Missing hard drive space

[SpaceDuckDevourerOfWorlds]

Windows says that there is on 7.18 gigs available out of 148. But when I added up the sise of the folders in my root directory it equaled aroud 70 gigs. Could anyone help me to know where are the missing space is being used.

 

 

[JeffreyEagan]

Probably your pagefile.

[SpaceDuckDevourerOfWorlds]

Probably your pagefile.

What do you mean?

[JeffreyEagan]

What do you mean?

Pagefile is virtual RAM stored on your hard drive, by default on a windows install, it's put onto the drive and the size is dynamically managed by the system itself. Pagefile is only accessed when you start running out of memory.

[Russboy360]

Or space used by system restore/backup files

[SpaceDuckDevourerOfWorlds]

Pagefile is virtual RAM stored on your hard drive, by default on a windows install, it's put onto the drive and the size is dynamically managed by the system itself. Pagefile is only accessed when you start running out of memory.

Is there a way I can clear it or something.

 

And by the way I use hybernate could that be an issue.

[Jade]

Is there a way I can clear it or something.

 

And by the way I use hybernate could that be an issue.

Yes. Disable hibernate and move the page file to another drive.

[SpaceDuckDevourerOfWorlds]

Yes. Disable hibernate and move the page file to another drive.

Well that would only give me back the amount of ram I have, which is 6 gigs but i'm missing around 80 gigs of space.

[Jade]

Well that would only give me back the amount of ram I have, which is 6 gigs but i'm missing around 80 gigs of space.

Run WinDirStat. You'll get something like this. The larger the "Block" the larger the file.

[SpaceDuckDevourerOfWorlds]

Run WinDirStat. You'll get something like this. The larger the "Block" the larger the file.

 

I ran it and it says that there is only 77gigs used

[Jade]

I ran it and it says that there is only 77gigs used

Image is broken.

[SpaceDuckDevourerOfWorlds]

Image is broken.

 

does this work