Hi guys!
Yesterday, I decided to perform a defragment on my older laptop (Windows 8.1 64-bit, HDD of 650GB) as I saw with Defraggler my HDD was 20% fragmented with a free space of 206,2GB (I noted it).
After 30 min, after I clicked ''Defrag'', it still was on 1% so I thought maybe my antivirus was interfering. I stopped the defragmentation, disabled my antivirus and performed a boot time defrag first (don't ask me why, I thought it was smarter to do that first) without turning hibernation off with cmd. After the boot time defrag I shut down my pc and started it up again (As I thought the defragmentation would go faster if I do a restart first). When I started Defraggler again it showed me that I had 199,6GB of free space left and my HDD was 22% fragmented, I thought it would maybe resolve itself after a full defragmentation. It took around 12 hours.
After this I restarted and checked my free storage, it was around 199,3GB (forgot to note the exact number). I read that I had to disable hibernation to defrag pagefile.sys etc. so I did and performed a boot time defrag again. I searched the internet about the 'problem' I have and came across a topic from the Piriform forum, I followed these 'steps' (stop VSS when defragmenting NTFS volume) and performed a defrag again (0% fragmentation but 108 files fragmented). I was looking at the screen and while the defragmenting was going on my free space kept decreasing.
Now, around 9 hours later the defragmentation has finished and I have 193,8 GB of free space left. I already tried deleting the 'shadow copies', but I had none (I will make a restore point after I find out how to fix this 'problem'). I also have restarted my laptop several times and ran CCleaner.
My question is, how can I 'get back' my free space? And why did defragging result in decreasing my free space from 206,2GB to 193,8GB?
I hope that someone can help me with this . Thanks in advance!
Yesterday, I decided to perform a defragment on my older laptop (Windows 8.1 64-bit, HDD of 650GB) as I saw with Defraggler my HDD was 20% fragmented with a free space of 206,2GB (I noted it).
After 30 min, after I clicked ''Defrag'', it still was on 1% so I thought maybe my antivirus was interfering. I stopped the defragmentation, disabled my antivirus and performed a boot time defrag first (don't ask me why, I thought it was smarter to do that first) without turning hibernation off with cmd. After the boot time defrag I shut down my pc and started it up again (As I thought the defragmentation would go faster if I do a restart first). When I started Defraggler again it showed me that I had 199,6GB of free space left and my HDD was 22% fragmented, I thought it would maybe resolve itself after a full defragmentation. It took around 12 hours.
After this I restarted and checked my free storage, it was around 199,3GB (forgot to note the exact number). I read that I had to disable hibernation to defrag pagefile.sys etc. so I did and performed a boot time defrag again. I searched the internet about the 'problem' I have and came across a topic from the Piriform forum, I followed these 'steps' (stop VSS when defragmenting NTFS volume) and performed a defrag again (0% fragmentation but 108 files fragmented). I was looking at the screen and while the defragmenting was going on my free space kept decreasing.
Now, around 9 hours later the defragmentation has finished and I have 193,8 GB of free space left. I already tried deleting the 'shadow copies', but I had none (I will make a restore point after I find out how to fix this 'problem'). I also have restarted my laptop several times and ran CCleaner.
My question is, how can I 'get back' my free space? And why did defragging result in decreasing my free space from 206,2GB to 193,8GB?
I hope that someone can help me with this . Thanks in advance!
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