PC Games Freeze, Cause Hard Drive Space to be lost?

[HydrogenHuman]

Hello everyone. I have had a persistent problem with Windows 7. Sometimes when I play a game, the game will freeze for a brief moment of time (about 2 minutes). When I exit out of the game, I discover that a large chunk of my hard drive is missing space (anywhere from 5 to 10 Gigs).

This problem has been driving me crazy, and I'm hoping someone might know what it is because I only recently discovered the hard drive disappearance.

I've determined it definitely is a hardware issue at this point, if only because I re-installed Windows 7 just a few weeks ago but I'm still getting the problem.

Please, help me if you can!

 

[JackNaylorPE]

Try running CleanUp utility from Steven Gould ... should delete the lost temp files and recover the space

http://www.stevengould.org/index.php

 

[HydrogenHuman]

Tried it, only said there was 133 mb to be cleaned up. Still missing 8 Gigs .