Windows 8 - Odd HDD behaviour

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#1

No idea what the hell is happening here.

I have Windows 8.0, on an Asus laptop with a 1TB HDD. I have several partitions.

1 for OS
1 for Games
1 for Apps
1 for Java Dev

On the OS drive, I have allocated 50GB, 20GB of that is taken by Windows.
I also have 9GB in the User, just random crap I intend to delete
I have 4GB in program files, some software is shit and you can’t tell it where to go.

So that is 33GB. I should have roughly 15GB left, I have 200mb and I can not figure out where the hell the rest has went.

Yesterday, I had 0 left, I deleted 15GB worth of crap from Temp files, I checked today and Temp files is only 3mb.

Any ideas to where this 15GB has vanished?..

#2

Probably your page file

System Properties -> Advanced Tab -> Performance Settings -> Advanced Tab -> Change

Edit: I guess my path might be different for Windows 8

#3

Can’t be, but good guess. My Page File only allocates 5gb at any given time. Even after a clean restart, which should clear the page file…still missing the space.

#4

[quote=“Gibbo3771,post:1,topic:48261”]
Emptied the Recycle bin? :persecutioncomplex:

#5

[quote=“Riven,post:4,topic:48261”]

Ahhh…

Just pulling, ofc ::slight_smile:

#6

Hibernation sleep image? It takes almost 4 GB…

#7

Install a VM recently? Unlikely, but it would explain such a large anomaly.

#8

I stole your 15GB.

#9

WTF? Ok one of the OS and one for other stuff but why so many? (Self thought question here…no response required).

#10

Tough you are getting one, it makes it easier to manage files imo.