My C drive, which is a SSD (111GB), suddenly became full with only 4GB free space left. Should have 38GB of free space.

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My C drive, which is a SSD (111GB), suddenly became full with only 4GB free space left. It only runs my windows 10. Before I had around 20+GB of free space. I've been on "My Computer" and deleted all restore points, however I didn't have any in the first place. I've also run disk run which didn't clean much up, I've been through my temp files and deleted them , run CCleaner and Windows 10 update is turned off so it shouldn't be downloading extra files.

When I open the C drive and select all the folders, I have view all hidden files ticked, the total space they amount to is 73GB, which should leave me with 38GB left of free space not 4GB.

Does anyone have any idea where this missing 34GB is?
 
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Did you change out your RAM / increase RAM recently? That can eat up C drive space with taking up the same amount of space for those additional sticks/space. It can be deleted if you have (can't remember the tutorial name but a bit of googling never hurts).
Same principle with increasing gpus.

Also, check your recycle bin is emptied. Downloads folder is in order (can be a surprise for some). Move off this drive any data that isn't particularly essential. Grab your photos and dump them on a cloud account to make room, etc.

Best solution is when you can, grab a larger ssd, migrate over and offset its cost with this 111gb one (or keep as an additional).

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Did you change out your RAM / increase RAM recently? That can eat up C drive space with taking up the same amount of space for those additional sticks/space. It can be deleted if you have (can't remember the tutorial name but a bit of googling never hurts).
Same principle with increasing gpus.

Also, check your recycle bin is emptied. Downloads folder is in order (can be a surprise for some). Move off this drive any data that isn't particularly essential. Grab your photos and dump them on a cloud account to make room, etc.

Best solution is when you can, grab a larger ssd, migrate over and offset its cost with this 111gb one (or keep as an additional).

 
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could be a windows.old folder though they normally not that big. Usually 17gb but I wonder, 34gb is twice that, but it shouldn't have 2 on there?

Could rundisk cleanup to get rid of it http://www.howtogeek.com/223821/what-is-the-windows.old-folder-and-how-do-you-delete-it/
 
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True, but I am getting along fine with a 74.5 GB OS drive on my main computer (Windows 8). I just make sure to keep it lean and clean. I have 40.8 GB used, and that includes a backup of my phone and 2 Windows 8 ISO files (32 and 64 bit versions), which I could move to my storage drive if need be.
 
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Can it work? Sure, if you are diligent about what goes where.

But the number of people I've seen here in the last year, complaining about their 120GB drive (or worse, even smaller ones) running out of space...
If I had a nickel for each one...I'd have a big ol pile of nickels.
 
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