HDD space almost used up for no reason

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Larry_77

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I tried to install a game the other day and to my surprise I had no space available on a 1TB HDD. I only have 10 games so far and hardly any other programs on my PC. But for some reason Ive used 900gb out of 930gb total. ive gotten it down to 708gb as of now but I have no idea what is taking up so much space. looking through my program files (including hidden) Im only using 153gb. Ive tried disk cleanup for C:, setting the slider back on system protection, Cleaning up system restore and shadow copies. Nothing has seemed to work. Im just at a loss as to what is using the space. Im almost ready to just do a reformat. And every once in a while my pc will even give me a blue screen giving me a memory error as well.

If anyone has ideas please help :(
 
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For instance, you have 32GB of .mkv movies, 47GB of PAZ files (no idea what that is...a game?), 32GB of stuff from TOR, 13GB of WinRAR zip files, 50GB of CAS (dunno what that is).
That's 200GB right there...

You've simply been collecting too much gunk.
If you click on one of the spaces in the bottom section, at the very bottom left it will tell you what file and where it is.

Time to start pruning.
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Check for viruses and malware. The virus scan should be a boot time scan. If you dont have ani-virus get avast from the link. Use malewarebytes to scan for maleware.
http://download.cnet.com/windows/

Lastly use Run the Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool. Start - type in Search box -> MRT find at top of list - Right Click on it - RUN AS ADMIN. You should be getting this tool and its updates via Windows Updates - if needed you can download it here. Download - SAVE - go to where you put it - Right Click on it - RUN AS ADMIN
(Then run MRT as above.)

Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/malicious-software-removal-tool-details.aspx?id=16
 
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Larry_77

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Forgot to mention, Im running Windows 10.

But I tried MRT and it didn't find anything. I also tried WinDirStat and it shows where a lot of my space is going. I just don't really know where to find this stuff or what I'm even looking at. I will post a pic of it here.

https://imgur.com/a/ihpUS
 
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For instance, you have 32GB of .mkv movies, 47GB of PAZ files (no idea what that is...a game?), 32GB of stuff from TOR, 13GB of WinRAR zip files, 50GB of CAS (dunno what that is).
That's 200GB right there...

You've simply been collecting too much gunk.
If you click on one of the spaces in the bottom section, at the very bottom left it will tell you what file and where it is.

Time to start pruning.
 
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Larry_77

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Thanks a bunch, I dunno why but I thought I already deleted most of this stuff. The PAZ file is Black Desert Online, most of them are actually just games I thought I uninstalled a long time ago.... Time to free up some space :)


Edit: Oh its all under hidden files $SysReset\OldOS!
 
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