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    SSD filling up for no apparent reason

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by Danishblunt, Dec 13, 2018.

  1. Danishblunt

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    Probably somehting you know about. My primary partition is full for absolutely no apparent reason. It is a 250GB SSD and there is only 88GB of files installed on the drive, so the other ~170GB are just used by absolutely nothing.

    Any clue what is causing this dumb behaiviour??
     
    Danishblunt, Dec 13, 2018
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    xLima Notebook Evangelist

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    Probably Hibernate.

    Download and use WinDirStat and have it search the drive you are asking about. It will display a GUI that shows complete allocation of storage space.

    Hiberfil.sys is hibernate file.

    Good luck.

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    xLima, Dec 13, 2018
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    Well ok, fixed it.

    For anyone wondering how to fix this issue:
    WinDirStat to the rescue.

    In my case: Some files did get stuck in temp folders because I did overclock and benchmark while doing random file transfers, which made the system bluescreen at times and get the files stuck in temp folder, while showing incorrect size.
     
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    Which reminds me, for those readers working with SSDs, here's a nice check-list for an SSD on Windows 7. You can also apply this information to Windows 10:

    https://www.disk-partition.com/kb/tips-ssd-optimization-windows7-1.html
    https://www.disk-partition.com/kb/tips-ssd-optimization-windows7-2.html
    https://www.disk-partition.com/kb/tips-ssd-optimization-windows7-3.html

    One item not on the list which would've helped Danishblunt is my check item #11:

    If you have a mechanical (spinning) HDD or tons of memory (32GB or more), consider allocating space on the mechanical drive or running a RAM-drive, and then mapping your TEMP and TMP environment variables to that space. Also, while I don't know if this works with a RAM-drive due to when it is actually created, with a mechanical HDD consider using a Windows Junction point for some of the other Windows areas which fill up and is OK to lose upon shutdown - %LOCALAPPDATA%\Temp and %WINDIR%\Temp come to mind and could be moved to another place using a Junction.


    Note, moving system and user profile directories is an advanced feature. Please thoroughly research this before making any changes to your system:

    https://lifehacker.com/5467758/move-the-users-directory-in-windows-7
    https://www.starkeith.net/coredump/...e-your-windows-user-profile-to-another-drive/
     
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    jclausius, Dec 13, 2018
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