Randomly losing disk space on SSD

[fixME]

I have been losing disk space every day for the past 4 months or so.  My 120gb SSD is my bootdrive and I have not installed anything recently, so where is my disk space going?

My mechanical drive has my music, videos, games, downloads, big programs, etc.  The disk space on this drive does not changed unless I install or download something.

 

For a long time I was around 45gb disk space remaining, which seems accurate.  Then these past 4 months it has started to dip.  Some days it would fluctuate, where it would it be 21gb, then the next day it would go up 23.5gb.  Yesterday it was 2.31gb, then it was 1.5gb this morning, now it's 0.

 

 

 

[Arty]

system restore

are you defragging?

you try disk cleanup?

Is Hybrante on

[Arty]

-deleting  hiberfil system file
-enabling TRIM SSD
-running a full Malwarebytes system scan
-running disk check
-messing around with recycle bin size

Try

JETCLEAN

aswell

[mvitkun]

I have been losing disk space every day for the past 4 months or so.  My 120gb SSD is my bootdrive and I have not installed anything recently, so where is my disk space going?

My mechanical drive has my music, videos, games, downloads, big programs, etc.  The disk space on this drive does not changed unless I install or download something.

For a long time I was around 45gb disk space remaining, which seems accurate.  Then these past 4 months it has started to dip.  Some days it would fluctuate, where it would it be 21gb, then the next day it would go up 23.5gb.  Yesterday it was 2.31gb, then it was 1.5gb this morning, now it's 0.

Run WinDirStat and look around for stuff that you can delete.

It's really helpful to see a visual reconstruction of what the files on the SSD look like, for reference I use a 60GB SSD for my OS and several other programs, by using this I was able to figure out what files were taking up the space on the SSD to clear up 10GB.

 

[JSind11]

I have this issue aswel, I've found my downloads folder and temp Internet files have had 5 or 6 gig in them at time for some odd reason,

I've also noticed that even though I have programs installed on the mechanical drive, some data from those programs seems to auto save to the C: drive. So it might be worth checking there also,

I got so fed up with it in the end, I formatted the drive and re-installed windows.

[fixME]

Top 5 according to WindirStat:

 

Application extension - 21.7gb

System file - 16.5gb

Application - 3.0gb

IrfanView JPG File - 2.0gb

Windows Installer Package - 1.3gb

[fixME]

After installing 13 Windows updates and deleting 5.21gb of old updates through Disk Cleanup, I am up to 6.58gb.  This is still very low.

 

I used powershell and I have 36 restore points from 2015, 3 from 2014, and 2 from 2013.  Could these be eating up a lot of space?

[dragoon20005]

After installing 13 Windows updates and deleting 5.21gb of old updates through Disk Cleanup, I am up to 6.58gb.  This is still very low.

 

I used powershell and I have 36 restore points from 2015, 3 from 2014, and 2 from 2013.  Could these be eating up a lot of space?

yea restore point save snapshot of your PC states

 

and they eat up disk space

[fixME]

yea restore point save snapshot of your PC states

 

and they eat up disk space

 

Right but where can I see the amount of space being taken up?

[dragoon20005]

Right but where can I see the amount of space being taken up?

i use 3rd party programs like TuneUp Utill

 

it can tell me how much the restore points take up space and if i want to clean them

[fixME]

Looks like there is 54gb worth of restore points.  For some reason the restore point usage was set to 50%.

 

I'll delete all but one restore point and monitor my drive to see if it fluctuates anymore.

[fixME]

Well I was hovering around 7gb remaining on my SSD.  It would still fluctuate.

 

Half an hour ago I had 2gb.  Was watching a movie then I check my C:\ I have 58.7gb...  Looks like Windows deleted every restore point without asking me.  Never seen that happen before.

[Beltboy]

Well I was hovering around 7gb remaining on my SSD.  It would still fluctuate.

 

Half an hour ago I had 2gb.  Was watching a movie then I check my C:\ I have 58.7gb...  Looks like Windows deleted every restore point without asking me.  Never seen that happen before.

If you change the % allowed for restore points, windows will go and delete old restore points beyond that amount, either in the background or on the next shutdown.

[fixME]

If you change the % allowed for restore points, windows will go and delete old restore points beyond that amount, either in the background or on the next shutdown.

I didn't actually delete any restore points like I said I would, two posts above.

Windows deleted every single one of them without me touching any settings.