Posted January 09, 2016
So since yesterday, after I started downloading some files, then deleted then, then started downloading them and decided against it again, I lost about 5 GB. No idea how. About 5 GB of pre-allocated files (out of about 18GB) were suddenly gone even if they weren't supposed to be, and I couldn't find them when I looked at Windirstat. I just found about 7GB of "unknown" taken up space I couldn't find out what it what even when using Admin mode in the app.
And slowly, during the day, 1GB of space started disappearing, including today, so I'm down from 35-37GB to 19.9 GB. Now, part of it is probably because I haven't cleared my RAM and pagesys/hiberfilsys as I often put my laptop to sleep, and according to it 9.9 GB are used up on that, however that "unknown" taken up space got bigger and now it's from 7GB whole 11GB!
I'm not downloading any Windows or other updates that I'm aware of, and I'm on Win 7.
I tried using Spacesniffer but it's so convoluted that it doesn't show me that missing space either - does anyone have any tips which software might show me where have those 11GB gone and why is my HDD space slowly going down without me dowloading anything? Or just what to do? I haven't restarted my laptop yet in case it's some kind of HDD error - hoping it's not - so that might get me those 10GB from hibernation back, however there's still thsoe 11GB of unknown stuff that keeps getting bigger!
EDIT: Thanks to TreeSize Free it's apparently my system restore points, which suddenly went up double their size. Any way of deleting individual restore points?
And slowly, during the day, 1GB of space started disappearing, including today, so I'm down from 35-37GB to 19.9 GB. Now, part of it is probably because I haven't cleared my RAM and pagesys/hiberfilsys as I often put my laptop to sleep, and according to it 9.9 GB are used up on that, however that "unknown" taken up space got bigger and now it's from 7GB whole 11GB!
I'm not downloading any Windows or other updates that I'm aware of, and I'm on Win 7.
I tried using Spacesniffer but it's so convoluted that it doesn't show me that missing space either - does anyone have any tips which software might show me where have those 11GB gone and why is my HDD space slowly going down without me dowloading anything? Or just what to do? I haven't restarted my laptop yet in case it's some kind of HDD error - hoping it's not - so that might get me those 10GB from hibernation back, however there's still thsoe 11GB of unknown stuff that keeps getting bigger!
EDIT: Thanks to TreeSize Free it's apparently my system restore points, which suddenly went up double their size. Any way of deleting individual restore points?
Post edited January 09, 2016 by Green_Hilltop
This question / problem has been solved by catermune