Dissapearing space on drive C;

[jump3erlt]

Hello, I have a common thing - dissapearing space, it happend before and happens now. I'd like to know whether its fixable?
I have a 60gb SSD as my main drive C; with all the Windows and program files in it. After a fresh install of W8.1 it had about 25gb free with a game in it. Now it has only 15gb, but I didn't download anything and cleaned all the junk that I dont need. I calculated all the memory used separately on every folder and found that 10GB is somewhere MISSING..
Any ideas?

 

[clarkjd]

Where is your swap file? If it is on your C: drive, then that could be eating up your free space. The swap file grows as needed, but once allocated, it never releases it.





edited for typo.🙁

 

[cosmo77]

How much RAM is in your system?

If you have hibernation enabled it will use up that much hard disk space in ram.
If you have a swap file on your c drive that will vary usually about to double your ram size.

If you have a secondary drive you can move the swap file to it and you can disable hibernation to reclaim the hibernation file space.

 

[jump3erlt]

I currently have 4gb ram.

 

[cosmo77]

I would try moving your page file to a different drive and disabling hibernation. The two of those probably make up about those 10 gigs of space.

 

[jump3erlt]

I would try moving your page file to a different drive and disabling hibernation. The two of those probably make up about those 10 gigs of space.

Where can I find the page file?

 

[D_Know_WD]

Hi there jump3erlt,

You can reduce the space allocated for System Restore and delete previous restore points. Another thing you can do is to run disk clean up and delete temp files.
In case the issue persists, you can use some disk analyzing tool that will show you what is taking up the space.

Here's an extensive tutorial on how to free up some storage space: http://www.howtogeek.com/125923/7-ways-to-free-up-hard-disk-space-on-windows/

Hope this will help,
D_Know_WD

 

[Neur0nauT]

Hello, I have a common thing - dissapearing space, it happend before and happens now. I'd like to know whether its fixable?
I have a 60gb SSD as my main drive C; with all the Windows and program files in it. After a fresh install of W8.1 it had about 25gb free with a game in it. Now it has only 15gb, but I didn't download anything and cleaned all the junk that I dont need. I calculated all the memory used separately on every folder and found that 10GB is somewhere MISSING..
Any ideas?

Download a little free utillity called Treesize. It will scan your hard drive(s) and show what and where your space is being used. This might help you pinpoint what you can clear out or move to a different drive. I would say that a 60gb SSD is a minimum size for an OS drive. I use a 128gb for the OS with at least one game on there. The rest go onto my 1tb SSHD.

 

[jump3erlt]

I scanned drive C; with Treesize and I found a pagefile.sys and it's only using up 0.7GB, but theres another file called hiberfil.sys and it is using 3GB, what does that file mean?

 

[Neur0nauT]

I scanned drive C; with Treesize and I found a pagefile.sys and it's only using up 0.7GB, but theres another file called hiberfil.sys and it is using 3GB, what does that file mean?

"hiberfile.sys" is the cached data for when your system is placed into hibernation mode. You can find out more HERE