why when I install W7 does my 256GB SSD report only 119GBs space left

[BirdDad]

clean install delete partitions and install fresh. no swapfile.
no updates.
I even tried partitioning in linux then switch back to windows.
Same thing.
Any body know what is going on? The drive is a vertex 4

 

[hot120]

Hibernation on?

 

[mikeymikec]

Hibernation on?

The OP would have to have a heck of a lot of RAM

OP - Does Windows acknowledge the drive to have the capacity that you believe it has? How does it look in Disk Management?

 

[BirdDad]

hibernation is not on
I have 64GBs of RAM

 

[dave_the_nerd]

hibernation is not on
I have 64GBs of RAM

<hyneman>Well there's your problem.</hyneman>

http://www.tweakhound.com/windows7/tweaking/7.html

Page file size... In Windows 7 and Server 2008 R2 the default size is equal to the amount of memory installed in the machine.

So you've got a 256GB SSD with a formatted capacity of ~ 232GB. 64GB for swap file, and you're down to 168 before you've even installed an OS.

49GB for a Win7 install is actually pretty good. After a couple big Windows updates, I discovered that system restore points alone were taking up 20GB of storage space on my 90GB SSD.

 

[mikeymikec]

He already said that he had switched off the swap file.

OP, when you said that hibernation is not on, have you checked that hybrid sleep is disabled (I wouldn't recommend disabling it, but it would explain a large amount of the discrepancy)?

My three year old Win7-64 partition is only 36.5GB (my apps and data are on another partition). About half a gig of that is my AppData folder I think.

System restore points use a percentage of the partition's capacity (10% I think by default).

It would have been helpful if the OP had answered my other questions.

 

[Ketchup]

If you look at Disk Management in Computer Management, does it show your partition is using the whole drive?

 

[KingFatty]

Get a utility that visually shows you how much space is in the various folders.

Then you'll just easily look for the ginormous folder to see where all the space is being taken.

But right now, you are searching for something in a dark room. This utility will turn on the light so you may see my son...

 

[sequoia464]

so you may see my son...

I always thought it was grasshopper or padawan??

In any event, TreeSize offers a free utility for this. Maybe not the best but it has proven useful to me several times... http://www.jam-software.com/treesize_free/

 

[KingFatty]

I said let there be light...

 

[Tsavo]

windirstat is handy for seeing what's taking up what on an SSD.

 

[MontyAC]

windirstat is handy for seeing what's taking up what on an SSD.

Run it and see what you have on the SSD.

http://windirstat.info/download.html

 

[sequoia464]

windirstat is handy for seeing what's taking up what on an SSD.

Thanks, much better than treesize - especially the free version.

 

[KentState]

I've always used Space Monger. Not sure if it can still be found.

 

[Puffnstuff]

Has the op even looked at windows disk manager to see what it reports?

 

[Minerva]

I use spacesniffer here

http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/download.html

Nice GUI representation of what's eating disk space.

 

[corkyg]

NTFS overhead, eg., MFT Zone? Shadow Copies? OCZ utilieis?

 

[dighn]

check shadow storage: http://academic2.american.edu/~jpnolan/Misc/WindowsDiskProblem.html

 

[BirdDad]

Never mind, I switched to a 128GB SSD and things are going great

 

[Coup27]

I'm sorry but people like you really get me going. You have come to a technical forum to seek assistance or a solution to a problem you're having. People have been good enough to give up their time and help you with your problem and you've not done any of the requests made or posted screenshots of any of the utilities you were asked to run.

You've then just stuck in a different drive and carried on blissfully ignorant of the actual problem so you have learned nothing from this should you ever have a similar issue in the future.

What a waste of everybody's time.

 

[corkyg]

. . . What a waste of every bodies time.

It's not that bad - as i see it we all benefit from the exchange. The old saying is true . . you can lead a horse to water, but . . .

Cheers!

 

[Ketchup]

I'm sorry but people like you really get me going. You have come to a technical forum to seek assistance or a solution to a problem you're having. People have been good enough to give up their time and help you with your problem and you've not done any of the requests made or posted screenshots for any of the utilities you were asked to run.

You've then just stuck in a different drive and carried on blissfully ignorant of the actual problem, so you have benefited nothing from this should you ever have a similar issue in the future.

What a waste of every bodies time.

Eh, 40 replies in the thread "Looking to downgrade from i920 (lower power usage)" and no word from the OP yet. I am expecting a similar response. That's why I usually only post once per OP post, but there are exceptions.

It's the internet. It happens.

 

[mikeymikec]

It's the internet. It happens.

I think I've done it before as well I try not to though and keep the thread updated with my progress.

 

[Coup27]

Eh, 40 replies in the thread "Looking to downgrade from i920 (lower power usage)" and no word from the OP yet. I am expecting a similar response. That's why I usually only post once per OP post, but there are exceptions.

It's the internet. It happens.

lol. Spent nearly an hour the other week making two posts providing the OP with some screenshots taken from a similar system I had access to along with some technical information and then the OP dropped the thread. Another user within the thread even bumped it asking how it went and nothing. I've seen the user online twice since then and you just think "yeah, thanks for that".

 

[dighn]

hey at least the OP reported back with a solution (well, kind of a solution anyway). a lot of people wouldn't have bothered with that.