Inlusive 15gb taken up on SSD...

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Chatting to my dad today about SSDs and was saying about how my 60gb was enough for all my apps and os etc. I went to say that I had only used about 30gb of mine and went to check but I noticed that I had only 14.2gb free. I ran Ccleaner and got this to 15gb free, but I have no idea what is using that space up. If I go into the drive, with hidden files and folders on and select everything, its only 28gb, so I have no idea where this other 15gb is being taken up. Only noticed it tonight...ideas?
 
smeaney said:
Chatting to my dad today about SSDs and was saying about how my 60gb was enough for all my apps and os etc. I went to say that I had only used about 30gb of mine and went to check but I noticed that I had only 14.2gb free. I ran Ccleaner and got this to 15gb free, but I have no idea what is using that space up. If I go into the drive, with hidden files and folders on and select everything, its only 28gb, so I have no idea where this other 15gb is being taken up. Only noticed it tonight...ideas?
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Do you have system restore enabled on the drive?
 
Assuming your running Win 7 and have recently patched to SP1 - search for cleaning up winsxs folder to remove all the SP1 files you no longer need.
 
MikeHunt79 said:
Do you have system restore enabled on the drive?
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Nope its disabled.

shine said:
Assuming your running Win 7 and have recently patched to SP1 - search for cleaning up winsxs folder to remove all the SP1 files you no longer need.
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I was not aware that it had recently patched, but I will try this theory. Like I said, it literally changed today.
 
Just looked at winsxs, and as full of folders as you would have expected, but the whole folder itself is under 7gb, so its not going to be that. :(
 
try installing windirstat, gives a nice graphical representation of drive usage, was helpful for me in finding a hidden 8GB temp photoshop file a while back.
 
I have this problem as well, as I mentioned here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19064762&postcount=25

Selecting everything on my C Drive and clicking on properties shows only 35 Gb used, but I only have 6.75 Gb free?

I didnt have any system restores set on the SSD, already tried deleting them and nothing changed, and theres no games or anything installed on it that I want to delete, its just windows, drivers, and some apps, I cant see anything that is using up the extra 15ish Gb.
 
You could try:

- Turn off System Restore.
- Turn off Hibernation and delete the Hibernation file.
- Clean out temporary files.
- Run disk cleaner.
 
Kotu said:
try installing windirstat, gives a nice graphical representation of drive usage, was helpful for me in finding a hidden 8GB temp photoshop file a while back.
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I am downloading now.

bhavv said:
I have this problem as well, as I mentioned here:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showpost.php?p=19064762&postcount=25

Selecting everything on my C Drive and clicking on properties shows only 35 Gb used, but I only have 6.75 Gb free?

I didnt have any system restores set on the SSD, already tried deleting them and nothing changed, and theres no games or anything installed on it that I want to delete, its just windows, drivers, and some apps, I cant see anything that is using up the extra 15ish Gb.
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So yours is exactally, or near enough 15gb too?
 
Ok so I used WinDirStat and my biggest files were pagefile.sys at 12gb, hiberfil.sys at 9gb and the winsxs folder at 6.9gb.

Could it be that (and little research has gone into this) that my pagefile has increased in size due to upping my RAM from 4gb to 12gb today?

EDIT: Apparently I need 1.5times or 2times the amount of physical RAM I have has a pagefile. So when I increased from 4 to 8gb today, it increased my pagefile by 12 or 16gb...
EDIT2: Wait a second...that means my page file size is 1:1 with my RAM... is that right?
 
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Tute said:
You could try:
- Turn off Hibernation and delete the Hibernation file.
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Excellent! Done this and saved myself 9gb. I am happier now. I understand why the pagefile got so big, but not the hiberfil.sys file all of a sudden. All sorted now.

Thanks all!
 
By default in Windows 7, the size of the hibernation file (hiberfil.sys) will be the same as the amount of installed RAM on your computer.
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24 Gb :O

My SSD free space went down from 15 Gb to 7.5 Gb after I got 24 Gb. Dont ask me why I did, I'm just an upgradeaholic. Looking for that hibernation file.

Where is that file? My start menu's search box is absolutely useless and never finds anything.
 
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its usually in the root of the drive windows is installed on, c:/ you might need to adjust settings so hidden and system files are shown to see it.
 
bhavv said:
24 Gb :O

My SSD free space went down from 15 Gb to 7.5 Gb after I got 24 Gb. Dont ask me why I did, I'm just an upgradeaholic. Looking for that hibernation file.

Where is that file? My start menu's search box is absolutely useless and never finds anything.
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http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15140/what-is-hiberfil.sys-and-how-do-i-delete-it/

That link helped me, really easy!

Disable Hibernate (and Delete hiberfil.sys) in Windows 7 or Vista

You’ll need to open an administrator mode command prompt by right-clicking on the command prompt in the start menu, and then choosing Run as Administrator. Once you’re there, type in the following command:

powercfg -h off
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Doing that will delete the hiberfil, and also you will know its disabled due to the hibernation option from your start menu dissappearing.
 
I set my folder options to view hidden files and I still cant see any hidden files.

I already had hibernate mode switched off, so I dont think its that.
 
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just to point out, the hibernate file is used for vista/win7 sleep as part of hybrid sleep, with it disabled, you will lose the fallback to hibernate if the computer loses power while under sleep. It might not apply here, but the effect of this will most likely be seen if you set the computer to sleep and then turn it off at the plug (I know a couple of people who do this)
 
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