How to Deal with Local Disk C Running Out of Space?

I do have a 1TB drive, but Chrome keeps asking me to free up space. Is that related?

If you're using a virtual machine, you may need to increase your disk allocation. The Chrome prompts could be due to restrictions from admin policies; those can prevent it from saving data properly, which is annoying.

Have you checked the size of your OneDrive folder? That can take up a lot of space if you sync a lot of files.

If you have other drives with plenty of space, think about relocating your page file or moving programs to those drives. For games, you can also transfer your game library, but be cautious since moving games to an HDD might slow things down. You could also install new programs on the larger drive. Just keep in mind that this advice is somewhat general since we don’t know your specific usage.

You might want to try using tools like WinDirStat or TreeSize to identify what's consuming your disk space. If it's filling up quickly, it could be due to a log file or an application misbehaving. Also, consider disabling hibernation with 'powercfg -h off' in an admin command prompt; that might free up several GB of space.

Honestly, a larger drive could be the way to go. A 500 GB or even a 1 TB drive would be a much better fit than the relatively small 120-150 GB options, especially with things like System Recovery and Shadow copies using up disk space quickly.