Problem with HDD storage after system wipe (Solved)

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So i ran into some issues with my overclocking on my pc. Bluescreens, problem with booting etc. So I decided to set all to default and even reseted my cmos due to problem with booting. All went fine until I tried booting up into windows 10. "Problem has occured, one of your system files has been corrupted" specifically a few files in system32. Searched for a bit and came to the conclusion that wiping the disc and reinstalling windows was to be the fastest method of fixing this.

Everything worked and still is. The issue is that my HDD is still filled even though I have wiped it. I went on to really confirm this by trying to install most of all my past programs (which has all been uninstalled) and it fills up the disc even more. On my HDD I have 1 TB of storage and about 500 GB was to games and such. Before I wiped everything I had exact 140 GB left on my disc & when I wiped the HDD I still have 140 GB (120 now since I had to install some programs). How is this even possible? Is there some backup folder that backups everything? I mean its called "reinstalling" for a reason.
 
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Just a random idea, go to "This PC" and type "size: " in the search box and choose gigantic or whatever the biggest option is.

Else use some cleanup app and see if you have any large temp files
 
Sounds like your hard drive is dying tbh, if nothing else works I'd get a new one...
 
Either that or you fucked up when wiping it with the partitions
 
William! :D said:
Just a random idea, go to "This PC" and type "size: " in the search box and choose gigantic or whatever the biggest option is.

Else use some cleanup app and see if you have any large temp files
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Tried searching & also tried a cleanup program, but it didnt find anything worth several hundreds of GB :/
 
.george said:
Sounds like your hard drive is dying tbh, if nothing else works I'd get a new one...
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Yeah was kinda thinking that aswell. Well, if nothing else works I guess I'll just have to get a new harddrive. What kind of HDD would you recomend?
 
Maybe try following a tutorial and wiping it again (a few times) and creating a new partition.
 
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When you did the Windows installation, did you delete and re-create the whole partition(s)?

And if you go for a new disk, go SSD!
 
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Nivinski said:
When you did the Windows installation, did you delete and re-create the whole partition(s)?

And if you go for a new disk, go SSD!
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Yes I did, as for SSD kinda too late now since I already ordered an HDD (Could't afford an SSD with 500 gigs or more). Will be getting it tomorrow but the same problem still remains with my current hdd. Guess its going to be a mystery huh
 
Pan32 said:
Check your HDD status with CrystalDiskInfo (https://osdn.net/dl/crystaldiskinfo/CrystalDiskInfo8_1_0.exe), post the status here. Check your SATA cable for loose connectors.

Also, where did you format your disk? Did you delete the partition and create a new one?
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CrystalDiskInfo 8.1.0 (C) 2008-2019 hiyohiyo
Crystal Dew World : https://crystalmark.info/
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OS : Windows 10 [10.0 Build 17134] (x64)
Date : 2019/05/03 22:23:20

-- Controller Map ----------------------------------------------------------
- ATA Channel 0 (0) [ATA]
+ ATA Channel 1 (1) [ATA]
- Optiarc DVD RW AD-7260S ATA Device
+ Standard-Dual Channel PCI IDE-styrenhet [ATA]
+ ATA Channel 0 (0)
- SAMSUNG HD103SJ ATA Device
- ATA Channel 1 (1)
+ Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 3B26 [ATA]
- ATA Channel 0 (0)
- ATA Channel 1 (1)
+ Standard-Dual Channel PCI IDE-styrenhet [ATA]
- ATA Channel 0 (0)
- ATA Channel 1 (1)
+ Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 3B20 [ATA]
- ATA Channel 0 (0)
- ATA Channel 1 (1)
- Styrenhet för Microsoft Lagringsutrymmen [SCSI]

-- Disk List ---------------------------------------------------------------
(1) SAMSUNG HD103SJ : 1000,2 GB [0/4/0, pd1]

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(1) SAMSUNG HD103SJ
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Model : SAMSUNG HD103SJ
Firmware : 1AJ10001
Serial Number : S246J9BZA24060
Disk Size : 1000,2 GB (8,4/137,4/1000,2/1000,2)
Buffer Size : 32767 KB
Queue Depth : 32
# of Sectors : 1953525168
Rotation Rate : 7200 RPM
Interface : Serial ATA
Major Version : ATA8-ACS
Minor Version : ATA8-ACS version 6
Transfer Mode : ---- | SATA/300
Power On Hours : 31325 timmar
Power On Count : 5512 gånger
Temperature : 33 C (91 F)
Health Status : Bra
Features : S.M.A.R.T., APM, AAM, 48bit LBA, NCQ
APM Level : 0000h [OFF]
AAM Level : FE00h [OFF]
Drive Letter : C:

