Windows 10: Left my laptop off for a week and now C: Drive free size is around half of what it was

I have an HP 255 G7 Laptop. I was away from home and left it powered off for a week. When I got back, I noticed it was a bit slower and when I checked the C: Drive, I saw that it has only around 35 GB left when before I was away it had around 67 GB left. I restarted it and it grew by 4 GB to 39 GB. I am confused and want to know what this is. I have Windows 10.

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Extend C drive Size

Your Image does not show a D partition. It does show an F partition which if reduced in size would enable you to increase the size of the C partition.



These are the steps needed to enable you to increase the size of your C partition:

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  Reduce F by 20 gb placing the unallocated space before F.
  
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  Increase the Recovery partition by 20 gb taking up unallocated space created by Step 1.
  
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  Reduce the Recovery partition by 20 gb placing the unallocated space before the Recovery partition.
  
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  Increase the C partition by 20 gb to take in the unallocated space before the Recovery partition.
  

You can use Easeus Partition Manager (freeware) to carry out these tasks. The files in each partition are automatically moved when you carry out each step detailed above.

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What's eating up my \C: drive?

That reduced System Volume Information to 662 KB, left $GetCurrent at 3.8 GB which is called media when clicking the little arrow. Storage sense or Disk cleanup gave no reference to $GetCurrent, and the [2 files] are pagefile.sys and swapfile.sys.

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I will thank everyone and mark this thread as solved, I now have over 27 GB of free space on my C: drive, it must just slowly get down to size where Windows warned me with a red "flag" when viewing This PC.

 

C: drive

Hi Viva,

If you recently made some changes on your machine and needs to access
C: drive, you can do it by following the steps below:

• Press Windows key + E.
• On the left pane, click This PC. It will show you list of different folders. For
  C: drive, it may look like this.

If you have further queries, feel free to reply to this post.