Windows 10: Hard Drive fills up after format

Before I start, I must say that I am completely new to these forums. I literally just made an account so I could get some help with this problem. I apologise beforehand if my formatting or general mannerisms are not right.

There's a TL;DR at the bottom for those who don't want to hear the entire backstory to this issue.

Anyways, as the title says, I'm having a rather weird issue with one of my drives, namely, my D drive on my laptop (the one that doesn't have the boot on it, I presume). You see, recently I noticed my laptop was getting rather full, so I figured I'd try and clean up a bit. I have two SSDs, both about 500 GB. Originally, one was some sort of RAID for the other? But something went horribly wrong during a stay in America. The entire laptop was completely unresponsive. Luckily, the guy I was staying with knew a guy who knew quite a bit about computers. So, he was able to get her running quite well again. Apparently, something went wrong with the RAID or something? I dunno, the guy either didn't explain it very well or I didn't understand.

Well, the laptop works again, but as far as I can tell, the D drive is still nigh unusable. I tried installing Steam to it so I could use that as my gaming drive, but Steam simply refuses to run. If Steam's installed on the C drive, it runs fine. There's still some files on the D drive which I can read just fine, but programs seem to be an issue.

So then whenever I try to format my second drive, it seems to simply reset to a previous state. In this state, it has about 68 GB of space left. So when I manually go in and delete things, like my Steam folder (which is usually rather big) and then go and format the drive, it goes from having 278 GB free to 68 GB free! Even though I formatted it!

TL;DR
Formatting my D drive just resets it to a previous (usually more filled) state, from what I can gather.

Thanks ahead for any help with this issue and for your time reading this thread!

- Denzel

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How To Format A Write Protected Flash Memory ?

¿You already tried this one?...

Run CMD


1. diskpart
2. list disk

Then in the 3º step, put the correct number of disk in the list for the usb flash (if it's listed in disk 3, then you'll have to write select disk 3).

2. select disk #
3. clean
4. create partition primary
5. select partition 1
6. active
7. format fs=fat32
8. assign
9. exit

with that commands you will format the flash drive in fat32, if you have a large drive you can select also "format fs=ntfs" in step 7.

good luck!

 

want to Format a La Cie External Drive Because the Software Genie 9 has too many versions of backup.

Hello,

To format an external USB or an external hard drive you can easily do it by accessing Computer Management. For us to assist you, we suggest that you follow the steps listed below:

• Press the Start button.
• Type Computer Management.
• On the left side, click on Disk Management under Storage.
• Locate the drive that you want to format.
• Once located, right-click on the drive and choose Format.

If the hard drive has not been formatted with the steps that we have provided above, we recommend that you contact the manufacturer of your hard drive. Some hard drive requires a software that you'll need to use just to format it.

Let us know how it goes and if you need further assistance, feel free to post back.

 

Formatting a dual boot system with windows 10 and ubuntu

Hi,

In Windows 10, you can easily format a hard drive or a partition by accessing Computer Management. For us to assist you, we suggest that you follow the steps listed below:

• Press the Start button.
• Type Computer Management.
• On the left side, click on Disk Management under Storage.
• Locate the drive that you want to format.
• Once located, right-click on the drive and choose Format.

If the hard drive has not been formatted with the steps that we have provided above, we recommend that you contact the manufacturer of your hard drive. Some hard drive requires a software that you'll need to use just to format it.

Let us know how it goes and if you need further assistance, feel free to post back.