khunsanuk Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 Hi, Right, there's about 70Gb missing. Is your pagefile set to use the D drive? That could easily add a few more Gb. Hibernation might well be turned on as well (useless on a laptop). Check to see if there is a file called 'hiberfil.sys' in the root (might need to turn on viewing of hidden files). If there is, you can delete it to free up some space. I think it is usually on the C drive though. Hiberfil.sys -> http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/15140/what-is-hiberfil.sys-and-how-do-i-delete-it/ Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 9, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 It's not a laptop. I've run Crap Cleaner, running Spybot right now. Hasn't made any changes to the D drive. Where do I find the page file? Windows says 0 files fragmented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
khunsanuk Posted April 9, 2013 Report Share Posted April 9, 2013 Hi, The page file is a hidden file called pagefile.sys. Do NOT delete it. Fragmentation is not really related to this. Would not account for anything close to the amount of space you are missing. Sanuk! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted April 10, 2013 Report Share Posted April 10, 2013 Use http://download.cnet.com/WinDirStat/3000-2248_4-10614593.html WinDirStat is a disk usage statistics viewer and cleanup tool for Microsoft Windows (all current variants). WinDirStat reads the whole directory tree once and then presents it in three useful views: the directory list, which resembles the tree view of the Windows Explorer but is sorted by file/subtree size; the treemap, which shows the whole contents of the directory tree straight away; and the extension list, which serves as a legend and shows statistics about the file types. Read more: WinDirStat - CNET Download.com http://download.cnet.com/WinDirStat/3000-2248_4-10614593.html#ixzz2Q1A4RHwy Check your anti-virus program to see if it is grabbing the space. I assume your PC has 4GB or more RAM. Set the max. page file size to 4 GB. Run a file system check. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zen4dummies Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Some time ago I had the same problem. The D Drive was almost full and there were not enought files on it to fill it up. Virus checks showed nothing. I found a utility - FolderSizes - that would rank the folders on a drive by size and when I ran this it came up with a very large file that could not be seen in any mode. Using FolderSizes I deleted the file and had no more problems. I must have checked to see if the file was growing but do not recall what I found out. In any case the problem was resolved. In my opinion FolderSizes is very professionally written. You can try it without cost. Its worth a try. zen Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Thanks. I turned off the backup and I see that since then the space on the D drive has not changed. Whatever that file is, it must have been getting backed up repeatedly. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 Results - 69.7 gb - System Volume Information 60.1 gb - User-PC 58.3 gb - Windows Image Backup 9.66 gb - backup 13.6 gb - movies (which I plan to copy to a flash drive and delete) Total on D drive -232 bg. So why is system volume information so high? It occupies 32.9% of the D drive. That is what was missing on my earlier checks. Nothing else more than files of a few mgb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
radioman Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 System Volume Information is where all the restore points get stored. Try clearing out all the system restore points except the last known good one and then recheck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Flashermac Posted April 15, 2013 Author Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 I had two backups to choose from. I kept the one through April and dumped the other. Gained over 30 gb. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
baa99 Posted April 15, 2013 Report Share Posted April 15, 2013 http://mintywhite.com/windows-7/7maintenance/change-limit-system-restore-windows-7/ System restore in Windows 7 is more customisable than before. You can specify how much space is taken by system restore, and how it backs you up. This guide will walk you through the custom options and show you how to change & limit system restore Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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