HD disk space missing in Windows 7

[YanKleber]

I have Windows 7 Pro installed on my system. If I right click the C: and ask for properties it says 45GB used. If I select all the stuff existing in the drive C: (including hidden files and folders) and ask for properties it says a total of 33GB used.

My Windows 7 has the paging file size set to a bit less than 4GB. Even if those 4GB wasn't included in the 33GB above I still would have 8GB missing. Any idea?

 

[WilliamM2]

More than likely, System Protection. Even if you turn it off, you have to go into the configuration, and delete all previous restore points.

 

[fabler]

System restore and hibernation is usually the biggest space eaters. If you don't use hibernation then you can disable it. Open CMD with Admin rights and type powercfg.exe -h off .

Opposite is powercfg.exe -h on .

 

[YanKleber]

I already disabled the hibernation so now I will check the System Protection. Thanks all for the tips.

 

[YanKleber]

Cool,it was the stupid restore point stuff. After to disable it and delete the existing ones all of my disk space is back.

Thanks!!!!!!

 

[fabler]

Have you run chkdsk recently. Search file explorer for a folder called " found. 000". Delete it except when it mentions system files then skip all similar files. Reboot.

 

[fabler]

YanKleber, glad you've sorted it.