Windows 10: My W: drive says its full but files available take up so little

For back ground, my pc is a little under I think 10 years old so it may just be faulty hardware. My w drive my 1.8 tb hard drive says its at near max capacity when ever I look at the properties. However, if I select every file in the drive and look at the properties, it says they take up 9 gb total, most of that 9 being fallout 3 with miscellaneous files. I've done disk clean ups and looked for hidden files. Neither have worked. I haven't tried any apps to clean it because I can't find one that one, newer, and two I can trust. I plan to have a look at the physical thing when I put my new gpu

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how to copy files from the CD to the Computer drive

Hi Hankriegler,

I would suggest you to follow the steps below:

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  Press Windows key + X.
  
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  Click file explorer from the list.
  
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  Select the CD/DVD drive and hit Enter.
  
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  Select the files you want to copy from the CD/DVD, then select the drive where you want to paste or save.
  

I hope the information is helpful.

Thank you.

 

Need solution for automating transferring of files to flash drives

I am wary of jumping straight in at the deep end so I have a couple of questions.

1 How do you know which files to copy to which memory stick? Can you put a list for each one in a text file?
2 Are you free to give each memory stick a specific label so that it can be detected in order to trigger the specific list that you have written for that memory stick?

I do have a batch file procedure for identifying the drive letter currently being used for a given external drive label. So perhaps you could trigger a common batch file that
Step 1 - checks each drive in turn to read its label and then find its current drive letter
Step 2 - for each detected drive, look up the list given in the batch file to identify which [if any] text file to look in to find the files to copy to that memory stick.
Step 3 - copies the files listed in the relevant text file

Denis

 

Stored files in Hard Drive

You can use Windows search. Just search for *.* on a desired drive. When list is done just arrange them by size LOL.

You can do it via command line as well and make an output text file showing files and their sizes (but without arrangement)