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HDD suddenly full

Silotic
By Silotic
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4 minutes ago, Silotic said:

Hi,so I use an SSD and 2 HDD for my system and one of the HDD suddenly got fulled overnight despite the fact that it still had 30GB of free space on it.The only thing that I use it for are steam games so I don't see how this all happened.

 

Try running basic maintenance tasks on it such as defragmenting it and using CCleaner on it. 

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Following that windirstat is a great way to find where all that data went.

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1) From console (or "cmd") run as admin :
Type : "powercfg.exe /hibernate off" and press [Enter].
^only if you don't use hibernation mode.
2) Use build-in disk cleanup function and click on "clean up system files". Delete all things that use 100MB or more.
3) If you need more free space :
Disable page file on SSD/OS drive and enable it on any partition on HDD.

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