Windows 10: Why is there so much storage being used on my hard drive?

I'm not sure if this had anything to do with it but my hard drive has crashed before and deleted all my games everything, this was also after i tried moving windows from my hdd to my ssd, and when it crashed, it started using windows on my hardrive. What would be in my program files to be using so much storage. I also only have 5 games downloaded on steam which shouldn't be more that 100 GB.

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Hard Drive Storage

I have a 500Gb Hard Drive, running Windows 10 Pro version 1909. My c drive is nearly full, I have checked every area on the pc and nothing adds up to the 486Gb I'm supposed to have available. I have gone to Settings > System > Storage - it shows that 401Gb
is being taken up by Apps and features but when I click on this and show the list of installed apps with their sizes, I have added up the entire list and it comes to 25Gb total. It doesn't show what's eating up the rest of the 400Gb of space. I have deleted
everything I can and have only been able to free up 11Gb so far so my c drive is still showing red. At this point is the only other step to reload the pc, or does anyone have any suggestions as to what it might be and how to fix?

Thanks,

Heather

 

Best 2.5-inch hard drive for storage and gaming?

1TB 5,400 RPM:

• Seagate 1TB BarraCuda $54.78
• Seagate 1TB Firecuda Gaming $65.50
• WD Blue 1TB $56.89

1TB 7,200 RPM:

• WD Black 1TB $73.95
• HGST Travelstar 7K1000 1TB $59.93

Which one is the best 2.5-inch hard drive for storage and gaming?.

The hard drive is for the Fractal Design Node 202 Mini ITX case.

 

hard drive full, but can<t find the item to erase

Windows 10 has the option to change the storage location. We suggest that you change the storage location so you can still use your hard drive instead of using the SSD. Kindly follow the steps below on how to change the storage location:

• On the Search bar, type in storage and select the top most result.
• On the Storage screen, change the location of each options to your desired hard drive. The files will now be saved on the specific hard drive.
  

Let us know if you need further assistance.