Internal Drive

Thank you in advance. One of my internal drives is saying it is nearly empty, when it should have more on it. Any ideas to troubleshoot?

 

We need some clarification. When you say "empty" do you mean nothing is saved on it, or do you mean that it is full and you have no free space left?

Have you run Windows Disk Cleanup or CCleaner on it?

Is this your boot drive?

 

Post a screenshot similar to this

 

my WD: x drive. It's a spare drive for storage. Haven't ran ccleaner yet.

 

Sorry, but the images are too small and blurry for me to make out. But from what I do see, I don't see anything wrong.

I recommend you run Error Checking on it, or open up an elevated command prompt (run as administrator) and run chkdsk /r on the drive. You may be prompted to let it run at next reboot, that's okay. And it may take many hours to complete and appear to be frozen. Just let it run until finished. I often just let it run overnight.

 

Did the error check and it was fine

 

The SSD drive is getting too full but your data drive has huge free space. You should move some non-system data from the SSD to the the data drive.

 

Any other ideas to what happened to the x drive files?

 

Use a program like Tree Size free to view that data drive:
http://www.majorgeeks.com/files/details/treesize_free.html

 

Sorry, but likely user error!

How much was there?

Have you tried a recovery program like Recuva?

 

Tried both and nothing found, only 2 word documents. I think the drive was 70-80 full. Performing the deep scan with recuva. Seems to be finding more files...will update when it's done. Cheers

 

Finished the scan and nothing recovered. Strange. Oh well, I think I had everything backed up on a different drive, hopefully.

 

Well, you certainly need to make sure you make a backup of everything you have now.

 

LOL yes for sure. Thanks again for your help

 

I'm in this situation now. Can someone tell me how to go about this? I'm running win7 Home 64 and my ssd drive is a 150Gb with only 1.57 Gb free, whereas my 500Gb data drive has 350+Gb free.