I would highly recommend downloading WizTree from Antibody Software. http://antibody-software.com/web/so.....ur-hard-drive/

This'll show you what's eating up all your space, then figuring out how to get rid of whatever it is from that point is much easier.

Holy shit, thanks for showing me this, at least.

Was running WinDirStat earlier, so at first I was like 'oh, great, a WinDirStat clone', but man is this thing fast.

Usually nothing, until there's a problem suddenly.

Really tempted to go back to the old Samsung laptop. American made computers have so many problems, but the new one has an updated screen. The old one works better, but the colors are wrong, which is why I kept having that contrast problem.

That kinda sounds like a virus, if you have antivirus software I would give it a quick run just to make sure, otherwise I'm not sure what would cause space issues like that.

On the recovery drive?

I ended up wiping everything and it's still full. Upon further research, it appears that DELL and HP computer just sort of continually do backups on the D drive, which is not accessible at all, and then erase the oldest backup when it gets full. I'm not supposed to be getting an error notifying me that the disk is almost full, even though it is. The C drive i s pretty much empty, because I know better than to actually put the files on the computer. The only things I use consistently are MS Office programs, Chrome, an Antivirus, and an art program.

If you right click My Computer/This PC, then hit System Protection on the left, then you can hit configure and make sure that if you leave it on it's max usage is low enough not to interfere. This sorta sounds like what's going on, but I might be misinterpreting the problem.

I think it just overheated. Turns out, the keyboard is part of the ventilation system.

A peculiar design plan :p I'm glad you figured out a solution though

Assuming you've never touched your D: drive and you are using windows, it is what windows uses for backups. You need to change your backup settings to save less.

If you were using Clip Studio or SAI at the time both have ways of recovering files from a crash because they store data in temp files.

Can you explain how in more detail? I tried to expand the partition, but I'm locked out. I can't access any of the folders. The recovery settings don't let me choose where to save.

I also don't know how to do the second thing, but I think the temp files get wiped in a shutdown. The program won't even keep my custom shortcut keys.

Windows will use one drive or another to store backups on. The backups are just registries, settings, files in the user directory, etc. If you go to start -> computer -> right click and select properties -> system protection, you will see which drives are being backed up and where, you can hit configure for each one and decide how much space to allow it. I usually turn it off since I do manual backups of all my important files.

The other thing is, check to see if your C:/user/ (my documents, music, movies, etc) directories are turned into shortcuts, just a hunch, there is a virus from Asia called win32.silly that can mess with permissions and cause file transfers >500mb to slow to a halt. Its easily removed via safe mode if thats the case.

The D drive doesn't even show up on the protections list. It doesn't appear to be discoverable. ????

Hmm, I would get CrystalDisk or something and check the health rating of the drive. Then again, maybe the file system was corrupted on the D:/ Its hard to figure out without physical access.

The original post makes it sound like your computer shut down initially due to throttling. Computers should be able to handle maximum hardware loads unless you went on the low budget pre-built end. If the fans are blasting and it can't handle the stress, then its probably time to knock all the dust and spiderwebs out of the heatsinks so air can pass through. I had a laptop start throttling and killed its own power within the second that I ran a stress test. The culprit... dog hair was caked up in the heatsinks.

In the end, ***if its unrecoverable***, you can reformat the drive (will wipe out anything that was on it) in computer management and make it recognized again. If you go that route, download "recuva" and run it with the deep scan option enabled and see if you can get anything back.

Exactly what Spiffy said, also you can check to see if there are files in
C:/Users/Username/Documents/CELSYS_EN/CLIPStudioPaintData/Documentbackup
or
C:/Users/Username/Documents/CELSYS_EN/CLIPStudioPaintData/initialize back up
for clip studio. Sai uses the /tmp/ directory.