Being that this laptop is new and has a relatively small SSD at 128GB, I tend to pay attention to space. I also just did a clean Windows 7 install and have very little installed on it so far.
I just looked at My Computer and saw that C had 75.4GB/115GB free. This strikes me as odd because I could of swore it was at like 95GB just recently. I'm downloading a 9GB torrent and I figure that could have lowered i somewhat and not realized it, but that would have only brought it into the mid-80's.
So, curious as to what I may have copied over or installed that suddenly ate up a lot of space, I started looking at properties of major folders and seeing which were big and how big they were.
Not seeing anything strange, I went into C:\, enabled show hidden, selected all, and clicked properties. Size on disk was 27.8GB.
27.8GB + 75.4GB = 103.2GB
WTF? Windows says my drive is 115GB. Why is my free space and used space adding up to 12GB less?
I tried powercfg -h off and that only yielded an additional 3GB or so. Where is this phantom 10GB? Any ideas?
I just looked at My Computer and saw that C had 75.4GB/115GB free. This strikes me as odd because I could of swore it was at like 95GB just recently. I'm downloading a 9GB torrent and I figure that could have lowered i somewhat and not realized it, but that would have only brought it into the mid-80's.
So, curious as to what I may have copied over or installed that suddenly ate up a lot of space, I started looking at properties of major folders and seeing which were big and how big they were.
Not seeing anything strange, I went into C:\, enabled show hidden, selected all, and clicked properties. Size on disk was 27.8GB.
27.8GB + 75.4GB = 103.2GB
WTF? Windows says my drive is 115GB. Why is my free space and used space adding up to 12GB less?
I tried powercfg -h off and that only yielded an additional 3GB or so. Where is this phantom 10GB? Any ideas?
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