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So we are looking for appr. 37GBs that is neither in the files nor on the shadowstorage. That will be an interesting chase for an elephant. Let's see the WinDirStat picture.
Ok. Here are the files that show the issue.
Explorer, Disk Mgmt, Restore, VSSAdmin and WinDirStat
Ran WinDirStat as admin.
Also had run chkdsk and no issues were found
Machine has 3 users set up and I logged in as Admin.
Win-7 Prof 64 bit
AVG Anti-Virus
Use Erunt for Registry backups
Use Auslogics for defrag
Last edited by nkaufman; 02 Feb 2015 at 07:16.
On the WinDirStat picture, the two big red areas are probably your pagefile and your hiberfile. If you do not use hibernation, you can get rid of the hiberfile with this command:
powecfg -h off
That will save you 3GBs. The pagefile could be reduced to 2GBs. Saves another 2GB.
But what is that big grey area in the middle. I cannot quite tell. Click on it and it should tell you in the upper pane.
But none of that explains the 37GBs that are missing. Open the C partition and look whether you see anything big and suspicious in there. You will have to open the folders or look at the properties of the folders in order to see the size. Anything "log" would catch my attention.
True. Since I use hibernate (to keep battery usage low when compared to Sleep), I do not mind keeping the hibernate file as is. Can definitely reduce the pagefile size.
That is the free space ~ 10GB
Yes, that is the issue that I'm facing right now. More than pagefile or hibernate file. Instead of 37GB, I think it is more around 27GB. You might be adding the 10GB of free space in there as missing.
will try and search for *log* and see what it returns.
thanks,
Last edited by nkaufman; 02 Feb 2015 at 14:52.
Searched for *log* on C:\
Did not find anything suspiciously large. The suspense is killing me
That is strange. Normally WinDirStat lists only files/folders. That must be a file too.That is the free space ~ 10GB
Don't only search for log stuff but for anything that could be big and suspicious. You have to do that 'manually',.will try and search for *log* and see what it returns.
No, go to Computer and double click on the C partition. Then you see all the folders and files in your system. It will look something like in my picture. For the files, the size is on the right side but folders you have to open or look at the properties (which is easier). If you see a big chunk, look further.