It doesn't add up-Strorage capacity

[Guest]

CPU, when i right click on the gry area it says

 

 

 

No open folder option

Edit

The open explore option takes me back to the c directory

[Guest]

Exactly. There should be files in your C directory that consumes the 27Gb. For sure there is the PageFile.sys. You cannot remove it (but you may reduce its size if you really want to.)

If your computer has the "Hibernation" feature enabled, then also this other file may consume a huge amount of space.

[BillBellochek]

 

Your "Games" directory contains 35.6 Gb

Windows is using 24Gb

"Users" as 7.1Gb (probably files on your desktop, pictures, documents, etc.)

The other folders are very small in size and I will not lose time on them.

 

But you have 27.8Gb in your root C: drive. For sure there is the page file that is consuming space. But double check what is in the root folder.

 

Edit: Keep in mind that the PageFile.sys is NOT visible in normal circumstances. And it consumes about the double of your installed memory.

 

 

 

 

How do i access that?The other areas are clickable.The grey one is not

 

Also Disk cleanup didn't find anything probably because i runned ccleaner first

 

 

I'm not familiar with the JDiskReport utility, so I'll let CPU go into that. However I'll give you an example with my computer.

 

 

 

 

As you can see ther are a few very large blocks taking up the most room. The folders holding the most data are: Windows and Users. However there are 2 files that are taking up just over 10GB on their own. Those are pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys. pagefile.sys is what you'd expect, the page file your computer uses (also known as SWAP). The hiberfil.sys is a file Windows uses to store your active session to when you use the Hibernate function. As you can see my pagefile is 4.2GB, but my hibernate file is 6.3GB. So there is 10GB of unusable space.

As for my User files, my Documents folder is 3GB because it's full of Minecraft mods. My Downloads folder has 2.5GB because it's full of Skyrim mods. However the biggest offender is the AppData folder. The appdata folder is a place where programs often store common files, files they access often, among other things. In my case, the 2 biggest folders are Spotify and all my Minecraft ModPacks. So if I were to clear out some of the modpacks I have downloaded then I will gain extra free space.

[Guest]

 

 

 

 

That's where it takes me, to my c directory, the whole of it...76gb, not somewhere else in my c drice!

How do i see if i have hybernation feature enabled?

[BillBellochek]

Exactly. There should be files in your C directory that consumes the 27Gb. For sure there is the PageFile.sys. You cannot remove it (but you may reduce its size if you really want to.)

If your computer has the "Hibernation" feature enabled, then also this other file may consume a huge amount of space.

 

He could also move the page file over to his I drive and save the space on his SSD.

[bjornk]

Go to Start, type cmd and run it, type DIR C:\*.SYS /AH, and see if there's a hiberfil.sys. It's size should be 75% of your total RAM.

[BillBellochek]

 

 

 

 

That's where it takes me, to my c directory, the whole of it...76gb, not somewhere else in my c drice!

How do i see if i have hybernation feature enabled?

 

Chances are it's on if you haven't disabled it already. You can check by clicking on your start button>clicking the arrow next to shutdown> and if hibernate is listed as an option, it is enabled.

 

Here's how to turn it off.

[Guest]

Go to Start, type cmd and run it, type DIR C:\*.SYS /AH, and see if there's a hiberfil.sys. It's size should be 75% of your total RAM.

iT SAYS

12.789.735.424 HIBERFIL.SYS

17.052.983.296 pagefile.sys

[bjornk]

So you have 16 GB RAM. I don't see any problem there.

[Guest]

YOU PEOPLE ARE   F A N T A S T I C

I disabled hibernation and now it says that i have about 20.3 gb of free space! Thanks a lot!

[BillBellochek]

 

 

It's a Windows utility. Go to Start then type Disk Cleanup, it'll show up, then right-click on it and choose run as admin.

 

You really shouldn't use more than 80% of the total capacity of an SSD.

 

What? Where you pulling that out of? Unlike HDD's, SSD's don't slow down as they fill up. So there's no benefit to keeping a buffer of free space on the SSD, in terms of performance.

 

http://www.anandtech.com/show/6489/playing-with-op

http://www.howtogeek.com/165472/6-things-you-shouldnt-do-with-solid-state-drives/

http://www.pcworld.com/article/2110095/the-ultimate-guide-to-proper-ssd-management.html

 

 

SSD's write to new blocks when storing data, then the garbage on the SSD clears off the old data (TRIM). So you only need to keep free for the amout of data that will be written to the SSD at one time, while not forgetting about the space that is inaccessible and is used for provisioning. So if he's keeping 20% of the SSD free, then he'd have to be writing over 22GB at a time. Keeping 20% free is massive overkill.

[bjornk]

YOU PEOPLE ARE   F A N T A S T I C

I disabled hibernation and now it says that i have about 20.3 gb of free space! Thanks a lot!

Instead of trying to get rid of system files, I recommend that you keep your game files on another drive, a 120GB SSD is too small to keep large games.

[BillBellochek]

YOU PEOPLE ARE   F A N T A S T I C

I disabled hibernation and now it says that i have about 20.3 gb of free space! Thanks a lot!

 

Glad to help. Just remember that with the hibernate function turned off you can't hibernate (obviously). However if you never used it before you're not loosing anything with it disabled.

[Dasanko]

Another point to understand why a 256Gb drive has only 240Gb space (the consideration from @BillBellochek is true but it varies for different manufacturers) is:

* The commercial capacity of a drive is calculated in 1000 byes for a Kilobyte.

* The capacity calculated by the OS is a power of two, so there are 1024 bytes in a KB.

 

So from the "commercial" capacity you always have about 2.5% less available when you use the drive.

 

There are always 1000 bytes in a KB, precisely because KB stands for KiloByte.

 

Many OSes will report the size using KiB (KibiBytes) instead, which does contain 1024 bytes per unit.

 

The greatest source of confusion here would be Microsoft's fault, as they have Windows report storage size in KiB/MiB/GiB/TiB, but display KB/MB/GB/TB as the storage units used.

 

Storage manufacturers always advertise their products in GB/TB (arguably a marketing trick), so you do always get precisely what you pay for.

 

As for the OP, could have tried cleaning out %TMP%.

 

EDIT: Finally, the only actual recommendation for CCleaner is to burn both the computers that have it installed, and their users.