Space slowly getting taken up

[SilverMight]

Right now my hard drives disk space is randomly getting taken up, very slowly. I looked at defraggler and just saw 1.2 GB left when I was 25 percent in a defrag. It's still, very slowly increasing in used space (defrag has been cancelled, of course.) I checked disk usage, and nothing seemed unusual. Running an MBAM scan right now.

 

OS is Windows 10 Home 64-bit.

System is ASUS GL552VW-DH71

CPU: Intel i7-6700HQ 

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce 960M

MOBO: GL552VW-DH71

BIOS Version: 218 (latest)

HHD: 1 TB (unsure about manufacturer)

RAM: 16GB DDR4

 

Thanks for any help.

[bgibbz]

Could be temp windows files. Maybe try running ccleaner. 

[zMeul]

run CCleaner: https://www.piriform.com/ccleaner/download

alrernatively, run WinDirStat to see what's what: https://windirstat.info/

[SilverMight]

Already have WinDirStat, deleting some things right now. Also forgot I had CCleaner

[RadiatingLight]

spacesniffer

[AlwaysFSX]

I prefer TreeSize Free to find out where space is going.

[mariushm]

In the defragmentation process, files are being copied to their new locations (and space is reserved for them) and only once the transfer is complete, the old location is freed up (the entries are removed from the ntfs and the sectors are marked as available for other files)

Hence, it's normal for some fluctuations in free disk space to occur while you're defragmenting.

 

Still, before doing any defragmenting, it wouldn't hurt to check the file system for errors by opening a command line in administrator mode (start run , type cmd , press ctrl+shift and click on cmd in the search results, or just right click and select run as administrator)  then typing CHKDSK drive_letter: /F    (remove /F for your Windows partition unless you want to schedule a scan at the next reboot, chkdsk can't fix errors while operating system runs and that's what /F does, it tells it to fix errors)

 

After that, just runs disk cleanup (start , run , disk cleanup and optionally run as administrator) and delete temporary files, backups made by windows update if you're scanning your windows partition and so on..

 

When you're done you can also use WinDirStat to investigate where most of your disk space is used, big temporary files or junk should pop up right away.

 

And you're done, you can defragment then... I suggest going with o&o defrag or some other more advanced defragmenting tool, instead of the one built inside windows.

 

[mariushm]

In the defragmentation process, files are being copied to their new locations (and space is reserved for them) and only once the transfer is complete, the old location is freed up (the entries are removed from the ntfs and the sectors are marked as available for other files)

Hence, it's normal for some fluctuations in free disk space to occur while you're defragmenting.

 

Still, before doing any defragmenting, it wouldn't hurt to check the file system for errors by opening a command line in administrator mode (start run , type cmd , press ctrl+shift and click on cmd in the search results, or just right click and select run as administrator)  then typing CHKDSK drive_letter: /F    (remove /F for your Windows partition unless you want to schedule a scan at the next reboot, chkdsk can't fix errors while operating system runs and that's what /F does, it tells it to fix errors)

 

After that, just runs disk cleanup (start , run , disk cleanup and optionally run as administrator) and delete temporary files, backups made by windows update if you're scanning your windows partition and so on..

 

When you're done you can also use WinDirStat to investigate where most of your disk space is used, big temporary files or junk should pop up right away.

 

And you're done, you can defragment then... I suggest going with o&o defrag or some other more advanced defragmenting tool, instead of the one built inside windows.

 

ps. note that most defragmenting tools run much much faster if there's some sensible amount of disk space free. For a 1TB drive, about 20-30 GB of free disk space would be perfect, any less and your defragmenting tools will not run optimally.