Windows 7 HD suddenly full?

[gng75]

Hi,

I have recently used Boot Camp to install Windows 7 on an old MacBook (mid-2010) - I set it up to have a 115 Gb partition for Mac OS (10.10.1) and a 115 Gb partition for Windows 7 (64 bit).

The installation process went beautifully, and everything worked as it is supposed to have. Next, I installed Steam on my Windows 7 drive, and a bunch of games via Steam (all combat flight sims - which was my reason for doing the Boot Camp thing in the first place).

Again, all fine - the games work perfectly, including with peripherals such as an Xbox 360 (wired) controller and a Logitech Extreme 3D Pro joystick.


I went away for a week, and didn't have access to the internet during the holiday, and thus played my games in Steam's offline mode. No problems there.

HOWEVER - when I got home yesterday, I noticed, while idly looking at the Windows system, that my Windows disk is suddenly full - about 1 gig free. I don't understand what's happened here, particularly as I did nothing except play games on it.

The only thing that I did that was a new thing was to go into the Boot Camp manager and check the boxes in the trackpad/keyboard control panel to work like they do in my Mac system - tap to click, secondary click, etc.

Can anyone help me here? Why is my Windows partition suddenly full?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks

 

[maflynn]

Download The sysinternals suite of tools. You'll want du.exe specifically. If you google that, you can download just that app.

From a cmd window run du -l 1 c:\
If wish to pipe it to a text file, then something along the lines of du -l 1 c:\ > du.txt

The Du utility will scan through your drive and give you the utilization by directory. The number of -l (which is the letter L) tells DU to see how deep in the directory tree to display.

I usually start off at du -l 2 c:\Users\[my account]

This handy little utility will show you where your space went

 

[gng75]

Thanks Mike.

The problem sorted itself out! The next time I looked, the drive was showing what it should have - i.e. that there's 40 gig free.

No idea what happened there.

Thanks again.