Local Disc Drive (D:) is almost full but no files on it

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Local Disc Drive (D:) is almost full but no files on it

by Luke_Chapman May 23, 2018 3:39AM PDT

I have a gaming PC and I have been notified time after time again that my local disc drive is nearly full but when I opened the drive, there are no files. I have cleaned the disc, cleared the recycle bin but nothing is working. I can also see an effect this has on the performance ofgames.
Thank you to anyone who can help
Cheers, Luke

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Disc drive?

by Bob__B May 23, 2018 5:09AM PDT

Are you talking about a hdd or a dvd unit?

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Files Hidden

by Lairds May 23, 2018 6:55PM PDT

If you have installed certain folder protection software, it can hide your folders/files from being viewed. You can use WinHex to browse the files inside D:\.

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r. proffitt · Accepted Answer · May 23, 2018 7:15AM PDT

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Many of these are for Restore or Factory Recovery.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator May 23, 2018 7:15AM PDT

And with the last big Windows update the Ignore Space Checks on that drive was removed.

I fear a lot of folk are going to needlessly fix this one. The real fix is to set the ignore again for this drive like it was before.

A little more. I worry that folk will try to clean up D: or increase the size of D to get the warning (it's not an error) to go away.

Here's a post I made about the fix.
https://www.cnet.com/forums/discussions/i-have-a-mysterious-disk-f/#post-0871788e-29d5-4c8e-8b6f-23371614c30c

Hope this saves you from unnecessary work.

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