[SOLVED] NVME drive has unknown space unaccounted for

[barkersofgeraldine]

My NVME drive has 250gb of space, and has 232gb of useable space

ALL my apps (games and programs) come to a total of 75 gb, which leaves me with 156gb of space left

At the moment, I have 100 gb free space to use, so 156gb minus 100 gb of free space, means that the difference represents OS + other updates, which come to a total of 56 gb of space

I cannot think of ANYTHING that is that size (56 GB). A quick google search tells me that WINDOWS 10 (my OS) is no bigger than 15 in size..

Can someone tell me what could possible be 56 in size?

Notes about my PC:


I have deleted all restore points + updates

 

[Unolocogringo]

Do you have sleep or hibernate enabled?
If so that can be 15-20 gig of space. Hiberfil.sys on the windows drive.
You also have a driver cache folder, Shader cache folder, software distribution folder.
To see what is really on it download windirstat.

WinDirStat

Windows Directory Statistics

windirstat.net

download and install.
Go to file explorer options in control panel.
Click on view tab.
Select "Show hidden files, folders and drives.
Close explorer options window.
Run Windirstat.
It will show you everything on your hard drive.

 

[SkyNetRising]

Pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys - can easily take that space.

 

[barkersofgeraldine]

Pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys - can easily take that space.

hi, yeah, i have a pagefile.sys that is 10gb of space! thank you!

any other ideas what that 40gb could be? or 25 rather, since 15gb is because of windows 10

 

[CountMike]

My NVME drive has 250gb of space, and has 232gb of useable space

ALL my apps (games and programs) come to a total of 75 gb, which leaves me with 156gb of space left

At the moment, I have 100 gb free space to use, so 156gb minus 100 gb of free space, means that the difference represents OS + other updates, which come to a total of 56 gb of space

I cannot think of ANYTHING that is that size (56 GB). A quick google search tells me that WINDOWS 10 (my OS) is no bigger than 15 in size..

Can someone tell me what could possible be 56 in size?

Notes about my PC:


I have deleted all restore points + updates

Check your Disk Manager for other partitions, if Windows are installed on it will have several partitions tottaling up to 2GB or more if there's Over-provisioning partition typically about 10% of whole disk capacity.
There's another thing, manufacturers state disk capacity when it's not formatted. If formatted to NTFS for instance, 250GB will have total of 238GB of usable space.