50gb of missing space on 120gb SSD

[On-A-Downer]

Hello it seems I have a common SSD problem. Right clicking my SSD in my computer tells me I have only around 8gb of space remaining, going through the files and right clicking the folders though only adds upto around 60-65gb of data, so where is the other 50-55gb I should have ?

Indexing is turned off and I followed some steps I saw on another website to disable loads of stuff like restore points which did recover me about 6gb but I'm still half a SSD short of what should be there. No similar problems on my 1tb HDD.

I've checked other threads and followed the advice given in those but nothing has fixed it.

Thanks, Lee.

 

[JackNaylorPE]

60 GB on a SSD with a Windows OS on it for any length of time would be shockingly small.

What Does Disk Manager say ? Also the stated capacity of Hds and SSDs is a lie. back in the late 90s, the marketing departments at one of the HD manufacturers decided to redefine a GB as 1,000 MB instead of the normal 1,024 GB definition which had existed since the dawn of computing. As such you can't fit 1,024 MB of files in a "fake GB" that only has 1000 MB in it.

http://www.endmemo.com/data/diskcapacity.php

120 GB advertised = 111.7587 GB of real storage

But again, that's not the problem, my guess is your not counting hidden files, reserved partitions, etc

 

[rgd1101]

http://portableapps.com/apps/utilities/windirstat_portable
use windirstat to see where the space go

 

[SkyNetRising]

going through the files and right clicking the folders though only adds upto around 60-65gb of data, so where is the other 50-55gb I should have ?

Have you configured folder options to show hidden files and protected OS files?
What is size of pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys on your c: drive?

 

[On-A-Downer]

I downloaded windirstat and it says only 74.6gb of space is currently used on C Drive/SSD. In 'my computer' out of 111gb only 8.26gb is available. Looking at the breakdown of where the space is used, 74.6gb looks about right. The Windows folder is 35.5gb and the rest is divided up between my steam folder, users, downloads etc... Which are all around 2-3gb each.

I did a lot of downloading and deleting and downloading again and deleting again of Skyrim and some Skyrim mods recently, but currently the Skyrim folder including all mods only totals 16.9gb

 

[On-A-Downer]

going through the files and right clicking the folders though only adds upto around 60-65gb of data, so where is the other 50-55gb I should have ?

Have you configured folder options to show hidden files and protected OS files?
What is size of pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys on your c: drive?

I looked for those two files using the windows search bar but nothing was found. I don't know how to configure those folder options for showing hidden files.

Thanks for the replies.

 

[On-A-Downer]

I'm using windows 7 if it's relevant.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I don't know how to configure those folder options for showing hidden files.

Control Panel/File Explorer Options/View

 

[On-A-Downer]

Show hidden files and folders is already checked.

'Hide protected operating system files' is also checked but I unchecked it and loaded windirstat again but it shows the same results, 74.6gb is used but in my computer there's still just 8gb remaining.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I'll ask again ..

What is size of pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys on your c: drive?

 

[rgd1101]

did you try windirstat ?

 

[On-A-Downer]

I'll ask again ..

What is size of pagefile.sys and hiberfile.sys on your c: drive?

Found pagefile.sys and it's at 0mb under the amount allocated.

I turned off hibernate mode which has freed up around 3gb but I'm still missing around 30gb. windirstat shows that I'm using 68.7gb but right clicking properties on the SSD under my computer shows I'm using 97.9gb.

 

[On-A-Downer]

did you try windirstat ?

windirstat shows all the files I can find, but not the mystery hidden ones taking up my precious gigs.

 

[On-A-Downer]

Any ideas ?

I've tried all kinds of things.