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Diving about my comptuer, I've discovered I've about 4 Gb of space unaccounted for on my OS partition. Anyone got any good tools for recovering this missing space? Don't really want to nuke the OS if I can help it

(It's not in hidden folders)

start/run

chkdsk c: /F /R

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profit

Hehulk wrote:Diving about my comptuer, I've discovered I've about 4 Gb of space unaccounted for on my OS partition. Anyone got any good tools for recovering this missing space? Don't really want to nuke the OS if I can help it

(It's not in hidden folders)

empty your recycle bin?

could be paging file?

It's not the recycle bin

How do I check paging settings?

Fear wrote:start/run

chkdsk c: /F /R

Cheers, but it doesn't seem to have had any effect

The c didn't need to be capalized?

Install WinDirStat and you'll quickly see where the data is.

my computer > properties > advanced > performance > advanced > Virtual memory.

Ah ha...

I've got two files called hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys taking up a total of 4gb that I can't see at all (Hidden or no), and being .sys files I'm going go out on a limb and assume that deleting = bad

hiberfil.sys is something to do with hibernation, disable it (it'll eat as much drive space as you have ram)

Also, if you use system restore, I'd suggest cleaning your restore points up occasionally, might save a few gig.

And some quick googling tells me that pagefile.sys is to do with virtual memory, and if you've got lots of RAM it's ok to downsize/disable it, which I've just done.

Cheers guys

Dr. kitteny berk wrote:hiberfil.sys is something to do with hibernation, disable it (it'll eat as much drive space as you have ram)

Also, if you use system restore, I'd suggest cleaning your restore points up occasionally, might save a few gig.

you disable it in the Power Options dialog box.

So google told me, thanks though