SSD Used/Unused capacity

A_Tom

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I have a 60gb drive which shows to have only 22gb of unused capacity. If I add up the size of all of the folders under this drive, I get about 25gb, which should leave 35gb unused, more or less. How can I figure out what is using the extra capacity and is there some way I can free it up? I've emptied the recycle bin.
 

voyagerfan99

Master of Turning Things Off and Back On Again
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Download and run WinDirStat to see what is taking up space on the drive. Also keep in mind the way NTFS behaves you won't see a full 60GB drive - more along the lines of 55GB or so.

https://windirstat.info/
 

Geoff

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I suppose that windows explorer disk usage does not reflect hidden files, so I suppose not. I'll do more checking.
Taking into account the file size difference when formatting the drive, you only have ~8GB unaccounted for.
 

A_Tom

Member
Download and run WinDirStat to see what is taking up space on the drive. Also keep in mind the way NTFS behaves you won't see a full 60GB drive - more along the lines of 55GB or so.

https://windirstat.info/

Did that, thanks. It's mostly in 2 files: pagefiles and what I take to be a hibernate file. The pagefile space is obviously necessary, but I'm not sure about the hibernate, since I never use that.

Did this: (from cmd window) powercfg.exe -h off
This gave me about 6 more gb of disk space.
 

voyagerfan99

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How much ram does your system have? I'd change your pagefile size to a custom size of 2048mb if you have more than 4GB of RAM installed.
 

linkin

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1) Reduce page file size. Set it to a static size through system properties.

2) Run this from elevated command prompt to disable hibernation and delete the hibernation file: "powercfg -h off" (without quotes)

3) If you have MS Office installed and you have the installation media, you can safely delete the MSOCache folder under the C drive

4) If you've installed AMD of Nvidia drivers, check the C:\ folder for AMD/Nvidia folders and delete them as they only contain installers. For nvidia also check in program files for the "installer2" folder under nvidia which you can also delete
 

A_Tom

Member
I got rid of the hiberfile. Since I have 8gb of ram, the page file is set to 8 also, which is fine with me.
 

voyagerfan99

Master of Turning Things Off and Back On Again
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You don't need or want an 8GB page file with an SSD. Shrink it down to 1 or 2GB.
 
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