Windows 10: External harddrive suddenly lost my steam library, but it's still taking up space (900 gigs...

I've shown hidden files and folders, done disk cleanup, error checking, redone my search index, etc. Nothing works. 900 gigs of steam games and saves just suddenly gone, but still taking up space on the drive. Any recommendations before I give up and format it?

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Lost 15 gig disk space after using system restore

Thanks for the suggestions. Well I have given the machine loads of idle time. Then I ran disk clean up. Finally I started the maintenance manually and let that complete. I only got back a couple of gigs. I think doing the system restore has swallowed the data somewhere (and now it’s probably orphaned). Thing is it only reports a usage of a few hundred megabytes when I look at its configure option. Many months ago I used it for some other problem and while it fixed it I think I lost a few gigs as a result and now yesterdays shenanigans shaved off a few more.

I looked at wiztree but when I went to download it reported an unsafe download and blocked it. So I’ll give that a swerve. The pastebin link looks interesting but I don’t really know what I’m looking at or what I’m supposed to do.

I was looking at the folders and apps list and trying to roughly tot up what’s been used in reality compared to what windows reports. Seems I’ve used about 35-40 gigs whilst windows says I’ve used 56. So 15-20 gigs are lost / unaccountable

i have got fast start switched on but I’m not sure if that is taking any space up as I cannot find/see hiberfil.sys on the c: drive even when ensuring the option to view hidden files is checked and as I only have 8 gigs ram I guess that would only of accounted for 5-6 gigs anyway

thanks, Wayne

 

Steam Library Manager (Free/Open-Source/C#/v1.4.4)

Steam Library Manager (SLM) is a tool to manage your Steam Libraries quick and easy. With SLM you can administrate all of your games and backups from one place. Drag and drop between libraries and backup folders with ease. Works with existing Steam Backups or opt to use SLM's open system for fast updates and quick access to game files.

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Links:
Latest Release (v1.4.4)
GitHub Page (Sources)
Steam Group

All suggestions are welcome and will help further development of SLM.

 

external harddrive issue

i just got a used external hard drive using the firewire port its a maxtor 40 gig yet after deleting everything on it it says i only have 15 gigs of free space is there anyway to free up more space or to reformat this drive to make more space any help can be useful