Lost 10Gb off of my boot SSD after external HDD died.

[hoover1979]

My Seagate 2Tb HDD died, taking 1.8Tb of all my data with it, but after a reboot, by boot drive (120Gb Kingston HyperX Fury SSD) dropped from 15Gb to 5Gb.

How do I get this space back?

 

[USAFRet]

My Seagate 2Tb HDD died, taking 1.8Tb of all my data with it, but after a reboot, by boot drive (120Gb Kingston HyperX Fury SSD) dropped from 15Gb to 5Gb.

How do I get this space back?

That depends on what exactly is taking it up.
1. WinDirStat can help visualize this.
2. Where was your pagefile?

 

[hoover1979]

after another reboot my C: drive now dropped down to 60kb free space.

 

[USAFRet]

after another reboot my C: drive now dropped down to 60kb free space.

OK, so what is taking up that space?

 

[hoover1979]

after another reboot my C: drive now dropped down to 60kb free space.

OK, so what is taking up that space?

I ran Spacesniffer (as admin) as WinDirStat did not pick up anything useful. There was a 25Gb hibernate file even though I did not have hibernate enabled on my system, nor have ever had hibernate on my system. I found on another site a script to run in an elevated cmd window as this file is hidden regardless of having explorer set to show hidden folders and files. I instantly got 25Gb back, just like that. Problem solved!

 

[USAFRet]

Yes, the hiberfil.sys is often a big space sucker.
It is on by default, and must be turned off and deleted via the command line.

 

[hoover1979]

Yes, the hiberfil.sys is often a big space sucker.
It is on by default, and must be turned off and deleted via the command line.

After another reboot I went from 25Gb to 39.8Gb free. It's a party in my honor from my PC!