Hard Drive Full for No Reason Windows 10 

Speaking of Space, I have Avast free antivirus and every now and then a pop-up appears saying I have items slowing my computer down and yet there is barely a lot of GB in my C Drive

@@JadenYukifan28 avast is a scam

@@MercDaHaters I have Avast and I have no issues with it

@@JadenYukifan28 its wastes all of your disk space and slows your pc a crap ton

@@JadenYukifan28 it doesnt even let you delete it, if you do it secretly runs in the background at full disk space

same

@Deep Moticons We are hoarders

@Deep Moticons it’s precious memories, don’t go around the internet telling people what they should and shouldn’t do, that’s so fucking bizarre to think you have to right to do that. you’re very strange for NOT thinking old family photos are important. secondly, you don’t know their life. they could’ve had the worlds greatest parents and they died and all they have to remember them is photos. you never know someone story so don’t be so quick to hop onto their case on why they think photos are so important.

@Deep Moticons what a sad fucking life eh?

@Deep Moticons damn yea you for sure got no family

Yes, let's praise him who hath said "deleteit" even though he doesn't know what it is.

Thank u so much this was alot of help

Does this affect any thing in the computer if deleted

Can i delete the "recovery (D:) drive? Or do a "disk cleanup"?

I have the same problem but can't find the file that he sees. Is there another name for these backups?

i do not have W7

so how do we stop it from recreating the folder again?

@@floridagirl386 I recommend you to do the D: disk disk cleanup

Its a virus. When you scan with an antivirus it wants you to pay an extra fee. Well I can't prove it. But that's my conclusion based on where the bread crumbs lead. The company is hitting you up for protection fees.

@@noahriding5780 no it's not, it's the backup image folder, it's so big that it shows up at 0 bytes

@@andreu16 i cant find that on the c drive.

No, I never used windows backup, also why was the icon desktop and showing as empty and 0 files? also zipped files named as backup, very strange.

@@Britec09 Hi Brian, all of the Windows image files I create look exactly the same - 0 bytes - but they restore fine. Seems to be a bug with Windows miscalculating it's image file sizes.

@@JasonBassettThurrock Yea Windows is lazy and terrible nowadays

@@Datenkabel Exactly - that's why I have not used Windows for about 15 years, except under duress. I'm quite happy with any Linux distribution.

@@JasonBassettThurrock can you plzz help ? my c drive is full for no reason !! plz plz plz help meeee

Thanks

me too thanks for sharing already supscribed

i found out that, its made by microsoft and microsoft doesnt want you to know that there are some files that are mostly "not important". So they made it private as putting 0bites as a file.

If you hit properties of the file you can see how much storage it’s taking

@@mrsnake1278 and then i almost jumped out of my gaming chair when i saw that one file was 256gb

You're welcome.

i edited about 40 pictures on my computer. Lightroom. C: drive was at 60 gigs free. I export to another drive. and i delete all photos from lightroom. and all the sudden i have less than 20mb left on my c: drive. I have no clue what to do. i cant find any weird files or anything. Please help!

How you solved the problem

@@nandhakumars7800i always see the questions but i never see a simple “yes” or “no”🤦🏾

Same bro help plsss

I have this exact problem too, no one understands my pain especially this is my new pc😢😢

Figure out the cause?

I'm surprised tech savy britec missed that. Thanks for explaining what the video didn't.

very strange, because I never use windows backup, I use Acronis true image which is installed on the system, its a strange one.

@@Britec09 I've just looked at my own backup file on my NAS. That's definitely a Windows Backup file structure you've got there. At 3:40 when you opened the image and saw the folders "Backup Set {Date} XXXXXX", with the obvious exception of the date stamp, my backup structure is the same as yours. Also in the same root folder with the image exists, you'll also see a 1KB file named "MediaID.bin" which is the reference file Windows uses to look at backups, that way Windows doesn't hammer your storage solution scanning all files unless you open them. It's a very weird glitch when the Properties windows shows 0 bytes used, as mine sits at 18.9GB so I can't explain that. But if I were you, check your backup settings from within the classic Control Panel (using the Settings app will eventually open the Backup and Restore (Windows 7) CPL anyway) and disable it since you use Acronis.

I have never used windows backup, so I am very surprised how all of a sudden I have backups

@@Britec09 You, or I, may not have used Windows Backup, but Windows surely did. This would be fine for inexperienced people, but for people like me that manually back up data, I don't need this auto-bloat. I've been struggling with this for months. I have a game drive that I deleted 80% of the games because of the "mystery back up" filling up external Hard Drives. I'm elated and furious at the same time. Just recovered 400 gigs of space. The progress I made in those games is gone. One of the reasons I love Linux, nothing requires terabytes of space to operate, even 1:1 backups of the entire operating systems.

what is acronis? or resilio?

@@chocoteddyyy different file transfer or backup programs.

@@finitesound thanks!

yeah, but how? I have never used it.

@@Britec09 That's a good question. I've had odd behavior from it before. I used to use it back when I had Windows 7. I then started using a 3rd party program to make backups. I deleted all backups made with the Windows backup program (which is the same Windows 10 still uses), and even though it showed as completely gone (there were no files remaining om the partition), the drive was nearly full, as it was before removing them. I ended up having to format the partition to regain the disk space. I'll never use Windows utility to backup ever again.

Where is the backup file?

Yeah that is a different thing.

That's why you do a clean install of Windows 10.

Update files from patches might be clogging up my C drive to the red.

7 was pretty good but after that they been shitting stinky software’s like 8.1 and 10

did you find it?

same problem

@@awnialholi72 My issue was a file in my Mcafee folder, called them and they fixed it with in mins. Good Luck!

@@asaroufeem how were you able to find out what file was the problem? (Sorry for asking almost a year later.)

You should always be careful on what you delete off your hard drive that goes without saying

@@Britec09 what annoys me the most is it keeps trying to add more programs without my permission. So then I have to keep scanning it with sfc /scannow chkdsk C: /f to stop the crap that keeps feeling it up. It could even be bitlocker🔓 doing it again. Sometimes I think windows 10 is a bit of a pain in the ass, I'm sorry to say. I think I'm starting to get really sick of windows 10. I think I'm gonna have to change over to Linux Min🖥️t📗, 🐧 I hope Linux Mint isn't as disappointing as windows 10. I wonder if Linux Mint is the same situation as C drive cos windows 10 is nothing like windows XP :service pack 3: 2002, or windows 7.

how would i remove it all

@@Tollie314 just delete the file