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SSD starting to reduce its free space !

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Hi, about half year ago I bought Kingston HyperX SSD 120GB for my new boot device. After instaling my OS.primary programs on it there was 60-64 GB of free space. Few days ago I noticed that the free space starts to reduce every day (45, then 30, then 25......) and now it is 17 GB. Any ideas what is happening? What I should do?

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Look into what you installed in the past days. And make sure you don't keep your movies on the desktop.

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Download WinDirStat, it'll show you the size of all files on your drive. Also fun CCleaner to get rid of temp files.

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Look into what you installed in the past days. And make sure you don't keep your movies on the desktop.

My movies is saved on HDD and yestarday I made cleaning of programs i dont use and still should I reinstall my OS ?

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My movies is saved on HDD and yestarday I made cleaning of programs i dont use and still should I reinstall my OS ?

If it really does get cramped and you don't mind reinstalling ofc that works. Pull out your hdd, do a clean os install and there you have it.

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 So this is what i see in WinDirStat,post-25435-0-03412100-1417118687_thumb.p, why C:/ is 60GB total when there is 17 GB of free space from 120 GB

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Ok I reinstall my OS and going to watch if this is going to happened again.

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Run CrystalDiskInfo to check the disk health. Make sure that it's not going sour. Reinstalling the O/S won't do a thing if the disk is going. Also run a anti malware utility like from Malwarebytes to make sure nothing else is going on.

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Are you sure that your C: partition ever had more than those 60 GB? After all, windows by default creates some hidden system partitions (I just don't remember how big these can be)...

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Well after checking my SSD with some programs nothing strange appear. It shows that SSD life is 100%, and after reinstalling my OS no more reduce of its free space from 111 GB of total now i have 62 GB free and it is staying at this. Thanks to everyone who helped me and wrote suggestions.

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