Not so long ago I upgraded and decided I'd use a 120GB SSD as my boot drive and use my HDD as Steam storage. I now have 20.2GB left ... where has it all gone? I have Counter-Strike Source installed and that is stored on the SSD. I also have all my game saves on the SSD in Documents. I also have Adobe Creative Suite on the SSD but that is only 9GB. Adobe Acrobat X Pro is 2GB. Surely Windows7 is mis-reporting? I just deleted Recent Places content and my Downloads folder and now have 29GB free. Which is great! But still ... where's my SSD space gone? Win+ a few apps+ Source game + game saves ... does not equal 91GB ...
Thanks CDomville! I have little pac'men analysing my discs for me right now added: it turns out I have over 6GB of screenshots for Counter Strike Source ... I must be mad! That program (windirStat) is awesome! added: I have a system file called hiberfil.sys, which apparently is a file needed for hibernation, but I don't use hibernation and as far as I know it is turned off - no option in the shutdown menu - can I delete it? I've since deleted it by following 'claymanscher's instructions in his post on this thread: http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/...ome-disk/ef41dcef-ed7a-447f-82da-e04c2b4dae11 Now 41.1GB FREE! yeehaa.
If you want even more room you can move your pagefile from SSD to HDD which gives you load more room and no difference in speed!
meh i guess trim helps with it but it seem unnecessary to thrash your SSD with read/writes all the time.
First thing to do on a new build is to go in to the registry and look for: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\ProgramFilesDir Change that from C:\Program Files to something like D:\Applications (or whatever drive letter you use for your applications) This keeps your C: drive as empty as possible. You can also change the location of your My Documents folder (which by default in also on the C: drive): http://support.microsoft.com/kb/310147
No no. I want the SSD drive to be bootable and contain my apps and boot Steam etc. The games I only store on my HDD until I decide to play whichever one or two and then use SteamMover to place them on the SSD. The point was I couldn't understand where all my space had gone. Even with 41.1GB free, it's still odd that 79GB is taken up by source games (which SteamMover won't move), Win7, a few Adobe apps and some other apps. Times are changing I guess and program's getting huge.
I use tuneup utilities on my pc, one of the programs it has is a disk space analyser. It can give a list of the largest individual files on the disk/folder and largest folders. Great for trimming things down. I didnt realise that one of my blu-ray encoding jobs decided to leave the temp files on my system drive, 34GB of useless ones and zeros there!
