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

[Ketchup]

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.

Yeah, a lot of posters in Computer Help just fade off the face of the net.

 

[Meghan54]

Yeah, a lot of posters in Computer Help just fade off the face of the net.

I don't know which is more irritating, what you describe or the opposite, like westom.

 

[Ketchup]

I don't know which is more irritating, what you describe or the opposite, like westom.

Oh don't get me started, lol. I'll just say I usually end up with a headache trying to read one of his novels (some call them posts).

This is a perfect time to determine is fans and other hardware are operating properly. A room at 100 degrees F is a perfectly normal temperature for computer hardware. Temperature is a superb diagnostic tool to locate defective hardware. A computer that fails in a 100 degree room probably has defects today that will result in failures months or even years later. Operating computer hardware at even higher temperatures does not damage any hardware. But heat causes temporary timing and threshold changes that identify hardware defects and that disappear when temperature drops.

A 100+ degree room is not harmful to any computer hardware. And identified defective hardware. Heat is a superb diagnostic tool.

 

[runzwithsizorz]

Gentlemen, if it means anything at all, I learned a couple of things just lurking this thread. Your efforts are not wasted. Thankz for doing,-----
a thankless job.

 

[BirdDad]

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.

I am sorry for wasting every body's time, the reason I don't use the tools suggested is that I am using a different drive now.

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Sorry BirdDad. If you don't actually fix the problem, this is what happens:

 

[Coup27]

I am sorry for wasting every body's time, the reason I don't use the tools suggested is that I am using a different drive now.

Sorry BirdDad. If you don't actually fix the problem, this is what happens:

Brilliant!

 

[amenx]

Someone else in another forum just had this problem and found it was an 80gb windows.edb file which was part of the search indexer.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4639623&postcount=300

p.s. having 64gb of ram will not create a massive pagefile (x 1.5 of ram). The more ram you have, the less need for paging, so the pagefile "should" get smaller. Even Microsoft at one point was dumb (Win 95-98 days) enough to suggest x 1.5 ram as PF size which I guess contributed to this silly myth.

 

[RadiclDreamer]

http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview//

Best directory visual representation ive found, even does color coding if you so desire. Helps to find those large files and directories very quickly

 

[Mushkins]

Someone else in another forum just had this problem and found it was an 80gb windows.edb file which was part of the search indexer.

http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4639623&postcount=300

p.s. having 64gb of ram will not create a massive pagefile (x 1.5 of ram). The more ram you have, the less need for paging, so the pagefile "should" get smaller. Even Microsoft at one point was dumb (Win 95-98 days) enough to suggest x 1.5 ram as PF size which I guess contributed to this silly myth.

Maybe they meant hiberfil.sys? The file used for hibernation? That thing does scale with ram size last I checked since it's gotta dump any and all data from ram into temporary nonvolatile storage.

 

[mikeymikec]

p.s. having 64gb of ram will not create a massive pagefile (x 1.5 of ram). The more ram you have, the less need for paging, so the pagefile "should" get smaller. Even Microsoft at one point was dumb (Win 95-98 days) enough to suggest x 1.5 ram as PF size which I guess contributed to this silly myth.

I have 4GB RAM and the 'system managed' pagefile on mine is approximately 4GB. I don't do anything that might require 4GB of swap!