System Protection had been configured to use a lot of disk space to keep System Restore Points. System Restore is a Windows feature that can help fix certain types of system crashes and other computer problems. Click Start -> Power -> Restart to return to your normal Windows configuration. Run a full computer scan with your antivirus software. For Windows 8 and Windows 10 users, hold Shift key and press Restart button together, then go to Troubleshot -> Advanced options -> Startup settings -> Restart -> choose Enable Safe Mode or Enable Safe Mode with Networking.When the Advanced Boot Options menu appears, use the arrow keys to select Safe Mode or Safe Mode with Networking and press Enter. For Windows 7 users, tap the F8 key in 1 second intervals immediately after the computer is powered on.

Here we recommend you run computer in Safe Mode and check if it is virus free. Anyhow, it is no bad to do this operation.

It is uncertain that whether virus eats up disk space, but some users reported their computer went back to normal after running antivirus software.

Type ' Y' to agree to schedule for reboot, and then reboot your computer to let it scan while it reboots.Ĭheck if your C drive keeps filling up now.

Type ' chkdsk C: /f /v /x' and press Enter.

Run Command Prompt as Administrator, and then allow it to make changes to your PC.

In this case, you can do the followings steps to fix corrupted file system: When file system gets corrupted, it will report the free space incorrectly, which looks like something is taking up disk space. You might also be interested in: Hard Drive Space Is Missing? Take These Ways to Find It out 1. In this post, we list some suggestions to help you free up disk space. Is there any workaround I can have a try? Why does Windows keep on eating my hard drive space? If you are troubled by the same issue, you may wonder: This does affect their computer performance and prevent them from saving more files. But if they open C drive, select all files and folders by pressing Ctrl + A to view properties, it shows only part of the storage space is used. In addition, some users also added another strange thing in forums: if they right-click on the C drive and view its properties, it will show that the hard drive is almost full. Can't find mega-files (even in an in depth search), have already moved files off the drive and it keeps filling. Here is a true example we extract from : Q: 1TB Drive Keeps Filling Up - FASTįor the past few days, my 1TB hard drive has been filling up rapidly - taking up as much as 100GB in a few hours. Although they don't store any more files on the drive, and even if they delete some files, their C drive keeps filling up. While browsing Windows forums, we find many users report their hard drive space disappearing.

Local disk full but no files