It doesn't make sense if the unused space of your hard drive partition gets lost at the speed of several gigabytes in a day. You must take the time to find out the actual reasons and apply the correct solutions.
The rapid loss of hard drive free space on some days is like an accident, and we can determine the causes in much easier ways. But make sure that you follow the given solutions very carefully, they are prone to bring damage to your drive itself.
Did you install suspicious programs from unknown websites or open an unknown attachment file in an email in recent days? If yes, be alert. It's pretty sure that it's the virus that eats up your hard drive space! Step 1. You can run the anti-virus software on your computer to scan and remove the virus for the first attempt. Step 2. If virus removal software doesn't work, try to use cmd to remove the virus from the hard drive. Step 3. What's the last yet the most powerful way to remove a virus?
Fully format the hard drive or do a system restore. Let's check if the System Restore is turned on, for example, in Windows Click the System protection to open "System Properties", where you could see the "Protection Settings". Usually, the Protection is set to 'On' for the System drive. Please let us know what is happening now and what else you tried so we can assist you further if you need it. Add a comment. Active Oldest Votes.
Please report everything you find out in a comment below so I can further assist you! Improve this answer. Anyways - get your up-vote from me. Good input! Every time you browse the web you are dowloading contents: HTML text , images, video… Every time MacOS check for new updates, it is also downloading contents: content description, anticipated software updates… Here are a few recommandations for this kind of hidden disk scrounger: Install and run Malwarebytes.
Sure, that can happen. But 10 GB of that within 2 weeks? Plus I only browse the web in incognito, shouldn't that mitigate the amount also. Are you suggesting df -h? Because it fluctuates sometimes too. Alex Alex 1. The Overflow Blog. Who owns this outage? Building intelligent escalation chains for modern SRE. This reinstalls Windows while keeping files, programs and most settings in place, and is also the most stable method to advance to the latest version.
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Thoroughly research any product advertised on the sites before you decide to download and install it. How satisfied are you with this reply? Note that only basic disk is available and all its content will be cleaned. Hence, if the disk you want to select is dynamic disk, convert dynamic to basic ; if it saves important data, transfer data to another location or you can select another one. Then continue. You can also change the copy options according to your own preference.
Be aware that "Copy partitions without resize" is not available if the target disk is smaller than the source drive, and "Use GUID Partition Table for the target disk" is not availble in this free partition magic.
Click Next to go on. MiniTool Partition Wizard will tell you how to boot from the target disk. Please keep this in mind in case you may use this drive to boot your PC. Now click Finish to go back to the main interface. Step 5. Finally, hit the Apply button to start the backup process.
A rebooting is required because the operating system is involved. Now you have finished hard drive backup, it is time to disable the Hibernation Mode. Well, how to disable Hibernation Mode? Just follow these steps which are really easy for you. I searched the net and followed this guide to disable Hibernation Mode. Now my hard drive goes normal.
Would like to share it with you. Hidden files are likely to cause hard drive space disappearing without any attention.
In case you have set to hide some special files, you need to make them reveal on your PC. Please do the followings:. Then switch to View and do the followings: under " Hidden files and folders ", select " Show hidden files, folders and drives " and uncheck all the hide options. When you uncheck the option " Hide protected operating system files Recommended ", you will receive a warning message which reads "these files are required to start and run Windows, deleting or editing them can make your computer inoperable".
Please don't mind and click Yes to confirm your operation. Finally, press OK on the Folder Options window to save your change.
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