Why does my C: drive, under MS Windows 8.1 keep filling up with garbage?  Parameters: 228GB SSD hiberfile: 26.8GB pagefile: 19.9GB swapfile: 16.8Megabytes    I searched for large system files but only found hiberfile and pagefile. Is there another hidden location for the remaining 181 GB?  Why does this not show up on any searches? In search, I enter size:>1gb but nothing shows! No hiberfile, pagefile, or swapfile. Do system files show up in searches?  So where is the other 181.3GB and why can't I see it?
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How can I visualize which folders and files are taking up all of the space on my hard drive?  I'm getting some conflicting reports on the size of hard drive contents. Namely what is and isn't there and what folders are actually using the space.   I need to know which of the files or folders the culprits behind all this hidden bloat. Also there should be a print option to get it on paper.
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I'm trying to determine what's eating almost half of disk on my Windows 7 Lenovo laptop but haven't been able to determine what.  I read some of the answers on this site but none of the causes seems to be the cause of my problem.  What I've done so far:   Checked Windows' System Restore points but only minimum use, either way I deleted around 2GB if usage from there Used WinDirStat and it came back with a total of 71.3GB usage at the root level C Drives properties says 135GB being used out of 138 GB total, ie, 135 GB - 71.3GB = 63.7GB missing somewhere No "Unknown" files reported by WinDirStat Windows Disk Management utility doesn't report any unused partitions or unclaimed space chkdsk comes out clean Windows disk cleanup tool doesn't report anything big, just small stuff in the lower MB range Lenovo backup tool hasn't been used nor there is a folder for the backup images   Any idea on what to look at and/or do?  EDIT: some additional info...
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I have an SSD with 64 GB and a 6 GB/s 1 Terabyte hard drive. I want to use the SSD only as a boot device and maybe for swap storage. On the 1 Terabyte hard drive, I want to have the main file system. As in Windows, I liked to have at least 2-3 Partitions example for music games programs and so on. Which partition layout do you recommend to me?
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I have a 90GB SSD but 90GB soon gets filled up.  My users folder alone is 26GB.  To get round this I use Symlinks (read the  for more).    Is there any way to make a separate SSD and HDD work like a hybrid so that frequently accessed files are moved to the SSD automatically?  This would be a nice addition to Windows 8 but I'm not holding out my hopes.    I guess ReadyBoost is a bit like this but its more designed for USB sticks I think.  I did try installing Windows 7 with the SSD as a readyboost but didn't really notice any much improvement over just using the HDD.
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I would like to have a list of the installed software on my machine, with the disk space consumed by them alongside. I would prefer to be able to order by largest/smallest, but that is not a necessity.  I am the sort of person who will install software to try it, and never clean up after myself.  As a result, my 7GB (Windows and my Data are on separate partitions, as well as a swap area) Ubuntu 11.04 partition is suffering, and has started regularly showing warning messages.
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One of our Windows 2003 servers has a fairly small C-partition, which is approaching full. I've had a quick look round using  as to where the space has gone, and a fair bit of it seems to be taken up with C:\WINDOWS\SoftwareDistribution\Download  I think this folder is used as a temporary storage for Windows Update, but as all the pending Windows updates have now been installed, is it OK to delete the contents of this folder?
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Recently in Windows Explorer, a "Local Disk (F:)" Drive appeared and shows 34.2MB free of 449MB, but when I double click on it, Explorer shows no files on this drive. I don't have any idea what this is and I haven't plugged in any USB drives lately, and I don't have any plugged in now. I scanned it for viruses and it was okay. Windows also keeps notifying me that this drive is low on disk space.  Does anyone have any idea what this drive is?  EDIT: Looks like this issue is since the April 30, 2018 update to Windows 10, as detailed .
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I'm trying to shrink my partition. In order to achieve the amount that I need, I'm using JKdefrag. I've seen that some files are marked red - not movable, like hibernation.sys and pagefile.sys.  In the end, they are just files, and I'm an administrator. The only thing I can do remove them by .  Why are they not movable?     Note: I'm not asking how to disable the hibernation.sys, pagefile.sys, etc. file. I'm looking for the reason why they are not movable. The answers in probable duped question don't contain the reason.
