Empty trash - where did my disk space go?

Hi all,
I recently just did a massive clearout of my HD and I threw about 150GB of various videos and what nots into the trash and then proceeded to click empty trash. However, after emptying the trash, I notice that I only had 160GB of space left (previously had 40GB before the clear out).
The question is, what happened to 30GB of my disk space?

In my humble opionion do not disable hibernation or reduce the size of the page file. Doing this will cause your computer and Windows to not run as designed. I know there are suggestions and explanations about how to do this, but doing so may cause issues.
If you need more disk space, use CampTune, or remove and reinstall Windows in a larger partition.

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