Lost 8GB !!!

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I Just ran disk defragmentor on windows 7 home premium(64bit) earlier my free space on c drive was 197gb which has now reduced to 189 gb!! i tried to run disk cleanup number of times cleaning the restore point and shadow copies but it doesnt help. it still show 189 GB.
What could possibly went wrong? i even ran disk defragmentor again but then also no use.

^install tuneup utilities & check with disk space explorer for each folder & file size in C:

maybe hibernation file was deleted prior to disk defrag. but still that shouldn't account for the 8Gb free space.

or it can be some old windows installation file, if there were any.

Sam said:
maybe hibernation file was deleted prior to disk defrag. but still that shouldn't account for the 8Gb free space.

or it can be some old windows installation file, if there were any.

so what do u suggest?

did you have some windows.old folder in your system drive? how much ram you have?

problem is solved..there were few backup files which windows was not showing.. finally used tuneup and deleted them..
thanks guys for ur replies..