40gb Boot Drive Full

[Detective Space Wizard]

A few weeks ago I built my first computer and everything has been going perfectly fine outside of one issue. I'm using Windows 8 on a 40gb boot drive with a 500gb hard drive for storage, and the boot drive is completely full even though I have installed all the programs, games, etc., on the hard drive. I turned off hibernation mode which opened up about 9gb, with that free space only to be eaten up by something that I don't know of. My specs are (although I'm not sure how they would help here,) a pentium g3258 processor, a powercolor turboduo r9 270, 4 sticks of 2gb ram(total 8gb),600w corsair psu.

Thanks in advance.

[Guest]

Empty it

Download CCleaner

Buy bigger boot drive

[CoolaxGaming]

A few weeks ago I built my first computer and everything has been going perfectly fine outside of one issue. I'm using Windows 8 on a 40gb boot drive with a 500gb hard drive for storage, and the boot drive is completely full even though I have installed all the programs, games, etc., on the hard drive. I turned off hibernation mode which opened up about 9gb, with that free space only to be eaten up by something that I don't know of. My specs are (although I'm not sure how they would help here,) a pentium g3258 processor, a powercolor turboduo r9 270, 4 sticks of 2gb ram(total 8gb),600w corsair psu.

Thanks in advance.

Its full because of Windows being installed on it

[Mojo-Jojo]

A few weeks ago I built my first computer and everything has been going perfectly fine outside of one issue. I'm using Windows 8 on a 40gb boot drive with a 500gb hard drive for storage, and the boot drive is completely full even though I have installed all the programs, games, etc., on the hard drive. I turned off hibernation mode which opened up about 9gb, with that free space only to be eaten up by something that I don't know of. My specs are (although I'm not sure how they would help here,) a pentium g3258 processor, a powercolor turboduo r9 270, 4 sticks of 2gb ram(total 8gb),600w corsair psu.

Thanks in advance.

Windirstat

 

thank me later

[Hangfire]

windows updates, driver updates, temporary internet data, user data, app data etc, all builds up, 40gb is kinda small i think

[othertomperson]

And people still insist on 16-64GB SSDs having a place in today's society, in spite of their massively bad price to capacity ratio and near uselessness even as a boot drive.

[Hangfire]

i just built mine with a 120gb drive, already lower on space than i would like and i may go ahead and upgrade to a 250gb drive soon 

[Detective Space Wizard]

Ok, maybe I'll just get a 120gb ssd. Any recommendations?