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OS: Windows 10 IoT Enterprise LTSC 64-Bit and Linux (dual-booting on separate hard drives)

CPU: Intel Core i7 9700K

RAM: 32GB

Motherboard: MSI Z3-90-A PRO (MS-7B98)

GPU: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

  • L3s@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago
    • You mentioned hard drive, is it a SSD or HDD?
    • How big of a drive?
    • When you say its getting used up, do you mean its running out of space or the performance is at 100%?

    For space: Check what your largest files are, then see if its safe to remove them. Tools like TreeSize are great for this specific usecase.

    For performance: Narrow down exactly whats causing it to hit 100% usage. To do that, open task manager, then click the hard drive column. Sort it so they most utilize process is at the top, and that will be whats causing it to max.

    Another thing you could try is running these two commands in an elevated powershell/cmd window (right click start, select “run cmd as admin”):

    • SFC /ScanNow
    • DISM /Online /Cleanup-Image /RestoreHealth
      • L3s@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        2 days ago

        That’s 931GB, so about 1TB.

        I would do TreeSize then, make sure to run it as admin (there’s an option once you open it in the top left). Have that scan all your folders on that drive, then expand the biggest folders to see what’s eating all that space up. If you lookup any files that you aren’t sure if they’re important, usually you’ll find some discussions about whether that file is critical or not (for example, if they’re in c:\windows\system32). Comb through each large folder and see what you can clean-up, and that’ll give you some space back hopefully, or at least show you what you’re storing that’s eating it all up.