I keep losing hard drive space

Now I know what you people are going to say on how I should uninstall stuff on Steam, but I have done that time and time again, I've restored over 30GB and again, I lose it even though I dont install anything big.

Ztruker said:

276GB for Steam, sounds like that is where the space is going? Must be one or more of the Steam games that is eating up the space.

The thing is though, I don't install anything at all that would eat up 30GB+ now there may be some big 200mb updates or something like that but huge updates dont happen THAT often...

Ztruker said:

276GB for Steam, sounds like that is where the space is going? Must be one or more of the Steam games that is eating up the space.

Sounds like a very reasonable explanation, as well as logical.

Britton30 said:

How many games in Steam are updating?
You may have some other things updating a lot too, but you've not followed the request to post a screen shot of windirstat.

I believe post #11 has a Windirstat image. I don't use that particular program and prefer Folder Size so I am not sure which program he used. However, he didn't post an expanded File Folder Directory.

The folders aren't exactly huge below it but ok, here you go.



So look, it cant be Steam taking it up completely because its not like it has 30GB updates on games, it has to be windows doing something.

Now that we know the Steam folder is what is using the space we need to see what is using so much space in the Steam folder.

Click the little "+" sign to the left of the Steam folder to expand the folder.
Post back a screen print with that expanded.

Right now we're trying to drill-down to find what is using so much space in the Steam folder...

if you see one folder in there using most of the space, click that "+" to expand...and post the image.

I think you're just trying to store more data than your HD is capable of.
That means you need to get a bigger HD or another HD for Steam Games.
You could remove 3 games and recover over 50GB of space for a quick fix.

Looking back to post #5 it shows two 465 GB HD's.
D is labeled "Games and Tools".
C is labeled "Hard Drive C".

Where are you installing Steam Games to, "C:" or "D:" ?

How many HD's and what size do you have in this PC?
Can you post a maximized screen print of Disk Management?