wierd C drive problem

[youneslol]

Hello,

 

i have a small problem with my c drive, which is 250GB ssd. i used this drive to install windows and nothing else( atleast thats what i think).

 

now last week i notices i only had like 400MB left so i started to delete my temp files and cache's etc... 

 

this problem is still going on at the moment i cleared like 25GB already, but now im out of options. i've searched for this topic over and over again and tried every solution. then i saw a thread about windirstat so i thought i'd give it a try and i've noticed that my drive says i use abàout 200GB and windirstat says i only use about 65GB.

 

my default download paths lead to my bigger ssd and hdd so that should be no problem.

 

what can i do to fix this or is my ssd the problem ?

 

thanks very much in advance

[Oshino Shinobu]

Run WinDirStat as administrator, there's a lot it won't pick up otherwise. 

[youneslol]

5 minutes ago, Oshino Shinobu said:

Run WinDirStat as administrator, there's a lot it won't pick up otherwise. 

hello and thanks for replying,

i just ran it as administrator and now it says 66.7GB

[SkilledRebuilds]

Say you have 8GB RAM or 16GB RAM.

Disable Hibernation and youll get 8 or 16GB back.

Open a CMD Prompt with Admin rights.

Type

 

Powercfg -h off

 

Done.

However...

In SOME CASES on random machines doing this it does half the job...., if you didnt gain it back....you'll have to reboot, activate the show hidden files in "view properties"tabs, then delete hiberf.sys thats located on C:\ root folder.

 

Saving space thats equal to RAM amount

[youneslol]

2 minutes ago, SkilledRebuilds said:

Say you have 8GB RAM or 16GB RAM.

Disable Hibernation and youll get 8 or 16GB back.

Open a CMD Prompt with Admin rights.

Type

 

Powercfg -h off

 

Done.

However...

In SOME CASES on random machines doing this it does half the job...., if you didnt gain it back....you'll have to reboot, activate the show hidden files in "view properties"tabs, then delete hiberf.sys thats located on C:\ root folder.

 

Saving space thats equal to RAM amount

hi, i will try that but like i have 32 GB of ram atm, but how does that explain the other storage that is missing ?

i am gratefull with all the help i can get don't get me wrong, but i just don't understand what is happening here.

 

thanks for helping me

[Tech87]

I've never used windirstat, so I'm not familiar with it.

 

When I have users with storage issues at work, I always use the program treesize free.

It scans a drive and shows a graphical breakdown of all the data and which folders are the largest.

 

Give that a try.

[youneslol]

On 4/24/2021 at 5:14 PM, Tech87 said:

I've never used windirstat, so I'm not familiar with it.

 

When I have users with storage issues at work, I always use the program treesize free.

It scans a drive and shows a graphical breakdown of all the data and which folders are the largest.

 

Give that a try.

hey, sorry for such a late respons i didnt see ur comment. i tried the program and this showed a very high usage i will upload the screenshots with this post. is this normal ?

 

thanks for the response and again sorry for the late answer

[youneslol]

On 4/24/2021 at 5:14 PM, Tech87 said:

I've never used windirstat, so I'm not familiar with it.

 

When I have users with storage issues at work, I always use the program treesize free.

It scans a drive and shows a graphical breakdown of all the data and which folders are the largest.

 

Give that a try.

oh my god bro, thank you very much that was the problem..

 

you won't believe how happy i am thanks for the suggestion.

 

thanks again haha

[Tech87]

Your system has 130GB of files spooled in the printer directory. That's crazy. I've never seen that before.

 

Glad the program helped you find and resolve that issue. Cheers!