I have just installed a new SSD, and have noticed something weird. When I look at the used space of my drive it says there's a whopping 90 GB of space used, but when I look at all the individual files, even when viewing Hidden Files, i only see 50 GB of data. Is there something that I'm missing, because 90 GB seems like a lot of data for the small amount of things I've installed. Thanks for any help.
SSD "ghost data"?
- Thread starter feriner
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Three things come to mind.....
1. Marketeers cal a GB 1000MB, computers call it 1024 GB, so 90,000 MB is 87.9 GB to a PC and its operating system.
2. Ya storage device needs a place to store it's index of what it put where and that takes up space.
3. You probably have a 4kb cluster size so every file smaller than 4kb still takes up 4kb of space
1. Marketeers cal a GB 1000MB, computers call it 1024 GB, so 90,000 MB is 87.9 GB to a PC and its operating system.
2. Ya storage device needs a place to store it's index of what it put where and that takes up space.
3. You probably have a 4kb cluster size so every file smaller than 4kb still takes up 4kb of space
mcnumpty23
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the lost space--or most of it is due to 16gb of ram
this means you have a huge page file and hyberfil.sys file
lower your page file or turn it off or move it to a second drive if you have one
and delete the hyberfil.sys file--you wont be able to hibernate but can still use sleep
edit--hyberfil.sys
Open a command prompt with administrative privileges.
Enter powercfg.exe -h off
Exit the command prompt.
page file
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/change-the-size-of-virtual-memory
this means you have a huge page file and hyberfil.sys file
lower your page file or turn it off or move it to a second drive if you have one
and delete the hyberfil.sys file--you wont be able to hibernate but can still use sleep
edit--hyberfil.sys
Open a command prompt with administrative privileges.
Enter powercfg.exe -h off
Exit the command prompt.
page file
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows-vista/change-the-size-of-virtual-memory
Brian David
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Just be aware that if you disable Hibernation you will also disable 'Fast startup" and "hybrid sleep". More information can be found here http://blogs.msdn.com/b/b8/archive/2011/09/08/delivering-fast-boot-times-in-windows-8.aspx
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