Hello people. New on the forum 
I have a computer with two internal hard drives. One simple 1Tb HDD where I install everything I have, from softwares to games. And I have a 32Gb SSD where I installed WIN7.
Unfortunatly Win7 seems to be eating 21Gb of that SSD (as seen in the Windows repertory folder located in the C: Drive (which is the SSD) ). Not mentioning a 32Gb drive only has 29,5Gb working space. So I originally only have 8.5Gb of free space.
Now including the Hibernation file which is approximately 6Gb, I have 2,5Gb free. Until a few days ago the free space balanced between 2.5 and 3Gb. Good enough for me, except some times my graphic work won't load because I already have too many projects open, but I can handle such issues properly. It doesn't bother me. Now what REALLY bothers me is that after an Avast Update I saw my free spaced squizzed down to 1,3Gb ... I rebooted thinking it's only the memory, but after a reboot I only had 300mb left. And after another reboot, only 200mb left ... and now I can't free any more space. I used Ccleaner as usual, but it can't find me more space to free ... So I uninstalled Avast thinking it must be a log file or something ... but i just retrieved the free space Avast was taking when installed ... so now I think of ghost files. See I was in tunisia for a month, and in Tunisia worms, Trojans and viruses aren't common they are everywhere. I got hacked multiple times during this month, just by login on Fb or so. Even got phished when using a public internet connection in a coffee. I mean I spent a month building security on my PC. Still a few days before a leave I got one of my external HDD infected by a virus that prevented me from accessing any folders from that drive. It got blocked by avast and microsoft security essentials instantly when I connected it back to my laptop (infected from a public computer where I have to go to get an internet connection. They forbid people to use their own machines, so I had to connect an eternal drive to retrieve some important files to my laptop), I finally cleaned the virus using UsbFIX, got it vaccinated also using the same program.
But today I think my laptop may have been infected by this virus even if full and deep virus scans dont find anything. I never fully trust an Anti Virus, and I think the virus might have made his way through my computer because now I have some folders on the C drive that cant be accessed such as pictures, videos etc, but I can access them if I use an alternate path or something. It says the access is denied because it can't find the location of the folder. It's behaving exactly the same as the virus that infected my external drive.
Now I tried performing a boot up scan to get rid of any virus stuck in my memory, but the scan took like ... 15s and after the boot up nothing had changed, folders still unaccessable.
I checked every folder in the Local Disk C: (the SSD), there IS a hole of 2.4 something GB. The amount of free space SHOULD be 2.5Gb ... but I suppose there are some ghost files ? What is it ? Is my SSD used by a warez or other hackers for those ridiculous 2.5Gb ?
I got rid of Avast already and can't reinstall it since it tells me I don't have enough free space anymore ... When Firefox is closed, when everything is closed except Skype and dropbox and the firewalls, I have 564MB left today since I uninstalled Avast. I performed a Wipe Free space via Ccleaner but couldnt get much more.
I am today BEGGING for help. I need to retrieve at least those 2.5Gb, it's VITAL for this laptop. So please if any of you have any idea, help me :'( !!!
EDIT : I temporarly got rid of the Hibernation file using a cmd line. But I'm the kind of person who uses hibernation as I travel a lot. So it's a pretty short term solution while I find someone to help me.
I have a computer with two internal hard drives. One simple 1Tb HDD where I install everything I have, from softwares to games. And I have a 32Gb SSD where I installed WIN7.
Unfortunatly Win7 seems to be eating 21Gb of that SSD (as seen in the Windows repertory folder located in the C: Drive (which is the SSD) ). Not mentioning a 32Gb drive only has 29,5Gb working space. So I originally only have 8.5Gb of free space.
Now including the Hibernation file which is approximately 6Gb, I have 2,5Gb free. Until a few days ago the free space balanced between 2.5 and 3Gb. Good enough for me, except some times my graphic work won't load because I already have too many projects open, but I can handle such issues properly. It doesn't bother me. Now what REALLY bothers me is that after an Avast Update I saw my free spaced squizzed down to 1,3Gb ... I rebooted thinking it's only the memory, but after a reboot I only had 300mb left. And after another reboot, only 200mb left ... and now I can't free any more space. I used Ccleaner as usual, but it can't find me more space to free ... So I uninstalled Avast thinking it must be a log file or something ... but i just retrieved the free space Avast was taking when installed ... so now I think of ghost files. See I was in tunisia for a month, and in Tunisia worms, Trojans and viruses aren't common they are everywhere. I got hacked multiple times during this month, just by login on Fb or so. Even got phished when using a public internet connection in a coffee. I mean I spent a month building security on my PC. Still a few days before a leave I got one of my external HDD infected by a virus that prevented me from accessing any folders from that drive. It got blocked by avast and microsoft security essentials instantly when I connected it back to my laptop (infected from a public computer where I have to go to get an internet connection. They forbid people to use their own machines, so I had to connect an eternal drive to retrieve some important files to my laptop), I finally cleaned the virus using UsbFIX, got it vaccinated also using the same program.
But today I think my laptop may have been infected by this virus even if full and deep virus scans dont find anything. I never fully trust an Anti Virus, and I think the virus might have made his way through my computer because now I have some folders on the C drive that cant be accessed such as pictures, videos etc, but I can access them if I use an alternate path or something. It says the access is denied because it can't find the location of the folder. It's behaving exactly the same as the virus that infected my external drive.
Now I tried performing a boot up scan to get rid of any virus stuck in my memory, but the scan took like ... 15s and after the boot up nothing had changed, folders still unaccessable.
I checked every folder in the Local Disk C: (the SSD), there IS a hole of 2.4 something GB. The amount of free space SHOULD be 2.5Gb ... but I suppose there are some ghost files ? What is it ? Is my SSD used by a warez or other hackers for those ridiculous 2.5Gb ?
I got rid of Avast already and can't reinstall it since it tells me I don't have enough free space anymore ... When Firefox is closed, when everything is closed except Skype and dropbox and the firewalls, I have 564MB left today since I uninstalled Avast. I performed a Wipe Free space via Ccleaner but couldnt get much more.
I am today BEGGING for help. I need to retrieve at least those 2.5Gb, it's VITAL for this laptop. So please if any of you have any idea, help me :'( !!!
EDIT : I temporarly got rid of the Hibernation file using a cmd line. But I'm the kind of person who uses hibernation as I travel a lot. So it's a pretty short term solution while I find someone to help me.
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