3 year old 128G SSD Full - Help

[dc0001]

My SSD is full and I don't want my computer to lock up. The available storage lessens everyday, this started 6 days ago. Under properties shows 105 G used, 309mb free.
The C drive folders show 66GB size on disk: All in C

I have done disk cleanup and deleted files, but no space is freeing up.

The SSD is for operating system and startup and the other hard drives are for storage.

I am adding a 4TB seagate barracuda pro as extra hard drive later today.

HP Envy Desktop 750-055xt
Windows 10 Pro 64 Bit
Intel core I7-4790
550 Watt Power supply
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1050 Ti
24 GB memory
128 GB SSD
1.5TB HD

Computer used everyday, no gaming but photos, graphics, videos, music, conversions, editing, burning and the like.

I have searched & googled and I do not know what to do at this point, the computer is starting up slower each day. Could the SSD be failing? Any help or assistance is greatly appreciated.

 

[USAFRet]

You just need to move some stuff off the SSD.

Discover exactly what is on there.
Install and run WinDirStat
Run as Adminstrator.
Post a screencap here.

Likely suspects:
Restore Point settings.
Hibernation
large page file
Junk you've downloaded and forgot about
Games you no longer play.


Bottom line - a 120GB drive is too small if it is the only drive.
It is marginal if there are other drives.

 

[dc0001]

You just need to move some stuff off the SSD.

Discover exactly what is on there.
Install and run WinDirStat
Run as Adminstrator.
Post a screencap here.

Likely suspects:
Restore Point settings.
Hibernation
large page file
Junk you've downloaded and forgot about
Games you no longer play.


Bottom line - a 120GB drive is too small if it is the only drive.
It is marginal if there are other drives.

Hi, thanks for your response. I have been unable to upload the screen shot.
It shows 17.8G in hiberfil.sys, 17G in pagefile.sys.
30G in windows, and 22G in users

 

[USAFRet]

Hi, thanks for your response. I have been unable to upload the screen shot.
It shows 17.8G in hiberfil.sys, 17G in pagefile.sys.
30G in windows, and 22G in users

There's your two main culprits.
1. Turn that hibernation OFF, and recover 18GB.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/920730/how-to-disable-and-re-enable-hibernation-on-a-computer-that-is-running

Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press Enter.
Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

2. Decrease your pagefile. 17GB is far too large.
I've had mine set at 1GB min/max for years. With 24GB RAM as you have, you should do the same.

 

[dc0001]

Hi, thanks for your response. I have been unable to upload the screen shot.
It shows 17.8G in hiberfil.sys, 17G in pagefile.sys.
30G in windows, and 22G in users

There's your two main culprits.
1. Turn that hibernation OFF, and recover 18GB.

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/920730/how-to-disable-and-re-enable-hibernation-on-a-computer-that-is-running

Click Start, and then type cmd in the Start Search box.
In the search results list, right-click Command Prompt, and then click Run as Administrator.
When you are prompted by User Account Control, click Continue.
At the command prompt, type powercfg.exe /hibernate off, and then press Enter.
Type exit, and then press Enter to close the Command Prompt window.

2. Decrease your pagefile. 17GB is far too large.
I've had mine set at 1GB min/max for years. With 24GB RAM as you have, you should do the same.

Thanks; I did those things, and now have 30G free. What is app data? There were lots of gigs in app data as well.
Will any of this affect my pc performance negatively?

 

[USAFRet]

Thanks; I did those things, and now have 30G free. What is app data? There were lots of gigs in app data as well.
Will any of this affect my pc performance negatively?

AppData is where a lot of applications store their data and configuration settings.
Leave it be.