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| 639403 | 2008-02-11 05:16:00 | Hi Guys I am running XP on an acer Extensa 2000 with 514 MB of Ram, The 40 GB HD is partioned into two 20 GB drives. The computer was chocking so I cleared out a lot of files as the HD was just about full. When I check the properties of C Drive it tells me that I have 17.7 GB Used and 1.1 GB free. I have a few bells and whistle but NO movies, Music or Pictures(moved all to other drive). It is still slow so I checked the individual folders on C Drive. The three largest Folders are Windows (4.07 GB), Program Files (4.03 GB), and Documents and Settings (1.3 GB). The remaining folders total 1.06 GB. Added together that accounts for 10.46. In Windows Explorer if I open C: in the folders Pane and then select all the folders in the right hand pane it shows 10 GB used The root directory ony has a few KB of files SHOWING. Somewhere the are 7 GB lucking and I cant find them. Pagefile is set to 500 MB Any ideas would very appreciated. Cheers Colin |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 639404 | 2008-02-11 05:20:00 | Use ccleaner and see how much that removes. | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 639405 | 2008-02-11 05:21:00 | Double post | Speedy Gonzales (78) | ||
| 639406 | 2008-02-11 05:47:00 | System Restore files? Try turning System Restore off, then check your drive capacity (turning it off clears your restore points) support.microsoft.com |
feersumendjinn (64) | ||
| 639407 | 2008-02-11 05:58:00 | A good little program for seeing how all the space is being used on your system is WinDirStat (windirstat.info/). Freeware, 630KB and also portable (http:) (my favorite flavour of app). Give it a look after disabling System Restore (or deleting any old points). | sal (67) | ||
| 639408 | 2008-02-11 06:06:00 | Thanks guys. Speedy, Ran Ccleaner and it worked. 15.1 GB used. 3.7 GB free. Feer, Turned System restore off Got 13 GB used, 5.9 GB free. Once again thank you Now all I gotta do is figure out where th 3 GB are. Any ideas |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 639409 | 2008-02-11 06:18:00 | 3gb Page file and hibernation file perhaps, have you turned on "show hidden files" Pagefile and hyberfile.sys ? |
Morgenmuffel (187) | ||
| 639410 | 2008-02-11 06:22:00 | Thanks guys. Speedy, Ran Ccleaner and it worked. 15.1 GB used. 3.7 GB free. Feer, Turned System restore off Got 13 GB used, 5.9 GB free. Once again thank you Now all I gotta do is figure out where th 3 GB are. Any ideas First of all you probably do not have a 40 gigabyte drive. Drive manufacturers use 1000 bytes as a megabyte when in fact the figure should be 1024 as a megabyte. So you may have a drive that is 39062.5 Gigabytes. The very act of formatting a drive also loses usable space as you need boot sectors and partition tables. HTH. |
Sweep (90) | ||
| 639411 | 2008-02-11 06:31:00 | Thanks Sal. Ran the program.(found a lot in the Norton Protected Recycle Bin) Now getting 11.2 GB used and 7.7 GB free. I will settle for that. Thanks again to Speedy, Feer, and Sal |
Colpol (444) | ||
| 639412 | 2008-02-11 06:42:00 | First of all you probably do not have a 40 gigabyte drive. Drive manufacturers use 1000 bytes as a megabyte when in fact the figure should be 1024 as a megabyte. So you may have a drive that is 39062.5 Gigabytes. The very act of formatting a drive also loses usable space as you need boot sectors and partition tables. HTH. Thanksfor the info. As in the original post I have a 40 GB hard drive partioned into 2 X 20 GB. My concern was not the total GB (I knew about the reductions you mention)but the fact that the free space was very low and the sizes did not add up Running the programs suggested Increased the free space from 1.1 GB to 7.7 GB |
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