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I'm considering getting an SSD drive to run as the primary OS partition.  As I understand, this should provide a substantial improvement in performance.     My question is this: Should I leave the swap file on that drive?     The swap partition will be largely random seeks and so should benefit from the speed.  On the other hand, it will be constantly written to which will wear out the drive faster.
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I have two SSD disks of 256GB and I want to create a single spanning volume of 512GB. I am using Windows 10. What I want to know is how will Windows handle this under the hood.  Will the first disk fill up before the second one starts being used, or will Windows use both disks. For example, if I have 256GB of data on the spanning volume, will it be divided to 128GB on first and 128GB on second physical disk or will it all be on the first disk with the second disk empty? Would this behavior be any different if I were using two HDDs?
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I met the same problem of not being able to shrink the Windows OS partition C: as much as I plan to due to unmovable files.  Having learned from , I would like to "turn System Restore off and remove System Volume Information folders". So I was wondering where and how I can "turn System Restore off and remov System Volume Information folders"?  This is the only way I can find out to solve my problem. If you have other way please let me know.
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I have recently installed Ubuntu 14.04 on my dual boot PC with Windows 8.1. On Ubuntu I have seen a 524 MB drive popped up.  As I take a look at it, its not swap or anything. Its contents are as follows:   Can I delete the partition and extend the 104 GB partition? Or I should leave it as it is?
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I have recently upgraded my desktop PC and installed a SSD as system drive.   I read somewhere that these drives "don't like" being written on too much and that one needs to enable/disable certain OS features for such drives.  I checked the properties for the drive C: in Windows 8 and here's what I got.      Q1: As you see Allow files on this drive to have contents indexed in addition to file properties is checked. Does it need to be checked for that drive?  Q2: Is there anything else that I need to change in the settings to accommodate for the SSD?
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I have a similar issue as . You can pretty much take his screen shot and apply it to my issue: Windows 8.1, 99% disk usage or in that vicinity for a longer period of time (minutes). Yet the individual disk usage stats don't add up to more than roughly 1MB/Sec. I have an SSD disk capable of much higher throughput.  The question I linked to doesn't provide much answer, but one comment hints to low free disk space. That is an issue with my disk. I have only ~1GB left of free space on my C drive. But my follow-up question is why would that matter? Windows does pre-allocate 6GB of virtual drive, doesn't it? At least that's how I interpret "currently allocated" in the Virtual Memory settings screen under System Properties &rarr; Performance options.  I've tried to use the  to gain some information on what's using the disk, but the amount of data logged in just a couple of seconds is so vast that I don't know where to start. The only thing I see is that service.exe accesses the registry a lot... But I guess that's normal? If anyone care to take a look, the log dump is  (19MB)  To summarize:   Does the disk usage really go up when free space declines? If so, why? Can anyone deduct from my Procmon log file what program or process causes 99% disk usage?   edit: To comment on the "malware"-answer in the other post: I'd like to know, not guess. I doubt it is malware in my case, but if it is, my logs should show that.  update: Similar case just happened. Any clues from these two ResMon screenshots?      "System" doesn't really tell me much.
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Just discovered I have gotten a FOUND.000 folder on my usb drive. I guess from running chkdsk once. It has three files in it:   FILE0000.CHK FILE0001.CHK FILE0002.CHK   What exactly can I do with these files? What are my options? Are they lost files? Are they garbage? Can I use them for anything at all? Or will I just have to delete them?
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I cleared space on my disk by deleting files and emptying trash. But, I am unable to make use of the space that I freed up. That is, as you can see the disk reports 142 GB as Available with 83 GB of that as purgeable.    So I should have plenty of space to to copy over a 70 GB file onto the disk. Yet when I try I get an error stating "Not enough disk space to copy", like the following image shows:    How do I clear out the purgeable space to make it truly available for use?  I've tried rebooting in the hopes that a restart clears out the purgeable area, but had no change trying that.
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I have a problem that my windows 7 computer sometimes starts accessing the disk like crazy for maybe 10 minutes at a time. The process in question is the "system" process. I have disabled superfetch and hibernation on my computer, if that makes any difference. I disabled those to see if they were the cause of the problems, but no change. I have 6 GB of RAM and only the web browser was started when I took the screenshot, so I don't think it was thrashing due to page faults.  Any ideas on how to find the cause of this?