is nice to know if it does happen. Thanks for sharing and have a nice day !!
Why does it say zero?
last week my space was around 70gb left but then 30gb got taken away and idk what took it all
U saved me, idk even know y it should even say size on the right hand side, because it doesn't even tell you how big it is(at least for my PC anyway)
I have some folder with lots of papers named "Data" and they each take 1gb and i have 100gb of those should i delete it?
wow tons of gb suddenly appear?
Hi can i clean up my recovery D: drive? Im afraid.