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1119057 2010-07-15 10:50:00 I have lost some hard drive space on my SSD
Its set to C:/ and is missing about 30gb.

80gb SSD
C:/ = 29gb (show hidden is on)
Should leave about 45gb free

Used space = 49gb
Free space = 25gb


So how can used space be 49gb when C:/ only has 29gb of files?
DeSade (984)
1119058 2010-07-15 11:02:00 System restore uses a bit Roger Hunt (13648)
1119059 2010-07-15 11:26:00 System restore uses a bit

3.75gb
still over 30gb missing
DeSade (984)
1119060 2010-07-15 20:27:00 Try emptying the recycle bin!

I once had an app that searches out duplicate files purge my drive of something crazy like 100GB... a figure way in excess of the recycle bins alleged capacity.

None of the expected free space would show up.

After much wringing of hands I found that somehowe the entire lot was in the recycle bin and still reported as using up HDD space. Emptying the bin released all the space.

On the other hand, SSDs have limited re-write life cycles. Perhaps (hopefully not) your SSD has been slowly voiding addresses that are going bad.
Paul.Cov (425)
1119061 2010-07-15 21:10:00 The SSD is less than 6 months old.
I emptyed the bin through the cleaner but will empty it manually again tonight see if that does anything.
DeSade (984)
1119062 2010-07-15 22:13:00 Try this:
www.jam-software.com
pctek (84)
1119063 2010-07-16 07:22:00 ooooops double post zqwerty (97)
1119064 2010-07-16 07:23:00 Try this, don't get the new version, it costs,

www.aplusfreeware.com

Be careful, disable the 'delete' in options until you know what you want to delete.
zqwerty (97)
1119065 2010-07-16 15:43:00 clean it out with CCleaner
http://www.piriform.com/
Roger Hunt (13648)
1119066 2010-07-16 23:27:00 I had 35 GB missing - took me a long time to try find it - still no luck until I used a directory size program like Soft-Central SC-disk Info, to analyze which folders consumed up space. It found a Avast Anti virus folder had over 35, 000 log files (about 4 kb each), so check antivirus log files or similar. kahawai chaser (3545)
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