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SSD HD fills fast - BSOD - restart/chkdsk - passes but FREES UP 30GB?!
Windows 7 Pro, hard drive is a 250gb "Samsung SSD PM830 2.5" 7", and its a Dell Latitude E6530 that I have had since the beginning of 2013.
Especially over the last year (possibly before that), I have noticed that my hard drive's free space decreases drastically, and despite my best efforts to monitor my free space and what takes that space up, I have been confused and frustrated as the decreases often don't match up (in both space size and timing) to whatever I save/install/etc. to the hard drive. That said, I use Steam for computer games, so I have sort of assumed it was just game updates that I didn't notice, forgot about, etc.
Then, about 2 months-ish ago, while uninstalling a few softwares, I get a BSOD with error messages. I restart, run the full chk dsk that requires the restart, restart again, the chk dsk doesn't reveal anything "bad," but then my drive's free space goes from about 13-ish GB to 45-ish GB!!!! I was thrilled, and for a couple weeks the free space remained much more consistent with what was being updated/removed from the drive. Great!
Eventually, however, things began to revert back to before - multiple GB of free space just disappearing, etc.
Then, this morning, after merely removing the power cable from the pc and picking it up, I get another BSOD. This time, I wasn't uninstalling anything. I repeat the same process as before [one exception that I don't think I dealt with last time being that I had to restart the pc twice at first because after turning off the pc from the BSOD and turning it back on I got some sort of error about windows not being able to run. Turn off, turn on again, and that's gone and I get the standard safe or normal mode screen], and again the chk dsk report appears clean, but I again go from 13-ish GB to 41.5 GB of free space.
With apologies for the long explanation, can anyone explain to me what's going on with my pc and/or what I can/should do to resolve this? I will be backing up my pc immediately when I get home from work tonight, and I have run malware and virus scans that create restore points too.
Last edited by LEVAMDG; 10 Jun 2015 at 10:41. Reason: adding attachment