SSD Filling Up/Losing Space

[MagicBinaryCode]

I have an Intel 530 series 240GB SSD as my main boot drive and a 1TB HDD where all of my games are now stored. About a month or so ago, I noticed my SSD filling up so I moved my last few games on my SSD (about 25GB) to my hard drive where all of my games are located. This gave left me about 50GB of free space on my SSD and I've noticed for the past two weeks it has gone from 50GB of free space to 24GB and I have not installed or downloading any big file to the SSD. Windows says that I have used 198GB of space on my SSD so I downloaded WinDirSat to figure out where any large file might be hiding. WinDirSat says that I have used about 100GB of space on my SSD (which included the pagefile and hibernation file). I have tried disk cleanup and CCleaner, but I'm still missing about 100GB or so of space on my SSD. Any ideas of where all of this space is?

[C0LL0SS0S]

Is the Partition correct ?

[Toddwjp]

please tell me you didn't de frag and check what you have got partition as well as folder on the ssd

[Badger906]

windows is good at creating junk, my temporary folder fills up to about a gig in about a week.. and thats just with some basic web browsing and gaming!

[ManIkWeet]

Try CCleaner...

[MagicBinaryCode]

I've never de-fragged the SSD and I've checked temp files and such with CCleaner. 

[Arct1c0n]

Turn off hibernate and shrink down your page file size. 

 

Also delete files within your Windows/Temp and Windows/SoftwareDistribution folders, DON"T RECYLE THEM

[Godlygamer23]

Check your System Restore points.

[Opask]

Use space sniffer to figure out which files and folders are using the most space.

[Godlygamer23]

please tell me you didn't de frag and check what you have got partition as well as folder on the ssd

Defragging doesn't reduce the space on the SSD. Defragging will not kill the SSD nor will it affect its life in any meaningful way.

[MagicBinaryCode]

The point is with this is that I am missing about 100GB of space on my SSD. I have used programs to find out where all of my space is going but they still come up with 72GB + 30GB or so on pagefile and hibernation file. Even with reducing the size of the pagefile, I would still be missing 100GB of space. I've also looked at the disk manager to check for partitions, but there are no extras on the SSD. I'm beginning to wonder if it is something wrong with the SSD that is causing this. 

[Arct1c0n]

The point is with this is that I am missing about 100GB of space on my SSD. I have used programs to find out where all of my space is going but they still come up with 72GB + 30GB or so on pagefile and hibernation file. Even with reducing the size of the pagefile, I would still be missing 100GB of space. I've also looked at the disk manager to check for partitions, but there are no extras on the SSD. I'm beginning to wonder if it is something wrong with the SSD that is causing this. 

 

 

Download the intel SSD manager and run tests

 

 

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18455/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Toolbox

[Beltboy]

run CHKDSK there is a common partition error where free space is incorrectly reported, chkdsk can fix it.

[TrigrH]

Intel has a program to keep ur ssd in good health:

 

 

Download the intel SSD manager and run tests

 

 

https://downloadcenter.intel.com/download/18455/Intel-Solid-State-Drive-Toolbox

 

 

Make sure ur firmware is up to date and u don't need a page file at all on a SSD.