Hello everybody
Yesterday my SSD had only 10.7 GB left, I recently updated my Windows 10 and after this update things went kinda odd.
First things first. I have a Samsung SSD with 128 GB and showing in the Windows Explorer 111 GB. That's perfectly normal. It's GB versus GiB and some small amount for the FAT.
When I saw I only had 10.7 GB left. I decided to clean up my device. I still had a Windows.old folder about 25 GB and I had old footage from gaming for about 21 GB.
I deleted both. The Windows.old folder I used the Disk Cleanup function for. I have been googling, before I ran out of ideas and came here.
When I deleted a total amount of 46 GB data, I noticed that it went from 10.7 GB left to 28.1 GB left. The system only tracked '17GB' of data. That's the moment I realised I might have a worm eating up my space. I ran Windows Defender scan on the SSD and I did the same with Avast. No culprits found.
Then I tried using the WinDirStat software and ran it as an admin. That tool says I only have 88,4 GB on my entire SSD. By all means a 128 GB SSD dropping to a 88,4 GiB is mathematically impossible.
Just like the 46 GB of data removal is in no way 17 GiB.
I then deleted my Virtual Memory which was 8 GB. The amount shown on Windows Explorer remains the same.
I re-allocated the Windows Indexing DIR standard on C:\Windows\Microsoft folder to a separate HDD (D:\ Drive)
My SSD has never been formatted, never been splitted into partitions. And it's been serving me well for quite some years now.
With all my google searching I still am stuck. I have literally no idea what's causing this issue. All the things described on posts I actually tried and none of them in fact worked.
Summary:
- 128 GB SSD showing 88,4 Available on WinDirStat (run as Admin)
- Deleting a pool of 46 GB Data is only freeing 17 GB Disk space
- Re-allocated the Windows Indexing DIR
- Deleted a total of 8192 MB of Virtual Memory (result: no Disk Space got free'd)
- Ran a Windows Defender & Avast scan for potential Wurms and other culprits (none found)
Any help is appreciated. And ofcourse I'm actively trying to fix this.
Thanks and with most kind regards
Dofty
Yesterday my SSD had only 10.7 GB left, I recently updated my Windows 10 and after this update things went kinda odd.
First things first. I have a Samsung SSD with 128 GB and showing in the Windows Explorer 111 GB. That's perfectly normal. It's GB versus GiB and some small amount for the FAT.
When I saw I only had 10.7 GB left. I decided to clean up my device. I still had a Windows.old folder about 25 GB and I had old footage from gaming for about 21 GB.
I deleted both. The Windows.old folder I used the Disk Cleanup function for. I have been googling, before I ran out of ideas and came here.
When I deleted a total amount of 46 GB data, I noticed that it went from 10.7 GB left to 28.1 GB left. The system only tracked '17GB' of data. That's the moment I realised I might have a worm eating up my space. I ran Windows Defender scan on the SSD and I did the same with Avast. No culprits found.
Then I tried using the WinDirStat software and ran it as an admin. That tool says I only have 88,4 GB on my entire SSD. By all means a 128 GB SSD dropping to a 88,4 GiB is mathematically impossible.
Just like the 46 GB of data removal is in no way 17 GiB.
I then deleted my Virtual Memory which was 8 GB. The amount shown on Windows Explorer remains the same.
I re-allocated the Windows Indexing DIR standard on C:\Windows\Microsoft folder to a separate HDD (D:\ Drive)
My SSD has never been formatted, never been splitted into partitions. And it's been serving me well for quite some years now.
With all my google searching I still am stuck. I have literally no idea what's causing this issue. All the things described on posts I actually tried and none of them in fact worked.
Summary:
- 128 GB SSD showing 88,4 Available on WinDirStat (run as Admin)
- Deleting a pool of 46 GB Data is only freeing 17 GB Disk space
- Re-allocated the Windows Indexing DIR
- Deleted a total of 8192 MB of Virtual Memory (result: no Disk Space got free'd)
- Ran a Windows Defender & Avast scan for potential Wurms and other culprits (none found)
Any help is appreciated. And ofcourse I'm actively trying to fix this.
Thanks and with most kind regards
Dofty
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