-- S.M.A.R.T. --------------------------------------------------------------
ID Cur Wor Thr RawValues(6) Attribute Name
01 100 100 _51 0000000001A7 Read Error Rate
02 252 252 __0 000000000000 Throughput Performance
03 _70 _70 _25 0000000023BA Spin-Up Time
04 _95 _95 __0 00000000158A Start/Stop Count
05 252 252 _10 000000000000 Reallocated Sectors Count
07 252 252 _51 000000000000 Seek Error Rate
08 252 252 _15 000000000000 Seek Time Performance
09 100 100 __0 000000007A5D Power-On Hours
0A 252 252 _51 000000000000 Spin Retry Count
0B 252 252 __0 000000000000 Recalibration Retries
0C _95 _95 __0 000000001588 Power Cycle Count
BF 100 100 __0 000000000053 G-Sense Error Rate
C0 252 252 __0 000000000000 Power-off Retract Count
C2 _64 _55 __0 002D00060021 Temperature
C3 100 100 __0 000000000000 Hardware ECC recovered
C4 252 252 __0 000000000000 Reallocation Event Count
C5 252 100 __0 000000000000 Current Pending Sector Count
C6 252 252 __0 000000000000 Uncorrectable Sector Count
C7 100 100 __0 000000000002 UltraDMA CRC Error Count
C8 100 100 __0 00000000000F Write Error Rate
DF 252 252 __0 000000000000 Load/Unload Retry Count
E1 100 100 __0 0000000015A3 Load/Unload Cycle Count

-- IDENTIFY_DEVICE ---------------------------------------------------------
0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
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010: 5332 3436 4A39 425A 4132 3430 3630 2020 2020 2020
020: 0000 FFFF 0050 3141 4A31 3030 3031 5341 4D53 554E
030: 4720 4844 3130 3353 4A20 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020
040: 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 2020 8010 4000 2F00
050: 4000 0200 0200 0007 3FFF 0010 003F FC10 00FB 0110
060: FFFF 0FFF 0000 0007 0003 0078 0078 0078 0078 0000
070: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 001F 1706 0000 004C 0040
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090: 004B 0000 FFFE 0000 FE00 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
100: 6DB0 7470 0000 0000 0000 0000 4000 0000 5002 4E92
110: 03AD FA4C 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 401C
120: 401C 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0029 0000
130: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
140: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
150: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
160: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0002 0000
170: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
180: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
190: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
200: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 003F 0000 0000 0000
210: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 1C20 0000 0000
220: 0000 0000 101F 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
230: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0001 0400 0000 0000 0000 0000
240: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000
250: 0000 0000 0000 0000 0000 04A5

-- SMART_READ_DATA ---------------------------------------------------------
+0 +1 +2 +3 +4 +5 +6 +7 +8 +9 +A +B +C +D +E +F
000: 10 00 01 2F 00 64 64 A7 01 00 00 00 00 00 02 26
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-- SMART_READ_THRESHOLD ----------------------------------------------------
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Zeus said:
Could't afford an SSD with 500 gigs or more
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You don't really need 500 gigs for your SSD, unless you have a really powerful PC which is capable of running games which are so heavy that they actually require to be installed on an SSD. In other games, the increase will be like 1-2 FPS, not more. Maybe some scenes in singleplayer games will be loaded faster, I donno.
There're only few of such games. For most systems, it's OK to have like 120 GB on your SSD which would cost you about the same price as a 1 TB HDD. No need to go for HyperX and other stuff like that, just buy a cheap one. An SSD is a great thing to have your system and programs on. When I didn't have an HDD, I could have the OS, programs, CSS and a couple of other games on it. And it still worked pretty well tbh.
 
Tom said:
You don't really need 500 gigs for your SSD, unless you have a really powerful PC which is capable of running games which are so heavy that they actually require to be installed on an SSD. In other games, the increase will be like 1-2 FPS, not more. Maybe some scenes in singleplayer games will be loaded faster, I donno.
There're only few of such games. For most systems, it's OK to have like 120 GB on your SSD which would cost you about the same price as a 1 TB HDD. No need to go for HyperX and other stuff like that, just buy a cheap one. An SSD is a great thing to have your system and programs on. When I didn't have an HDD, I could have the OS, programs, CSS and a couple of other games on it. And it still worked pretty well tbh.
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Thing is that I need atleast 500 gigs for games & work documents. A 120-250 GB disc will not be enough for me whether or not its an HDD or SDD.
 
Looking at it, it doesn't look like it has issues, you don't have bad sectors and SMART is not saying anything too bad. Are you 100% sure you actually formatted the drive?
 
Pan32 said:
Looking at it, it doesn't look like it has issues, you don't have bad sectors and SMART is not saying anything too bad. Are you 100% sure you actually formatted the drive?
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Yeah, I formatted the drive
 
Got my new HDD today, installed windows and all other apps without any issues. Won't try to fix the other one or try to find out what its mysterious problem was. So problem *kinda* fixed, I guess? yay moon2S
 
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