Solved 60 GB SSD drive - OCZ Vertex, 30 GB missing

[ArmedPacifist]

Hello there, this is my first post and I'm glad to be here. Sevenforums has helped me numerous times in the past with similar problems but I have never had to ask for help.

So here I am starting over with a fresh win 7 ultimate x64 install on a formatted 60 GB SSD C/). When all is up and running, I have 15.9 GB free space.
I enable show hidden files and selects every folder on my SSD drive, it says the selected contents take up 15.4 GB.

This is where I take advantage of my mathematical skills and come to the conclusion that I have ~25 GB not showing up anywhere.

By the way, the drive shows up as having 55.90 GB capacity. I have moved the user folder to a second drive and disabled indexing on C/) but the problem persists.

I have been searching and searching, some people mention hibsys, pagesys and corrupt recycle bins but I can't make any sense of it.

Thanks in advance

 

[stereo]

Did you check in Disk Management ? Maybe some unallocated space ??

 

[ArmedPacifist]

E: is just a bootable USB

 

[ArmedPacifist]

I found out that pagefile.sys and hibfil.sys were using alot of space. I have 16 gb RAM and it is recommended to have a pagefile.sys 1.5 to 2 times larger than that.

But I found it out by using TreeSize - Disk analyzer program with a 30 day trial. Try it if you have disk problems...

Anyway, this is solved so I thank you stereo for the reply