still losing storage space

Razake · May 13, 2014

Hello,
I'm running Windows 7. I noticed I keep losing storage space. Not just a little either. My computer was idle over night and viola i'm missing 16gb on my drive. I've run windirstat but can never seem to pin point the change exactly. I don't know if in missing something but windirstat will tell me something had been modified a day ahead of time... Windows didn't update last night. I did disk clean up removed a bunch. Uninstalled a bunch of unneeded things. I made sure kaspersky traces were off and got rid of the 110gb those logs took up. I've run CCcleaner. I've scanned with malwarebytes and kaspersly. Upon running chkdsk /f /r no bad files but 4kb in bad sectors. After the chkdsk it stopped losing space until I turned it off. When I turned it back on is when it started up again. I haven't run any weird or new programs. Could it just be the hard drive going and bad sectors are making other portions unusable? If someone could help if be grateful.

scout_03 · May 13, 2014

do you have any software on that will made auto back up even the os one .

Hawkeye22 · May 13, 2014

Possibly your restore points. Run disk cleanup. It has an option to delete all but the last restore point. You can then go into the restore point settings and allocate it less drive space. I beleive the default is 12% which can be quite a bit on a large drive.

popatim · May 13, 2014

use a utility such as smartmontools to check the HDD's smart and look at the number of reallocated and unrecoverable sectors.

Razake · May 14, 2014

Hawkeye22 :

I've already run disk clean up and deleted all but last restore point. I have no shadow copies left around either. I've lost another 10GB of space.

@scout_03 - I don't have any back ups set up not even for windows. I've never set up a back up for anything else and literally had only kaspersky running over night with the other windows basics and still no answer as to whats eating up space.

@popatim - Do i need to find this utility on the web somewhere? I understand what you're telling me to look at just not sure where to find/get the program.

I've uninstalled almost all my games except for the ones i still play. I only seem to 'lose' the space when my computer is idle not the entire day i'm using it.

I've also noticed that when i start up my computer i can have everything but power disconnected and it still makes the alert as if i had plugged something in to usb. I've checked my start up programs/services nothing unusual. No unusal processes... Only weird thing i ever noticed was when i run google chrome it uses like 8 difference processes by itself but apparently this is normal for the extensions i have?

I've even tried uninstalling anything i've recently installed. I cleaned out my drive of most of the stuff i don't need at this point so i can just do a back up of what i want to keep. Went from 326GB free to 317GB free this morning. Previously i was only losing around 4 - 6 gb of space over 5 hours. I'm concerned T_T

Razake · May 14, 2014

Hey guys~ just an update i ran spacesniffer and finally noticed something different. Something hugely different.

{e8343daa-dabb-11e3-ae7e-00266c4a53ba}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} system volume information file created yesterday and it's grown to 9.2gb of space.

Is this a new restore point? If it is should i just disable restore points because that is a massive file...

I know my computer ran a defrag last night but i don't think it would cause that... but it seems to alot for some the missing space... at least from last night but not before that

Anyone have any idea wtf is going on?

scout_03 · May 14, 2014

your restore must be at max value of your drive 12 % so lower it dowm to 3 or 4 % and do a cleaning using glary utilities and ccleaner one a while that will help.

Hawkeye22 · May 14, 2014

It may possibly be a glitch in the restore point system. I had something similar happen recently. Disabling restore points will delete all restore points, so you can try disabling restore points, then enable them again to see if it corrects the problem. Also, like I said previously, you may want to lower the percentage of disk space restore points use up.

Razake · May 14, 2014

My max usage is 10.00gb and it is set to 2% but it literally says it's taking up 10.14gb atm I just disabled it completely and re-enabled it and set it to 1%. I guess we will see what happens? Maybe a glitch? I'd still like to find that utility to show bad sectors.

Also when i went to system protection settings my normal hard drive comes up and then there is a folder that shows up called System. I have no idea if that is normal. Either way restores for that was off by default.

scout_03 · May 14, 2014

this folder must be system volume information this is the restore files on the hdd you could test your drive using the maker tool for it .

Razake · May 14, 2014

So when i'm staring at my drive in computer management.... i have my regular healthy active recovery partition 1.46gb - then i have my primary C: NTFS parition 453gb. I have no idea what this third parition is it doesn't say all it says is it's basic - Healthy (primary partition) and it's for 10.41Gb. Is there some way for me to figure out what this is for or when it was made?

Hawkeye22 · May 15, 2014

If you assign that partition a drive letter, it will show up normally in the file explorer and you should be able to see it's contents. If it's actually needed by the system, you can always remove the drive letter and hide the partition again.

Razake · May 15, 2014

Hawkeye22 :

Won't allow me to assign it a letter but i talked to a friend who has almost the same computer and he's got the same thing on his drive so i think it may be normal... looking at it again it doesnt seem like anything is on it. So far i haven't had any data loss since i disabled and re-enabled system restore points and lowered the setting to 1% (4.54gb) allowance so we will see.

Thanks for all the help guys

scout_03 · May 15, 2014

you could raise it to 3 % .

Razake · May 16, 2014

it was at 2% and allowing 10GB 3% would be even more than that i think..

scout_03 · May 17, 2014

keep it at 2% .

Bluex · May 22, 2014

Razake :

I think you hard drive is dying!

Get HDsentials @ http://www.hdsentinel.com/ I use it and it tells me all I want to know about my hard drive. I recommend Western Digital hard drives and clonezilla to clone you old HD to your new one.
Before you go and get a new one check the disk by opening the start menu and right clicking on computer, then click manage after that click storage. It will show you all the info about your disk.
Hope this helps

-Josh

Bluex · May 22, 2014

Razake :

Hey guys~ just an update i ran spacesniffer and finally noticed something different. Something hugely different.

{e8343daa-dabb-11e3-ae7e-00266c4a53ba}{3808876b-c176-4e48-b7ae-04046e6cc752} system volume information file created yesterday and it's grown to 9.2gb of space.

Is this a new restore point? If it is should i just disable restore points because that is a massive file...

I know my computer ran a defrag last night but i don't think it would cause that... but it seems to alot for some the missing space... at least from last night but not before that

Anyone have any idea wtf is going on?

I just deleted that.

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