Windows 7 Taking up 60GB on bootcamp?

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Windows 7 Taking up 60GB on bootcamp?

So pretty much, I installed Windows 7 on my MacBook 2014 13 inch non-retina (i think its non-retina) and it worked quite badly at first, and that was the drivers problem, so i reinstalled it, this time working perfectly until I started running out of space so I decided to reinstall to make more space. So I installed it a 3rd time and set the Partition as large as I could ( at that time it was 116 GB) and I installed all the drivers, etc. So I naturally went on to set up Steam and download some games, so I checked how much space I had on the Windows 7 Bootcamp partition. I had 36 GB left out of what it said was 108 GB. I hadn't installed anything else. So it must be Windows 7 taking up about 60-70 GB of space yet it should only take up at most 30!

Please help me with this because otherwise I cant install all my only-windows-compatible games that I have PAID for and cant refund now ;-; please halp

-Potatoes4lyfe

MacBook Pro, Windows 7

Posted on Feb 9, 2016 2:29 AM

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Answer 1

Loner T

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Feb 9, 2016 2:51 PM in response to Potatoes 4 lyfe

There are two large files (derived based on the RAM installed on your Mac). Here is an example from the OSX Terminal looking at the Bootcamp volume. Please notice the last two files are 28Gb in total size.

ls -lgh /Volumes/rMBPBCMP/

total 58393712

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 0B Feb 10 2014 $Recycle.Bin

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 0B Aug 10 2014 93bda1828a11a8c4e5918a82

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 8.0K Feb 10 2014 BOOTSECT.BAK

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 4.0K Apr 3 2015 Boot

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 0B Jul 14 2009 Documents and Settings

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 0B Feb 10 2014 Intel

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 0B Aug 3 2015 NVIDIA

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 0B Jul 13 2009 PerfLogs

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 8.0K Sep 28 14:58 Program Files

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 8.0K Sep 28 14:55 Program Files (x86)

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 4.0K Sep 28 14:58 ProgramData

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 0B Feb 10 2014 Recovery

drwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 8.0K Jan 31 16:53 System Volume Information

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 4.0K Aug 3 2015 Users

drwxr-xr-x 1 staff 16K Aug 18 10:40 Windows

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 375K Nov 20 2010 bootmgr

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 12G Feb 2 23:12 hiberfil.sys

-rwxr-xr-x@ 1 staff 16G Feb 2 23:12 pagefile.sys

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Answer 2

Feb 10, 2016 2:57 AM in response to Loner T

Ah yes, I have tried this, I have deleted the hiberfil.sys which made about 3GB of space and the pagefile.sys has made about 4GB of space, but other than that I don't know why its taking up so much space. Also I only just installed windows a few days ago so I am pretty new to the operating system. I have looked around a bit and it seems everyone else has no problem or it got solved by deleting pagefile and hiberfil.

Any help is much appreciated.

-Potatoes are 4 lyfe

P.S. I have seen you around a bit on the forums Loner T and you seem like you know what you are doing!

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Answer 3

Feb 10, 2016 3:12 AM in response to Potatoes 4 lyfe

I was just searching through my files and found out that steam was unusually taking up 80 GB! I only have Arma 3 installed and about 10 GB of workshop (arma 3 + workshop = about 22GB) so I dont know why it is taking up so much

Had to Uninstall Payday 2 sadly, but it made up 24 GB of space!

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Answer 4

Loner T

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Feb 10, 2016 5:57 AM in response to Potatoes 4 lyfe

Do you want to consider installing all your games on a fast external disk? A Thunderbolt or USB3 will work.

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