Missing 20GB from my SSD drive (No not page or hib file)

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Hi,

Ever since I have installed Windows 8 on my PC I have noticed the space on my SSD OS drive rapidly vanishing, it has now totally filled up and yet when I check the drive space my right clicking all content and properties it shows as 32.9 GB used on a 60Gb drive (55.5GB real space) Yet the drive has no space left, I am missing over 20Gb of space.

I have removed the Hibernation file and moved the page file off to another drive. I moved the page file because it got full it then somehow filled the 8GB of space I freed within a week, this is without me installing anything to the C: or putting anything on it myself.

I have run WinDirStat and frustratingly it also says I have only used 32.9GB on the C: drive. This is the only partition on the drive.

Please please can someone help me find this 20GB and fix this, it is so frustrating.
 
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Yeah, seems this is probably going to turn out to be a Windows 8 issue, I had no problems until after the upgrade and Ia m currently looking for a larger SSD since I have been unable to make any sense of it.

I find it very odd that even WinDirStat shows only 35GB in use.
 
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what I also find odd is whenever I free any space it is only a matter of days before it eats it up again if not less.

I originally only had 10GB missing and in a month that has increase to 20GB+ as I keep freeing room and it then also vanishing. I have run Spybot and virus checks and unable to find anything.
 
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Annoyingly I can not find where this 17GB of "unknown" is, as unknown simply means WinDirstat knows there should be another 17.6GB but can not find it.

So i am still in the same situation of trying to find out what exactly this big chunk of unknown space is being used for.
 
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Found it..

Got a program called "DriveSniffer" running that as admin found the culrpit.

C:\Windows\System32\config is a whopping 20.7GB and was not accessible to even admin users.

Now why is this folder so huge?
 
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You are telling me I should not question a Config folder that is growing in size everyday and is currently 20GB in size?

Everytime i free space this config folder is eating it within days.

A bigger SSD will not solve that problem.
 
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Also found a bunch of people with same problem all got it after upgrading to Window 8 http://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/w8itprogeneral/thread/6efbf453-aec3-4cfc-b6e0-de9dc5e6a99c/
 
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Solution has apparently been been found and there was a windows update to fix it, which checking my Windows update got installed last night. So seems I should no longer have the problem and it is just a case of deleting all these files.

quote from someone at Microsoft.

Hello,
This should be fixed in this update and may also clean up the files
2795944 Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012 cumulative update: February 2013
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2795944/EN-US
Check if this update is installed
 
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This is what my drive looks like now I have got rid of all that crap. http://img811.imageshack.us/img811/1356/spaceatlast.jpg

Thank god that is over. Will be monitoring that config folder closely from now on, however according to Microsoft the problem is now solved with that update last night, so should not reoccur.

Glad I did not waste money on a new SSD.

Sorry for posting so much but this forum refuses to let me edit my posts.
 
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I used SpaceSniffer too, thanks for the suggestion. Mine turned out to be the Windows search index taking up 70GB of my 120GB SSD drive. Probably because it was indexing my 10TB drive as well. The 70GB index file was at the path "C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\Data\Applications\Windows\Windows.edb". You can change what is indexed and/or where the indexed file is stored by following the information here: http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/change-advanced-indexing-options

The search service has to be restarted before the changes take effect. I just rebooted. After I confirmed that Windows created the "Search" folder in my new index location on a secondary drive, I had to manually delete the original folder to free up space (C:\ProgramData\Microsoft\Search\). I hate messing with Windows operating system files but the space is free now and everything seems to be working great. As always make sure you are properly backed up before messing with operating system files.
 
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