Lost space on ssd. What to do?

Question

Windows

Hello everyone, today I encountered a very strange behavior of my drive - plextor ssd 120gb (px 128). I deleted 40 GB from the screw, without transferring it to the trash, but the place did not increase. I tried to search for it through windirstat and other tools - it shows that 70 GB is occupied, 10 is free, and 40 (more precisely 35 somewhere) disappeared forever. I ran to scan the screw through the scanner built into windows 10 - nothing has changed.
No need to write about hidden files, recycle bin or swap file. In fact, now 70 GB are occupied on the screw, 10 are free, and only 120. 40 GB have disappeared completely, but they are not part of the swap file or hidden files. They are simply considered always busy.
This is the first time I've seen this and I don't know what to do.

Answer 1

Lost space on ssd. What to do?

Contact the police, write a statement about the loss, tell the signs of the missing place.

I deleted 40 GB from the screw, without transferring it to the trash, but the place did not increase.

And should it? You just deleted one of the data mount points, the data is still there, and is stored in the shadow copy.

No need to write about hidden files, recycle bin or swap file. In fact, now 70 GB are occupied on the screw, 10 are free, and only 120. 40 GB have disappeared completely, but they are not part of the swap file or hidden files.

What's in it?
You can write a 1kb file to a disk, which will take 100GB - it will take 100GB on the disk, and the sum of all files is 1kb.
You can write a bunch of files with a total size of 500GB to a 100GB disk, and the disk will be almost empty.
In your case, most likely everything is simpler - restore points take up space, turn off recovery and delete all points.

Answer 2

How are things in disk manager? Have you tried chkdsk /f as admin?

Answer 3

Just ran into this problem. I also deleted the program for 20GB, but the place did not appear. SSD 120 - empty in fact, even formatted, this is the second SSD for games and large programs to run quickly. So, it shows that 12GB is occupied. The paging file has been disabled on this drive. Restore points removed. And I repeat, it is empty - in general.
The following helped: I went into the installation of the swap file, set min 1000mb max 2000mb. Ask. A message popped up, "replace the swap file?". I press OK and 12GB reappeared.