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Mark_Konschak
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Nov 05, 2020

C drive in windows 10 shows full!

I have cleaned the hard drive, Temp files and hidden files, turned off the protection and I still show the hard drive is full.  Does anyone have any other suggestions short of wiping and reimaging.

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    Hi Mark_Konschak,

     

    You can find folders which use many disk spaces on drive via powershell.

     

    For example:

     

    $targetfolder='C:\'
    $dataColl = @()
    gci -force $targetfolder -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | ? { $_ -is [io.directoryinfo] } | % {
    $len = 0
    gci -recurse -force $_.fullname -ErrorAction SilentlyContinue | % { $len += $_.length }
    $foldername = $_.fullname
    $foldersize= '{0:N2}' -f ($len / 1Gb)
    $dataObject = New-Object PSObject
    Add-Member -inputObject $dataObject -memberType NoteProperty -name “foldername” -value $foldername
    Add-Member -inputObject $dataObject -memberType NoteProperty -name “foldersizeGb” -value $foldersize
    $dataColl += $dataObject
    }
    $dataColl | Out-GridView -Title “Size of subdirectories”

     

    Reference : http://woshub.com/powershell-get-folder-sizes/

     

  • Hello Mark_Konschak,

     

    If you recently or earlier upgraded to newer version from older version of Windows 10, you might want to remove files in Windows.old folder to gain more space on drive.

     

    Regards.