Storage Sons Hard drive keeps filling itself up

As soon as my lad deletes stuff from his HDD it fills itself back up again.

Its not a windows drive as that lives on one of his SSD's.

We have run malware bytes with no issues and I tried running a program called spacesniffer but i couldnt make head nor tail of it.

Also I have disabled Hibernation just in case.

Anyone have any ideas about what might be going on?

 

Is System Protection turned on for that drive?

 

Just checked and its off for that drive

 

Is windows putting the/a page file on it?

 

Woken up with a stinking headache this morning, nope not a hangover as im on antibiotics due to my tooth.

I couldnt remember what the pagefile was called it was doing my head in (even more than the headache).

Going to check now thanks.

 

also check backup settings for previous versions

 

1) Tell him to stop downloading Teh Pr0n when you're not looking
2) Grab WinDirStat, run as admin (otherwise will not 'see' large system files), and scan the drive to see what's gobbling the drive space

 

Does he play Fortnite?

If so, Fortnite likes to fill up drives with old data that it no longer requires.

Had a couple of friends have the same issue. Another vote for WinDirStat - it showed me the problem.