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I'm going to highly recommend looking at drives with WizTree, which does a very fast display of what's taking up space based on parsing the MFT rather than scan
by fencepost 8y ago
I'm going to highly recommend looking at drives with WizTree, which does a very fast display of what's taking up space based on parsing the MFT rather than scanning the entire drive.
You may find that there's a massive amount of data where you wouldn't expect it, such as in the Windows Temp directory - if so and it's a bunch of files named "cab_something", you can kill all of those and prevent recurrence with a little housekeeping.
Details: https://www.computerworld.com/article/3112358/microsoft-windows/windows-7-log-file-compression-bug-can-fill-up-your-hard-drive.html https://www.computerworld.com/article/3112358/microsoft-wind... (update log files in windows\logs\cbs get auto-compressed, but compression breaks and leaves big temp files if the file to compress >2GB)