What happened to all of my space?

_s0ap · Oct 18, 2013

Just bought a laptop, an MSI GS70, with a 250 SSD and a 750 HDD. I've only had this about a month, and slowly, I'm moving more and more files over from my desktop, to my laptop, but I keep my SSD clean, only with 2 games (Skyrim and Dead Space 3), and my school work. That should be about 20-30 gigabytes maximum. But through what I see, my SSD has filled up, and as of a few moments ago, completely. I have all of my downloads going into my HDD.

What's taking all of my space??! I dont have much on the SSD. Is it restore files? Something?

nukemaster · Oct 18, 2013

Shadow copies / system restore / page file / Hibernation file if you have not disabled and removed the file.

Winodws 8 even has some other files that eat space if you happen to be on Win8

To remove Hibernation you should be able to use the command prompt with powercfg -h off

You can adjust the page file to a fixed smaller size if you want as well. I do not recommend fully removing it.

Setting the system protection space to a smaller value will reduce the amount of space restore points and whatnot take.

_s0ap · Oct 18, 2013

nukemaster :

I can't seem to find this hibernation file. I removed a restore file for my (C

drive but i only cleared up about 4 GB

nukemaster · Oct 18, 2013

Try this.
http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/3152

I remember Windows 8 taking an extra 16gigabytes because of this.

If you tell Windows Explorer to show hidden and system files, you should be able to see if the hiberfile.sys goes away. if not, try the powercfg after disabling fast boot(with an ssd, you do not need it anyway.).

commissarmo · Oct 20, 2013

Windows unfortunately isn't very rich in terms of system monitoring utilities. Luckily there are many 3rd party software applications that let you study/map your hard drives. You can search for others of course, but I use/recommend WinDirStat.

http://windirstat.info/

_s0ap · Oct 20, 2013

nukemaster :

I disabled it, but what's it supposed to do? Is space now cleared up?

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