Hard drive fuller than it should be

jeromer · Apr 30, 2015

I have a problem with my hard drive. It is an hdd. It has 140 gigabytes. It says approx 130 gigabytes are full but when I look in the folders it only takes up around 80 gigabytes. I have run a CCleaner and the defragmentation of windows runs every week so I don't know what to do.

Thanks in advance

Jeromer

MarkW · Apr 30, 2015

Believe what the drive is telling you. NTFS allocates sectors as 4k. So even if you create a text file with nothing in it but 1 character, it uses 4k of your drives space. If your file uses 4001 bytes, it needs 2 sectors.. and so on.

Eximo · Apr 30, 2015

Folder Options -> Show hidden files and folders

Most common:
pagefile.sys virtual memory. Low priority data and/or when system memory capacity is exceeded (usually 1.5-2 times system memory)
Hiberfil.sys basically a backup of what is currently in memory for hibernate and sleep modes (usually the size of the system and virtual memory combined)

On OEM computers you can also have hidden partitions used for system recovery (OS reinstallation) (Likely your drive size is actually 160GB with 10GB reserved.)

USAFRet · Apr 30, 2015

jeromer :

Your 'folders' is missing a whole lot of stuff
System Restore points, page file, hibernation...
What OS is this?

jeromer · May 2, 2015

it is windows 7 and it is mostly being used for computing in the cloud.

USAFRet · May 2, 2015

jeromer :

"System Restore points, page file, hibernation..."
This stuff is taking up your space, and not seen when you simply select all the folders.

jeromer · May 2, 2015

and where can I find these? Do I need to keep them or can I delete them as I would like to have the space. Otherwise I just buy an extra drive.
Thanks for the help guys!

USAFRet · May 2, 2015

jeromer :

WinDirStat can help locate this stuff. Running that, you might see two very large 'files'
Page file and hiberfil.sys

Hibernation, you can turn off:
Turn it off here - http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/819-hibernate-enable-disable.html

Pagefile - Reduce it to 1GB or so.

Find your System Restore settings, and see what that is set to.
Control Panel
System
System Protection
System Protection
Click on the relevant drive, and select Configure

It will show you current usage and Max use %

jeromer · May 2, 2015

ah oke Ill try it later this weekend. Thanks a lot. I'll tell you guys if it does not work. Once again thanks a lot!

jeromer · May 9, 2015

i am doing something wrong with the programm i can't find the files?

jeromer · May 29, 2015

thanks for the help guys it worked.

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