[SOLVED] Disk space...

[woofwoofbark]

I have an ssd 250gb.. windows reads it as 232gb..
Anyway...
I only have 57gb free, too many games installed..

But, im not very technical but I'll assk..
I right clicked all the folders on the drive and they total 93.9GB..
If the size if the disk is 232gb and there 57.1gb free..

The total doesnt add up ?
57.1gb plus 93.9gb =151gb ..

Where is the other 81gb ?

I hope this makes sense and if anyone has any ideas I'd like to hear...
thanks.

 

[Deleted member 14196]

Windows updates take a lot of space for one thing

 

[kol12]

Download a program called WinDirStat. That will show everything that is using space accurately.

 

[McKeu]

Right-Click on the disk in the Windows explorer, choose properties, then Disk cleanup and then "Clean up system files".
This will delete all Update related dead weight, as well as some Windows backup files you won't need. You can easily gain several 10 Gigs from that, if you are lucky with the upgrade files and related logs.

 

[SkyNetRising]

I have an ssd 250gb.. windows reads it as 232gb..

Simple math.
When manufacturers specify drive capacity 250GB, they actually mean 250'000'000'000 bytes.
1GB is not 1'000'000'000 bytes but 1'073'741'824 bytes (1* 1024 * 1024 * 1024).
That's why you get this difference.

250'000'000'000/1024/1024/1024=232.83

 

[woofwoofbark]

I asked someplace else too and downloaded a prgram from windows store called Treesize free..
I found 10gb of cache from acestream and also State of Decay 2, this game doesnt showunder program files...

I deleted the game and the cache and Im now at 104gb free..

One thing I noticed is that right clicking Windows it shows as 3.45gb but treesize read it as 23gb...
So 20gb of windows files are hidden ?

 

[McKeu]

I asked someplace else too and downloaded a prgram from windows store called Treesize free..
I found 10gb of cache from acestream and also State of Decay 2, this game doesnt showunder program files...

I deleted the game and the cache and Im now at 104gb free..

One thing I noticed is that right clicking Windows it shows as 3.45gb but treesize read it as 23gb...
So 20gb of windows files are hidden ?

Those 20 GB can easily be update related logs and dead weight. Try clean system files from the disk cleanup options and see how much they occupy.

 

[woofwoofbark]

disk cleanup has a total of around 50MB to clean, but only 1 folder was ticked..
Thumbnails 11.0 MB

 

[woofwoofbark]

Treesize saved me around 45gb I went from 57 to 1004 free

kol12 mentioned WinDirStat , is that essentially the same program , or more detailed ?

 

[McKeu]

disk cleanup has a total of around 50MB to clean, but only 1 folder was ticked..
Thumbnails 11.0 MB

DIsk cleanup or really "CLean up system files"? It is a sub-option under disk cleanup.

 

[woofwoofbark]

DIsk cleanup or really "CLean up system files"? It is a sub-option under disk cleanup.

Ah, I didnt see that, thanks..

Now there are more files to delete....

Windows Update cleanup 6.40GB
Windows Update Logfiles 183 MB

These are safe to delete ?
That would be another almost 7GB more free space..

 

[McKeu]

Ah, I didnt see that, thanks..

Now there are more files to delete....

Windows Update cleanup 6.40GB
Windows Update Logfiles 183 MB

These are safe to delete ?
That would be another almost 7GB more free space..

Yes, those are safe to remove. Unless you are in the middle of a windows update or last update failed.

 

[woofwoofbark]

Its taking some time to delete these files....

 

[McKeu]

Its taking some time to delete these files....

Yeah, it is tedious. You can cancel along the way, if you feel like it and still have quite an amount of free space after, without harming your PC.

 

[woofwoofbark]

Ive gone from 57.1 free space to 108GB.. thanks for all your help.