Hard Drive keeps losing space?!

Gamefreak924 · Sep 9, 2016

I started out with an 80GB hard drive I took out of an old computer that I started using for one I built. It came with a couple of things on it with Windows 7 64-bit. I then decided to also put Linux on it. I gave the Linux OS about 20-30GB max to work with out of the 80GB. However over time randomly out of the blue, I found that the max disk space (combined free and used) dropped to 28GB. I just turned it on one day and I had almost no space left and saw the free space I had to work with was gone. I'm 99% sure I don't have any viruses or anything. I have programs to check for that. I just don't understand it. I have 3 drives installed (installed third one today) on my PC. The main drive (80GB one) only has a few things on it other than the OSs. So where did all the space go?

USAFRet · Sep 9, 2016

Also, Restore Points. That can silently suck up your space.

Gamefreak924 · Sep 10, 2016

GamerBoy357 :

I got everything down, but what do I edit for each partition? "No paging file"?
C and G are on None for the Paging File Size. D is on System Managed. Maybe because I took the drive from my old laptop to use? No OS on it though, I think. What do I do? :/

Gamefreak924 · Sep 11, 2016

GamerBoy357 :

Gamefreak924 :

yeah set every partition to "no paging file", but beware, its best to leave these settings untouched. these page files are used as temporary RAM when your computer runs out of free RAM space.
also delete the system restore points and change the amount of disk space used for system protection, check out this link:
http://www.thewindowsclub.com/how-to-delete-all-system-restore-points-and-previous-versions-of-files-in-windows-7

Seemed like it would work... No difference...

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