HD FILLED UP!

Today I was doing a cleanup and it stopped at 25% for a while and I went out and came back to see my hard drive has barely any space on it.. My hard drive is 450gb and had 410 gbs free when I left, when I came back I have 31.3 left?!! Please help me as this computer is brand new and I don't want it messed up already. :(:(

Can we guess that you were running Wipe Free Space? If you have not cancelled CC then try to let it run its course. It will take a long time, but should release the free space back to you when it's finished. If you have cancelled CC then look in the root directory (c drive) for a file with a random filename that is massively large and was created on the date/time when you ran CC. There may be more than one, I'm not sure. Shift/del it/them.

Wipe free space is an absolute waste of time on a new pc (and some will say on an old one too). If you haven't run wfs, then post back.

I did not use the wfs feature cause tha would have even take longer. But I do use the DoD method.

Actually, I was using the Guttmann

(35 Passes).. Someone PLEASE PLEASE Help, I searched all over and can't find any files.