Every time I check how much space is left on my C drive, it seems to have haemorrhaged a little more free space. This is in spite of running CCleaner regularly, making sure it's not got excessive fragmentation, etc. I try to keep it as spartan as possible. I've looked for solutions all over and have done everything I can find to get that free space back, and yet it stills seems to leak away.
Not only that, but when I compare the size of the files on the disk, to how much room they are apparently taking up, the results don't add up... literally.
Using WinDirStat to look at the files on the C drive, it says that they take up approximately 100GB. But the drive (a 200GB partition) shows that over 190GB of space is being taken up.
Can anyone help me find where all the lost space is going and help me clean up my drive?
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UPDATE:
Opening up the Disk Management and right clicking the drive and looking at the properties from there seems to have "refreshed" the disk usage and now it's back down to where it should be. I don't have an explanation for why that happened though. Very strange.
Not only that, but when I compare the size of the files on the disk, to how much room they are apparently taking up, the results don't add up... literally.
Using WinDirStat to look at the files on the C drive, it says that they take up approximately 100GB. But the drive (a 200GB partition) shows that over 190GB of space is being taken up.
Can anyone help me find where all the lost space is going and help me clean up my drive?
Screenshot:
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UPDATE:
Opening up the Disk Management and right clicking the drive and looking at the properties from there seems to have "refreshed" the disk usage and now it's back down to where it should be. I don't have an explanation for why that happened though. Very strange.