Wipe free space back - easy solution

CCleaner for Windows
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I had a worse problem than the previous user. My computer (HP Pavillion w/Vista) crashed while running the Wipe free space (it crashed for another reason). It was wiping 288 GB of free space, when I started back I re-ran the CCcleaner, wipe free space, and it was wiping only 70 GB of free space!! Not to worry, I've had this problem before with Cleaners. I simply found a BIG BIG many GB file (288-70) GB on the root directory of C:\

DELETING that big file got back my 288 GB...

I hope this helps...

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Thanks for posting that civil, all contributions to the discussion are appreciated. It's now becoming clear from posts similar to and including yours, that the solution is to look for a pretty big file or files and delete them.

There has been some progress on this issue, as you can see here:

http://forum.piriform.com/index.php?s=&amp...st&p=131482

EDIT: Welcome to the forum by the way.