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Guys i need a bit off help here my c: drive recently filled up one day out of the blue about 60 GBs of data somewhere and i can't find it (its missing) i added up the the amount of data it would tell me on each folder and it equates to the drive to have a missing 60 GBs or so.

   

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Download a utliity like treesize free, it'll tell you which folder contains all that space. Also run a disk cleanup once in a while to get rid of caches and other junk.

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2 minutes ago, Mr7ellow said:

Guys i need a bit off help here my c: drive recently filled up one day out of the blue about 60 GBs of data somewhere and i can't find it (its missing) i added up the the amount of data it would tell me on each folder and it equates to the drive to have a missing 60 GBs or so.

   

Do you have hidden files turned on? If not, the files could be hiding.

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4 minutes ago, Mr7ellow said:

Guys i need a bit off help here my c: drive recently filled up one day out of the blue about 60 GBs of data somewhere and i can't find it (its missing) i added up the the amount of data it would tell me on each folder and it equates to the drive to have a missing 60 GBs or so.

   

Open Explorer, right-click on your C:-drive, select Properties. Click on Disk Cleanup, then "Cleanup system files" -- you'll probably see previous Windows-versions and/or updates taking up a lot of space on the list that shows up, you can safely clean those out.

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new to this, am i supposed to close the thread?

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13 minutes ago, Mr7ellow said:

Guys i need a bit off help here my c: drive recently filled up one day out of the blue about 60 GBs of data somewhere and i can't find it (its missing) i added up the the amount of data it would tell me on each folder and it equates to the drive to have a missing 60 GBs or so.

   

I'd suggest to run a program like WinDirStat to see which files / folders are taking up the most space in your drive

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yh i used treesize free and it shown a some hidden files and i deleted them.

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Use WinDirStat and sort based on file size.

Also if you have a system restore point, you can actually try deleting them (not frequently though). You might be surprised how big it can be.

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