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Whats eating up my HDD space?


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So I am dual-booting Windows 7 with Consumer Preview of 8, and have been using 8 since day 1.

A few days ago, I noticed, that all of a sudden, the free space on D:/ where 7 is installed is only 12.00 KB. An icon on System tray notified me.

I was like, :s I haven't installed any software in it, and there was at least, at least 4 something GB space left.

I cleared 13 something GB of data instantly.

Today, I noticed, its back at 11.7 GB. I have no idea what is happening here. I haven't installed anything on it, since I am not using 7 at all.

What should I do to sort this out. :/

Any help will be appreciated. Thanks

Regards...

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Make sure you don't have any software that monitors your boot process installed. The log files created by such software if they are not turned off can eat up gigabytes of space.

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Use something like SpaceSniffer

http://www.uderzo.it...r/download.html

Its probably hibernation files and other suggestions above

Turn off hibernation by opening elevated command prompt, type powercfg -h off and press Enter

I did it. Do I need to do the following now?

The restore points it makes can take up a lot of drive space. You can make it take up less space by following this guide: http://www.howtogeek...e-in-windows-7/

How much space,in your view, should I leave?

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Total partition size is 60 GB

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Whats wrong with that?

Genius

Person A asks what's using his space. Someone offers a suggestion of System Restore using the space. Person B questions why System Restore was mentioned?

It's pretty damned straight forward. Person B has no idea about computing if he assumes System Restore doesn't use a LOT of space.

Genius.

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It all depends how many restore points you want to keep?

Lets say only one. A I am not using it, and I might even un-install it in near future.

Person A asks what's using his space. Someone offers a suggestion of System Restore using the space. Person B questions why System Restore was mentioned?

It's pretty damned straight forward. Person B has no idea about computing if he assumes System Restore doesn't use a LOT of space.

Genius.

I didn't knew that Windows can create multiple restore points at a time.

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I did it. Do I need to do the following now?

How much space,in your view, should I leave?

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Total partition size is 60 GB

You probably be fine with 1-2GB for the system restore, give the rest back to windows, or turn it off if you don't want it, but you won't have any restore points if something goes wrong

Also you can do the same for the pagefile, drop it down to 1GB or so, can't remember the recommended calculation, something like RAM size + half = pagefile

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