Hard Drive Capacity Not Adding Up

gaza4

hey guys, ran into a problem exporting a video file tonight. an error came up saying i had run out of memory. sure enough my c drive was down to about half a GB of free space left. first off i didnt think the space on my c drive (120GB SSD for OS and other software) was even being used since i was saving the video to another internal drive. anyway thats not the issue.

when i select my c drives properties directly it says i have 107GB used and 4.48GB remaining ( i did some cleaning after my low memory discovery). however when i go into my c drive and highlight all my folders and access properties it says they only equate to 47.5GB. all hidden folders are shown too. (dunno if they show there size when not visible...)

so where is this other 60GB hiding??? its space i wouldnt mind reclaiming somehow...

the image below shows my 2 folder properties windows i mentioned...

Overheal

Because Windows Explorer is ****. Use this. You will find your missing space, one way or another.

http://windirstat.info/

gaza4

Overheal wrote: »

Because Windows Explorer is ****. Use this. You will find your missing space, one way or another.

http://windirstat.info/

Thanks downloaded that program there. it says 54% of my HD is taken up by 2 .sys files. pagefile.sys (44.1GB) and hiberfil.sys (12GB)

What are these files and are they safe to remove???

aN.Droid

gaza4 wrote: »

Thanks downloaded that program there. it says 54% of my HD is taken up by 2 .sys files. pagefile.sys (44.1GB) and hiberfil.sys (12GB)

What are these files and are they safe to remove???

pagefile.sys is your virtual ram

if you follow this guide you can clear it.

_AVALANCHE_

Depends...how much RAM have ya, if you have 4GB or more you can turn off paging file (or move it to HDD), don't know about the other one.

Read this and this (Top guide this, lots of SSD tweaks)

_AVALANCHE_

gaza4 wrote: »

hiberfil.sys (12GB)

This is just hibernate. Shrink it or delete it.

Seans guide (above) has tutorial for it aswell.

gaza4

Limericks wrote: »

pagefile.sys is your virtual ram

if you follow this guide you can clear it.

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

Depends...how much RAM have ya, if you have 4GB or more you can turn off paging file (or move it to HDD), don't know about the other one.

Read this and this (Top guide this, lots of SSD tweaks)

well i have 16GB RAM so i should be ok!!! lol

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

This is just hibernate. Shrink it or delete it.

Seans guide (above) has tutorial for it aswell.

thanks guys, i'll get though all those links tomorrow, should get me sorted. i'll report back later...

_AVALANCHE_

gaza4 wrote: »

well i have 16GB RAM so i should be ok!!!

Yep, loads...as long as you aren't running something like CAD that would actually use all of that if you let it you wont have a problem. If you are, just move it to your HDD so it doesn't start crashing on ya.

Torqay

If paging is required for some reason or other, with 16 GB RAM I'd create a RAM disk and move pagefile sys there.

gaza4

_AVALANCHE_ wrote: »

Yep, loads...as long as you aren't running something like CAD that would actually use all of that if you let it you wont have a problem. If you are, just move it to your HDD so it doesn't start crashing on ya.

Running Premiere Pro mainly and Adobe recommends 4GB RAM to run it. can i simply just drag and drop the pagefile from my SSD to my HDD??? any specific location for it???

Torqay wrote: »

If paging is required for some reason or other, with 16 GB RAM I'd create a RAM disk and move pagefile sys there.

by that do ya mean add a new hard drive just for the pagefile??? as above is it a simple drag drop process???

yoyo

gaza4 wrote: »

Running Premiere Pro mainly and Adobe recommends 4GB RAM to run it. can i simply just drag and drop the pagefile from my SSD to my HDD??? any specific location for it???



by that do ya mean add a new hard drive just for the pagefile??? as above is it a simple drag drop process???

You can quite easily, see here

Nick

Torqay

gaza4 wrote: »

by that do ya mean add a new hard drive just for the pagefile???

By that I mean a RAM disk which will indeed appear as a physical drive in Computer/My Computer. It will use a portion of your system memory (RAM). Not only will it be insanely fast (even in comparison with the fastest available SSD), it will also greatly readuce the write access to your precious SSD and thus enhance its longevity.

_AVALANCHE_

Torqay wrote: »

If paging is required for some reason or other, with 16 GB RAM I'd create a RAM disk and move pagefile sys there.

Doing it this way ^^^ and following this vvv

Mark Russinovich, the the well known windows expert and author of the Sysinternals tools, says that if you want to optimize your pagefile size to fit your actual needs, you should follow a much different formula: The Minimum should be Peak Commit – Physical RAM, and the Maximum should be double that.


For example, if your system has 4GB of RAM and your peak memory usage was 5GB (including virtual memory), you should set your pagefile to at least 1GB and the maximum as 2GB to give you a buffer to keep you safe in case a RAM-hungry application needs it. If you have 8GB of RAM and a max 3GB of memory usage, you should still have a pagefile, but you would probably be fine with a 1 GB size. Note: If your system is configured for crash dumps you'll need to have a larger pagefile or Windows won't be able to write out the process memory in the event of a crash—though it's not very useful for most end-users.

4GB for Adobe and 3.5GB for usual stuff that would be running.

OP should set Pagefile RAM Disk to Min 1GB and Max 2GB??


4GB seems to be the freeware limit as far as I can see.

http://www.ocztechnologyforum.com/forum/showthread.php?63273-*-Windows-7-Ultimate-Tweaks-amp-Utilities-*&p=442160#post442160