Disk Space problem

[Milos Sladic]

Hi,
As you can see I got 94.9gb left on my drive, but the total size of all files on it is 93.7gb. Where have my 20gb gone?
I did disk cleanup and I did delete windows restore points.

Thank you in advance.

[ScratchCat]

Page and hibernate file?

[GoodBytes]

Use SpaceSniffer (free): http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

It will show you a map of what consumes the most.

[Enderman]

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Why-does-my-SSD-show-up-as-smaller-than-advertised/ta-p/129368

[Milos Sladic]

I quickly googled what you asked. So is this where my GBs are?

[Milos Sladic]

2 minutes ago, Enderman said:

http://forum.crucial.com/t5/Crucial-SSDs/Why-does-my-SSD-show-up-as-smaller-than-advertised/ta-p/129368

You didn't even read what I wrote. No wonder you got 33k posts...

[Squish4058]

If you want to find where space is going a program called WinDirstat is great

[Milos Sladic]

8 minutes ago, GoodBytes said:

Use SpaceSniffer (free): http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/

It will show you a map of what consumes the most.

I did it. But I still don't know where my 20GBs are.

[Enderman]

1 hour ago, SSWolf1993 said:

I did it. But I still don't know where my 20GBs are.

Have you tried actually doing the math?

Because that "93.3GB" in your first image do not include system files.

 

68.9+16.4+4.7+3.1 = 93.1

 

16+6.3 = 22.3

[Milos Sladic]

Well, how could I know what is included in right click/properties and what is not. I just googled page file and it has to do with some virtual memory. Why the **** is it as big as the windows folder itself...

[SpaceGhostC2C]

2 hours ago, SSWolf1993 said:

Well, how could I know what is included in right click/properties and what is not. I just googled page file and it has to do with some virtual memory. Why the **** is it as big as the windows folder itself...

It's where the stuff gets temporarily moved from RAM and back again. Consider it an extension of your system's memory. While it may not use it much if you have a lot of actual RAM (never expect zero usage, though), Windows will create a page file of a certain minimum size (either decided automatically or manually set) and adjust its size as needed (or not, if you set it fixed).

Windows may auto set it quite big, especially if you have a lot of RAm and hard disk space, but I don't really know the algorithm used to set the minimum size.

 

You can even completely disable it, although it won't give you much other than windows showing more free space in the disk  Many people will warn you against it, although if you have a lot of RAM you won't necessary experience any problem (I have two 16GB systems, one with and one without page file, and both run equally fine except when I run an own program which will require a manually set huge page file).

 

Most likely you'll be fine leaving it as it is.

[Milos Sladic]

That was helpful a lot.
I got a 16gb system too, and I don't mind it taking ~20Gb of my hard drive if it helps system to run better. I just thought it was some useless files somewhere taking space...

Thank you all.

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