System hard drive, taking 100 GB of space filling

I've had my laptop HD to 320 for about a month. Running Windows 7 Pro on a Lenovo ThinkPad T500. Intel core 2 duo T9600, 4 GB, 64-bit

I have 140 GB of files stored on its hard disk, but lately he has only demonstrated 30 GB space. The system takes about 150 GB of hard drive space and eat another GB or two every day (even if sometimes they come back).

Here is what I tried:

-Ran Norton, Avast and Malwarebyte s analyses - deleted some small cookies, but no real virus found by one of them.

-Disabled the system restore, got about 3 GB back.

-Checked disk defragmentation - all very good.

-Ran the cleaner disc and CC Cleaner, deleted a few hundred MB of Temp files, but obviously not 100 GB of value.

--Also conducted an audit of system long.

-Have used programs like space Sniffer and JDisk report to check disk allocation, size of use - all say that my files are only 140 GB.

-Have backed up on external hard drive, so it is safe for all.

Obviously, the next step seems to be to wipe everything clean and re - install the operating system, but of course, I got like this to be a last resort. So a last check to see if there is an easier explanation miss me.

Thank you all for the suggestions. Last week, not more disk space hard been mysteriously ate, but I still cannot be sure how get lost space back (other than re - install). Disk scanners say that about 120 GB hard disk are deposited with / assigned to 'unknown '. But at least the bleeding is stopped - now just to see if I can return the leg... Thanks again for the help!

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