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Loss of disk space despite clean install
I recently did a clean install of W10 from a USB drive that I downloaded the media on from Microsoft. I did this because my 580 GB hard drive showed only 20 GB of free space despite the fact that I really don't store that much data. After the clean install of W10, Windows explorer still shows I am using 500 GB of disk space and only have 80 GB of free space. All apps are gone now as are my files. I did backup to Macrium, but that is another issue. Right now I am just trying to get some free disk space. I have a Dell desktop with 4 GB RAM and 580 GB hard drive. I am not at that computer right now and cannot remember the exact chip specs, but I think it has a 2.5 MHz speed. Any ideas on why my disk is so full despite a clean reinstall of W10? Any suggestions on how to fix it? I appreciate your help. Also, prior to reinstall I was getting frequent BSOD's with various different error codes, never the same one. In addition, restart does not seem to work right. It hangs when trying to restart and I have to shut it down and restart manually. I don't know about the BSOD issue yet, but the restart issue is still a problem after the reinstall.