Timeline for What may be causing C Drive storage increases of more than 20GB overnight?
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| Jul 24, 2023 at 3:56 | history | edited | music2myear | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jul 21, 2023 at 7:02 | vote | accept | Xlucidator | ||
| Jul 21, 2023 at 7:02 | answer | added | Xlucidator | timeline score: 1 | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 18:27 | history | edited | Xlucidator | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 14:21 | comment | added | Ramhound | @Elucidator-xrb - Try and disable hibernation. Windows 10 and Windows 11 by default supports hybrid sleep. I would also NOT try to put your machine to sleep, since 25GB in my opinion, is not enough space to dump everything in memory to disk. Based on the memory management error, I suspect you have a memory issue, and the storage space while a concern is likely not related to system crashing while booting. Without a precise English translation of WinDBG analysis output of the .dmp I can't help resolve your issue. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 14:16 | comment | added | Blindspots | A simple tool might be windirstat which will show you disk usage by folder and let you click through to see the usage by subfolder. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 13:38 | history | edited | Xlucidator | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 13:30 | comment | added | Destroy666 | I'm pretty sure it's not. As I wrote, I think your next step should be to use a better program to check folder sizes, run it also as admin to additionally avoid some potential permission problems, then there won't be any speculation. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 10:21 | history | edited | Xlucidator | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 10:17 | comment | added | Xlucidator |
@Destroy666 Oh, I've confirmed that its sleep not hibernation, and as we can see the hiberfil.sys did not changed. (So maybe hibernation is not the reason?
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 9:17 | comment | added | Joep van Steen | Open settings, type storage and use it to ID biggest space-mongers and clean them up, let the tool handle that, don't go manually delete. | |
| S Jun 2, 2023 at 5:28 | history | suggested | Kalamalka Kid | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 5:14 | comment | added | DrMoishe Pippik | Did an update complete overnight? If so, there might be a new folder, Windows.old, and the WinSxS folder may also have grown. Do not try to delete those folders or their contents manually. Instead, perform disk cleanup. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 4:00 | comment | added | Ramhound | What Windows Store applications, other than was preinstalled, specifically larger applications. | |
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 3:46 | comment | added | Destroy666 |
I thought about hibernation file too, but a) yyou mentioned sleep not hibernation (please confirm tht's the case) and b) both screens have that file (hiberfil.sys) with the same size, I don't think it'd randomly grow so much.
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| Jun 2, 2023 at 3:33 | comment | added | Xlucidator | thanks. And i've also looked into the Windows Event Viewer and there's no event during the sleep period. maybe i should focus on that warning/ hibernation file (but this situation just did not occurred in the past... ( Ꙭ) | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 3:12 | comment | added | Ramhound | "Is it caused by some kind of virus or just some settings?" - Unlikely; Extremely unlikely but the information you have provided isn't enough to determine what is using your disk space. A wild guess is the hibernation file. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 2:41 | comment | added | Destroy666 | Hello, why do you assume virus automatically? Do you really think a virus would love to make itself so obvious that it removes most of remaining disk space for no apparent reason? Anyways, try another app for disk visualization, e.g. WinDirStat, maybe it won't have that warning/error. | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 2:20 | comment | added | Jaromanda X | nothing weird, except maybe that warning? | |
| Jun 2, 2023 at 1:56 | history | edited | Destroy666 | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| S Jun 2, 2023 at 1:48 | history | asked | Xlucidator | CC BY-SA 4.0 |