Hard drive filling up with nothing


  1. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
       #1

    Hard drive filling up with nothing


    Over the last little while I've noticed my hard drive appears to be filling up with absolutely ****ing nothing, and today I just noticed the worse case of it. I had 317 GB remaining today, then a few hours later after installing ****ing nothing suddenly 17 GB IS GONE. I now have 300 GB remaining. I downloaded 3 programs to make webms, two of which I uninstalled cause they were bad and the one I kept is only 25 MB. SO WHERE THE HELL DID THE 17 GB GO?? I looked through all my program folders and such a saw nothing new, let alone anything new that's 17 GB. I did a virus scan with Avast and nothing popped up. If I go to my C drive and highlight all my files (including hidden files) the total size comes to 525 GB, but when I right click my Local Disk, the total size of my used space is 634 GB (fun fact, since typing this and performing an error checking scan, another 3 GB is gone). What the **** is going on? Where the hell is this invisible 109 GB??
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  2. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
       #2

    It`s probably system restore.
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  3. Posts : 6,330
    Multi-Boot W7_Pro_x64 W8.1_Pro_x64 W10_Pro_x64 +Linux_VMs +Chromium_VM
       #3

    Check how much space is used for System Restore.
    There is a problem with Avast setting it to 50%.

    If that doesn't help, try WizTree, they have a portable.zip available, no install needed.
    Antibody Software - WizTree finds the files and folders using the most disk space on your hard drive
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  4. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #4

    DavidE said:
    Check how much space is used for System Restore.
    There is a problem with Avast setting it to 50%.

    If that doesn't help, try WizTree, they have a portable.zip available, no install needed.
    Antibody Software - WizTree finds the files and folders using the most disk space on your hard drive
    How do I check that?
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  6. Posts : 5
    Windows 7 Home Premium x64
    Thread Starter
       #6

    Ok, that did seem to be the issue. I'm up to 381 GB now with only 15 GB of invisible stuff. Downloaded WizTree to check some things out and I see some files that are 8 GB and 5 GB called pagefile.sys and hiberfil.sys and they're just in the C drive not in any particular folder with a few other files. Are they needed or can they be deleted?
    Edit: Nevermind I noticed two large iso files for a game that got duplicated some how and upon deleting those I'm down to 4 GB of invisible stuff so I'm all good now. Thanks for the help.
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  7. Posts : 13,576
    Windows 10 Pro x64
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