200 gb missing from SSD after restore

[Philipg88]

Hi

I recently did a restoration of windows 8.1 which i had installed on a corsair 500 gb SSD
Now when examining the disk space, it only shows that 100 gb is free, although the C drive only has 109 gb of used space.. So where is this 240 gb of space located?.. I have deleted the hibernation file, and the pagefile is only a couple of gigabytes.. So there is this massive amount that the system just isn't showing.. How can i find and free up this space?

 

[crisan_tiberiu]

You should go to computer management / storage devices and see if there is any unallocated space on your SSD.
In Windows 8,1, right click on My computer / Manage/ Storage / Disk Management. I guess that under Windows 7 is the same.

 

[Philipg88]

You should go to computer management / storage devices and see if there is any unallocated space on your SSD.
In Windows 8,1, right click on My computer / Manage/ Storage / Disk Management. I guess that under Windows 7 is the same.

No, sorry.. the hard drive does not have any unallocated space..

 

[Philipg88]

Strange thing is though, that the available space is about the same as before i restored the system by installing from the ISO file of windows.. Could i have installed windows 8.1 twice? and the previous version with all the files is still there hidden somewhere?

 

[Philipg88]

Ok, found the solution, its to delete the windows.old file.. Which was not showing up as storage space on C:
Tutorial in how to do it

http://techzend.com/delete-windows-old-folder-81/

 

[crisan_tiberiu]

As a recomendation for the future, always format before installing Windows (but backup data before )

 

[SBMfromLA]

Go to the website of your SSD and download their utility program... if you have a Samsung get Magician... if you have a Corsair... get Corsair SSD Toolbox.

I'm thinking that maybe something got messed up and your drive accidentally created a 200GB overprovisioning or something like that... if so, it will tell you. I just checked my drive... and Disk Management does NOT show the overprovisioning part of my drive.