SSD space issue?

[JackDoyne]

Windows shows used space 135gb but when i scan the drive it totals upto 125gb 10gb is missing? 

[Altecice]

Does this include your Hibernation file/ Page file?

[NumLock21]

recycle bin, and system restore reserves some for its own use.

[JackDoyne]

Just cleaned the drive using windows "disk clean up" also removed old restore points too 

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, JackDoyne said:

Just cleaned the drive using windows "disk clean up" also removed old restore points too 

How did you scan your folders?

[JackDoyne]

Just now, NumLock21 said:

How did you scan your folders?

highlighted them all and clicked properties 

[NumLock21]

1 minute ago, JackDoyne said:

highlighted them all and clicked properties 

Then you're doing it wrong. Hidden files won't get calculated like that. Press Ctrl+A and then click properties.

[JackDoyne]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Then you're doing it wrong. Hidden files won't get calculated like that. Press Ctrl+A and then click properties.

I've un-hidden them now and it's still the same, almost 10gb un-accounted for 

[NumLock21]

4 minutes ago, JackDoyne said:

I've un-hidden them now and it's still the same, almost 10gb un-accounted for 

Did you press Ctrl+A?

[ProjectBox153]

Perhaps the "missing" space is reserved for formatting? Formatting can take up quite a bit of space.

[JackDoyne]

1 minute ago, NumLock21 said:

Did you press Ctrl+A?

If i press ctrl + A it brings up the drive properties which tells me the wrong (or at least i think) information 

[JackDoyne]

2 minutes ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Perhaps the "missing" space is reserved for formatting? Formatting can take up quite a bit of space.

It just randomly vanished over night i had 106 gb last night 

[NumLock21]

Press Ctrl+A, now your folders will get highlighted. right click on any of the highlighted folders and click properties.

 

 

[JackDoyne]

2 minutes ago, NumLock21 said:

Press Ctrl+A, now your folders will get highlighted. right click on any of the highlighted folders and click properties.

Just restarted my PC randomly got 5gb of space back? i disabled hibernation 

[ProjectBox153]

1 minute ago, JackDoyne said:

Just restarted my PC randomly got 5gb of space back? i disabled hibernation 

Hibernation creates a file that is massive compared to most. It is large so it can hold everything that was in your RAM while the computer is off. That file is then emptied into RAM when the computer turns back on. 

[JackDoyne]

1 minute ago, Jamiec1130 said:

Hibernation creates a file that is massive compared to most. It is large so it can hold everything that was in your RAM while the computer is off. That file is then emptied into RAM when the computer turns back on. 

That's what i read, it's been doing this for days, space randomly going and coming back, there wasn't any Windows updates downloaded so it couldn't be that, i'm confused

[Mira Yurizaki]

33 minutes ago, JackDoyne said:

I've un-hidden them now and it's still the same, almost 10gb un-accounted for

You have to also uncheck "Hide protected operating system files".

 

It's better to use another program, like WinDirStat.

[vrod]

^- This. You also have "Super-Hidden" files like "pagefile.sys" which is memory swap to disk in case you use up the physical memory. It will purge upon shutdown and reappear when booting up again. It preallocates the pagefile space, you can change your page file settings in the control panel. Since you had hibernation on, there's also a file for that. It's basically a copy of your system's memory. When you bring the pc back from hibernation, it loads the system memory with data from this file.