The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    New laptop but 70GB using out of 100GB

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by g2ney, Nov 7, 2011.

  1. g2ney

    g2ney Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    21
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Hi...
    I bought a new Asus UX31 and out of 103GB SSD, about 30GB is already in use.
    How can I find what is eating so much space? Thanks guys.
     
    g2ney, Nov 7, 2011
    #1
  2. Xonar

    Xonar Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    1,457
    Messages:
    1,518
    Likes Received:
    13
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Windows 7 is ~30GB.
     
    Xonar, Nov 7, 2011
    #2
  3. g2ney

    g2ney Notebook Enthusiast

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    21
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    5
    Thanks for the info!
     
    g2ney, Nov 7, 2011
    #3
  4. PinoyBoy

    PinoyBoy Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    46
    Messages:
    228
    Likes Received:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Windows 7 SP1 (clean installed) including needed drivers, is only 23gb for my laptop.
     
    PinoyBoy, Nov 8, 2011
    #4
  5. Xonar

    Xonar Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    1,457
    Messages:
    1,518
    Likes Received:
    13
    Trophy Points:
    56
    I just reformatted today and it was ~30GB after updates & drivers only. Lots of factors as to what's eating up the room:

    Bloatware, system restore points, recovery partition(s), maybe depends on which version (I'm running Ultimate x64, lots of Windows features eat up room), etc.
     
    Xonar, Nov 8, 2011
    #5
  6. chucko83

    chucko83 Notebook Consultant

    Reputations:
    2
    Messages:
    139
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    google space sniffer. it's a nice program taht tells you where your drive space is being used, and you dont have to install antyhing!
     
    chucko83, Nov 8, 2011
    #6
  7. SL2

    SL2 Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    829
    Messages:
    1,340
    Likes Received:
    266
    Trophy Points:
    101
    103 GB sounds odd to begin with, I think it got a 128 GB SSD, which means you get 119 GB in Windows.
    Those other 16 GB missing could be a hidden recovery partition.
    If that's true, then there's 49 GB used.

    IMO, you've got 33 GB of waste, a 4 GB pagefile and a 4 GB hibernation file.

    A clean install of 64-bit Windows 7 SP1 Ultimate uses 7.3 GB (no pagefile, no hibernation, no separately installed drivers, no hard links included)
    If you reinstall, remove all the partitions including the recovery partition.
    Set the pagefile to 1 GB, disable hibernation, install the needed drivers, and you'll get 40 GB more space.
     

    Attached Files:

    SL2, Nov 8, 2011
    #7
  8. Deks

    Deks Notebook Prophet

    Reputations:
    1,272
    Messages:
    5,201
    Likes Received:
    2,072
    Trophy Points:
    331
    Agreed that a clean Win7 with SP1 x64 and all updates is less than 30GB.
    Only with extra programs, etc. could it be seen as 30GB or more.
    You probably have something else 'eating' at your space (the recovery partition, shadow volume, etc...)
     
    Deks, Nov 9, 2011
    #8
  9. Abidderman

    Abidderman Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    376
    Messages:
    734
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    I think your losing a lot of room because of the over provisioning that is built in to the ssd. If we knew which ssd it was it would help. My guess it is a SF ssd with a good bit of overprovisioning built in.
     
    Abidderman, Nov 9, 2011
    #9
  10. Nick

    Nick Professor Carnista

    Reputations:
    3,860
    Messages:
    4,089
    Likes Received:
    631
    Trophy Points:
    181
    Doesn't Windows match the page file to the size of installed ram? My MSI had a 6GB page file.
     
    Nick, Nov 9, 2011
    #10
  11. Xonar

    Xonar Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    1,457
    Messages:
    1,518
    Likes Received:
    13
    Trophy Points:
    56
    Wow, nice catch. Mine is set to 12GB :p
     
    Xonar, Nov 9, 2011
    #11