Why does my C Drive randomly full?

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Gebsy Apr 27 @ 7:28am

Sometimes my C drive just randomly full and only has several hundred Mb free space. But after i restart my laptop it back to normal. What causing this?

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✨Saint✨ Apr 27 @ 7:44am

You need around 20% of free space on your C drive to work properly. Ones your drive is completely full, you are running the risk for your HDD to stop completely.

Solution: Make some free space.

Last edited by ✨Saint✨; Apr 27 @ 7:44am

Gebsy Apr 27 @ 8:09am

Originally posted by ✨Saint✨:
You need around 20% of free space on your C drive to work properly. Ones your drive is completely full, you are running the risk for your HDD to stop completely.

Solution: Make some free space.

:saint:

It has free space. It has 10GB+ space to be exact. It just randomly full and has several hundred Mb left. Idk what causing this. I just restart my Laptop and now it back to 10GB+.

✨Saint✨ Apr 27 @ 8:14am

Originally posted by Gebsy:
Originally posted by ✨Saint✨:
You need around 20% of free space on your C drive to work properly. Ones your drive is completely full, you are running the risk for your HDD to stop completely.

Solution: Make some free space.

It has free space. It has 10GB+ space to be exact. It just randomly full and has several hundred Mb left. Idk what causing this. I just restart my Laptop and now it back to 10GB+.

Check your drive for errors, there could be some bad sectors.

Right-click the drive to perform a check disk, then select Properties. Click the Tools tab in the Properties window. Click Check under error checking. To perform a complete check of the hard drive for errors, check off both options in the open check disk window.

Or use the chkdsk command prompt (with adm. right).

まりさ Apr 27 @ 8:15am

Might be pagefile and hibernate files causing that.

Iceira Apr 27 @ 8:28am

We dont know where you got your IT information from OP, most i know will never go that low.
and i bet MS recovery kick in from time to time, why system even still work is thanks to MS not you.

Last edited by Iceira; Apr 27 @ 8:29am

rawWwRrr Apr 27 @ 8:56am

Originally posted by Gebsy:
Originally posted by ✨Saint✨:
You need around 20% of free space on your C drive to work properly. Ones your drive is completely full, you are running the risk for your HDD to stop completely.

Solution: Make some free space.

:saint:
It has free space. It has 10GB+ space to be exact. It just randomly full and has several hundred Mb left. Idk what causing this. I just restart my Laptop and now it back to 10GB+.

Get a space analyzing tool like SpaceSniffer.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/spacesniffer/
You can have it analyze the disk to see how much space everything is using. It will update its display in real time as files/folders are updated. Maybe it'll help clue you in an on what is constantly increasing.

Azure Fang Apr 27 @ 11:30am

Originally posted by rawWwRrr:
Originally posted by Gebsy:
It has free space. It has 10GB+ space to be exact. It just randomly full and has several hundred Mb left. Idk what causing this. I just restart my Laptop and now it back to 10GB+.
Get a space analyzing tool like SpaceSniffer.
https://sourceforge.net/projects/spacesniffer/
You can have it analyze the disk to see how much space everything is using. It will update its display in real time as files/folders are updated. Maybe it'll help clue you in an on what is constantly increasing.

I always preferred WinDirStat: https://windirstat.net/
Little sluggish, but looks and feels a lot better than SpaceSniffer.