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Answer: Most likely because of swap-file.

Swap-files are used by windows to supplement your systems RAM. No matter how much RAM you have, its never enough for windows, so it takes chunks of your hard disk and uses them for short-term storage for stuff its currently working on.

If you have a lot of programs running in the background this can take over a gigabyte of hard disk space easily.

When displaying hard disk free space, windows doesnt take swap-files into account & thus it may show as having free space when in fact there isnt.

For the health of your hard disk, and to ensure good system performance, it is a good rule of thumb to always keep at least 10% free space on your hard disk. Filling it up to 99% or 100% can often cause data corruption.

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