Windows 10 Fantom space taken

[LHRaBBiT]

Long story short - Swapped C disk (ssd) between different pc and out of nowhere there's half space occupied by nothing? Scanned all files in C disk and as you can see only 115GB is taken by files and the rest 106GB by nothing? Any possible fixes?

[Tan3l6]

WInDirStat usually helps to find what fills the drivespace.

[Levent]

You can download WinDirStat and run it as adminstrator and scan that drive. It should show you what is taking up your space.

[LHRaBBiT]

Well I just tried WinDirStat and it found nothing. 

[Tan3l6]

It shows what directories take space - 62.3 GB of files in Users dir!

The colorful boxes below directories also help - shows the largest files when yopu click on the colorful boxes.

 

[LHRaBBiT]

Just now, Tan3l6 said:

It shows what directories takle place - 62.3 GB of files in Users dir!

Well yes but it shows 127.9GB is taken, but windows shows that 215GB from C disk occupied...

[Tan3l6]

1 minute ago, LHRaBBiT said:

Well yes but it shows 127.9GB is taken, but windows shows that 215GB from C disk occupied...

I see - some Malwarebytes or similar scans done? Also chkdsk?

[LHRaBBiT]

Nether Malwarebytes or chkdsk fixed it. I bet it could be something wrong with windows itself. As I placed C disk into other PC couple weeks ago it lost ~50gb space, now it happened again. It could be that Windows artificially takes 50GB space as it thinks a fresh windows just been installed seeing the new PC (as fresh windows 10 would weigh about ~50GB). I didn't wanted to, but most likely the only solution might be to reinstall windows.

[DigitalGoat]

16 minutes ago, LHRaBBiT said:

Well yes but it shows 127.9GB is taken, but windows shows that 215GB from C disk occupied...

By my maths, and at a quick glance I see 160GB at least in the WinDirStat display, what is the pagefile size? Hibernation file size, if there?. The disk is 237GB.

[LHRaBBiT]

11 minutes ago, DigitalGoat said:

By my maths, and at a quick glance I see 160GB at least in the WinDirStat display, what is the pagefile size? Hibernation file size, if there?. The disk is 237GB.

Nevermind my last comment... Yes it was Hibernation file size that took over 80GB. Thanks!

[Levent]

17 minutes ago, DigitalGoat said:

By my maths, and at a quick glance I see 160GB at least in the WinDirStat display, what is the pagefile size? Hibernation file size, if there?. The disk is 237GB.

This is the very reason why I recommend running the application as administrator. Otherwise those don't show up in windirstat.

[demonix00]

Brain farted for a moment (along with a massive calculation fart), but a cleanup of old restore points and temp files using the disk clean-up tool should claw back some space along with checking the page file.