Hard drive space?

Published on December 7, 2007 By Richard Mohler In Personal Computing

The other day I had 220 gb free space now it says 180 gb free. It's supposed to be 320 gb hard drive when I ordered it. Anyway there's no way I have 100gb's of stuff on there. Does anyone know what I can do to check things?

Comments (Page 3)

Richard Mohler

on Dec 07, 2007

I turned off system restore and restarted and also did a disk cleanup. Should you see the increase of 47gb's or not because I don't.. maybe a few gb's but not 47...The internal workings of a computer are way out of my league...

The__Goo

on Dec 08, 2007

open up task manager and take a screen shot of it try to get all you can and let me take a look

Astyanax

on Dec 08, 2007

Do you have System Recovery (System Restore) enabled? Over time that thing its very well known to take HUGE amounts of disk space.

Fuzzy Logic

on Dec 08, 2007

As well as System Restore, check out hibernation too. If you don't use it, turn it off. The hyberfil.sys file it creates can also get quite large.

Disturbedcomputer

on Dec 08, 2007

do you have any unallocated,space?
To see
Go to Start, Control Panel, Performance & Maintenance, Administrative Tools,Computer Management, Storage, Disk Management (Local) and to see what it shows.

note: the in red on some PC's may not be their in that case skip and proceed with (Administrative Tools)

Phoon

on Dec 08, 2007

i would be interested in seeing the results of using one of the tools we mentioned to identify the location of the large folders. We could give you more info if that were available. I personally would not disable system restore. It can be a valuable tool in the event of problems.

SirSmiley

on Dec 08, 2007

I have to agree on not disabling system restore it's a lot easier than mucking around in the recovery console and if you do end up in the console it can help sometimes.

Also, there's a better way than disabling hibernation. Lately, I've started to degrag only the most often used files which seems to speed things up plus it's a heck of a lot quicker than doing the drive.

Richard Mohler

on Dec 08, 2007

Did away with hibernation. Turned system restore back on after virus scan. (no viruses). Computer management says 288.04gb's 188gb's free 65%. Which tool Phoon? Goo-- Which part of task mgr? Thanks for all the help guys...

vStyler

on Dec 08, 2007

Drivescan from Stardock is perfect for finding FileHogs.

Richard Mohler

on Dec 08, 2007

Thanks..

AnneMarie

on Dec 08, 2007

I also found that in Vista that if you have system restore enabled it allows Windows to make restore points anytime it wants and they can take up some UNBLELIEVABLE space. There is an option to clean up restore points when you do a Disk Cleanup.

I am not sure if this helps at all Richard but I just wanted to share my bit of information I found.

Anne

Richard Mohler

on Dec 08, 2007

Yea I've done that kind of cleanup..To post a picture do you have to have a url?

Richard Mohler

on Dec 08, 2007

WWW Link Tree space..

The__Goo

on Dec 08, 2007

hey richard, you have MSN, AOL, ICQ or yahoo... add me to either one and i can help you out with this

MSN: gcdryden@hotmail.com
AIM(AOL): gcdryden
Yahoo: gcdryden
ICQ: 78786620

Richard Mohler

on Dec 08, 2007

Emailed you at hotmail.. Somehow I guess it adds up..

102gb's plus 42.7gb's for system restore 145gb's or so from 288 gb's total. I should have about 140 to 150gb's free space and somehow I have more 187 gb's, oh well.. Thought there was a problem guess not, sorry everyone. It just seemed like a few days ago I had over 220gb's free.. Thanks again..

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