Notebooks & Netbooks

[crogates]

I get an error message telling me that there is low disk space on my Data(D) disk. When I look at the profile for that disk, the useage band is red and tells me that there are only 20.1MB free out of 225GB. However, when I look to see what is on the disk, there are only 3 folders, using up only 885KB between them. How can I find out what is taking up all the space and do something to reduce it?

[HK53T]

unhide all the data

tools, options, view, show hidden files/folders and uncheck the other hide ones

[miguel69]

have you been saving your eRecovery backups to the D: drive? these files are hidden normally and take a lot of room. you should switch to making the eRecovery backups to an external drive(a big one 500+GB) and delete the backup file on your d: drive.  also you can go into "control panel/system&maint/admin tools/free disk space"  and see what you can recover there.