My Hard Drive (C) space just got eaten by my backup files

Brianlee2798

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Just about a week ago, I installed windows 10 (wasnt really happy with it). I backed up my files just incase I wanted to go back to windows 8.1 or lose anything during the update. I left files history/ back up files on for the rest of the duration by mistake and now I have no hard drive space whats so ever. I went from having 300gb of free space to 8.7 gb (750gb hardrive) in about a week. How do I fix this?

Intel i7 3632QM
Nvidia GTX 640
Windows 8.1
 

puttynene

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There are a number of Windows files that will fill up a lot of space, and they can be done away with. Turn off system restore and delete the old restore files. Disable hibernation, which creates a large file