pc format

[Marcelo Valerio]

I formated today my pc and after a fresh install of windows 

I didnt install any other software

and i noticed that 150gb is occupied 

i dont understand why, or which stuff could be installed in there

 

how to be able to use more space from my ssd 256gb and 150gb used

[VinZie]

You must've formatted the OS Drive but not formatted the other drives. Go into Disk Management in control panel, find the disk you want to format, right click on the disk, click on "Format"

[Marcelo Valerio]

@VinZie i have two drives an ssd 256gb in which the OS is installed and another a hdd of 6tb which has many movies and photos

when i would do what you mentioned I would loose the files on the other driver?

[RollinLower]

1 minute ago, Marcelo Valerio said:

@VinZie i have two drives an ssd 256gb in which the OS is installed and another a hdd of 6tb which has many movies and photos

when i would do what you mentioned I would loose the files on the other driver?

is your SSD partitioned?

 

also, yes if you format both drives you would lose all your photos and movies, so i would not do that.

[VinZie]

I am totally lost. Were you just not complaining about it?

6 minutes ago, Marcelo Valerio said:

I formated today my pc and after a fresh install of windows 

I didnt install any other software

and i noticed that 150gb is occupied 

i dont understand why, or which stuff could be installed in there

 

how to be able to use more space from my ssd 256gb and 150gb used

 

[Marcelo Valerio]

@VinZie rsrs
don´t worry 

I can explain it better

 

there is a ssd 256gb in which is used 150gb and in there suppose to have only the OS

so less than 20GB

and a HDD 6TB in which has my movies and stuff

 

I have done a fresh installation of windows because im having an issue with my pc

after switching it off (shutting down)  the fan and rgb were still on 

 

so thats why im doing a fresh install of the OS

 

answering your other question, there are no partions on the ssd or on the hdd

[Pharr Carnell]

enable view hidden files in folder options or control panel...it's likely to be both the pagefile and hiberfil.sys files occupying space. Google up how to and you can remove the pagefile from the SSD and transfer it to the 6TB hard drive; but you're stuck with the hiberfil.sys file...that's what Windows uses to maintain all your running programs/settings in its' Random Access Memory...to enable caching and fast file retrieval, and you cannot do much at all about the hyberfil.sys file...

 

FWIW...my system has a 500GB Samsung NVMe M.2 SSD and the hiberfil.sys file is a bit over 51.1 GB; I do not know if that translates to 10% of all hard drives on everyone's systems...or if that is just a random number...

[Marcelo Valerio]

@Pharr Carnell my 256gb having 150gb used 

Without anything also would be normal?