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Suddenly missing space on SSD. Windows 7.

wedouglas

Junior Member
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've also just tried WinDirStat and the total used, according to it, is 33.8.

33.8 + 75.4 = 109.2

That is still 5.8GB short of the 115GB that should exist.
 
If you surf a lot, you can lose up to 250MB in Temp Internet FIles. If System Restore is active, shadow copies also can grow. So does Page File and Hibernation file. There is quite a bit of overhead in NTFS, i.e., the MFT Reserved Zone. Windows 7 is not a stand pat deal.
 
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