Windows 10: Hard drive space being taken up

Hello Microsoft forums! So I have a problem on my computer with my hard drive, so, my hard drive is 111gb, i know its not alot but my computer broke and i had to get a new hard rive and this was the cheapest offer, but i was recently trying to download unreal engine to make a game and test it out, but it said please free up 40 gb of space and i looked at my hard drive and it said that it had 8 gb available, The only things i used were adobe after affects, primer pro and audition and epic games launcher to download un real engine but nothing else.

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Hard Drive Space Completely Dissappeared


I would suggest if possible open Explorer and have a look at contents of the drive to determine what has taken up all the space. Hard to imagine you accumulated over 400GB of temp Photoshop files although I suppose you could have.

 

Hard Drive Space Missing

Hi,

It is possible that hard drive space was missing due to a corrupted file system. To better assist you, kindly answer the following questions:

• Have you made any recent changes prior to this issue?
• Have you tried deleting temporary files?
• What troubleshooting steps have you done so far aside from checked the hidden files?

We're looking forward to your response.

 

Windows is taking up too much hard drive space.

Hi Trisha,

Windows might have been accumulated large drive space due to installed apps, temporary files, or etc. For us to identify which item mostly accumulates your drive space, we suggest that you check it here:

• Click on Start.
• Type Storage, and then press Enter.
• Under Local Storage, click on This
  PC (C.
• On this window, you will see which item mot accumulate your drive space.

We also recommend that you follow the steps given on this article on how to
free up drive space in Windows 10. Click on every drop down to view the steps.

Let us know if you need further assistance.