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Hi,
I have a 20 gig hard drive in my comp. Now when i bought the comp it has already divided it so it is Drive C:\ = 14.9 gig and drive D:\ = 3.71 gig. Now, i donw knowwhat could possibly be installed on my computer but I only have 600 MB free space in my C drive. I know i have MOHAA installed and a few other programs but I know they dont take more than 3Gigs of space. Can u please help me find out how the rest of the memory is being used?
Thxn in advance,
DP
Have you tried clearing out your temp directories? Go into the Add/Remove applicaiton in Control Panel and check to see if maybe some other apps or games might be installed that are taking up a lot of space. I know games these days seem to range from 1.5GB to 3GB in size, so a few of those plus having Windows (which is around 1.7GB typically) and Office (which usually is around 500MB) can really eat up a hard drive these days.
Plus what about email attachments? Email attachments might be small in size (due to the limits on attachments by servers these days) but all the "little" stuff can really add up.
Do you use any Peer To Peer software? Another good source of sucking up hard drive space.
Just a thought...
~AciD
Empty your trashcan and clear your temporary internet files. Also check how big your pagefile (virtual memory) is.
What you could do if you want to figure out where it all went, you could use a program such as Folder Size. Just install and run to see where it all is. You could have a defective hard drive too though, I had the same problem, I took it to a computer repair store, they said one of the cycles burnt out or something like that.
Hope this helps
I did all that and it only gave me an extra 1 gig....there's still about 10 gigs missing, i have another guest user in this comp. Would deleting that user give me more space?
Do you have system-restore turned on ?
Windows XP tends to make the folder 'system value information'(used for system restore) rather big.
If system restore is turned on you can still right click the folder and check its size using properties, or offcourse check the size from the cli.
Deleting the guest account will only free up 50-100mb
A good way (at least, the way I do it) is to go to the c: and right click on each folder in turn, and click on properties.
It should eventually count up the total size of the folder and sub folders (least it does with 2000 and below... hope it's the same in XP ;)
Basically find which folder is the biggest, go into it, and check the sub-folders the same way. Make sure everything that is supposed to be there is there, you'll probably find that there's a few games you installed a while ago that you forgot to uninstall (or perhaps the game saved games didn't uninstall, that's a popular one since most uninstall apps won't touch those).
No deleting an Account shoulndt. You might just want to make just 1 big partition if you arent using that 3 gig partition for nothing, i'm not sure why you would need it in XP. How long have you had it? I'm thinkin a format is in store but i dont know that many details of your problem. Have you ran scandisk and defgrag? What kind of hard drive is it?
It depends on what's in the account. If it's a "public" or family computer, there might be users storing large files on it. MP3s, image files, etc. I wouldn't go just deleting a user's account until you look through it! I would highly suggest doing what Wryth said, and if it happens to be a user or users you might want to talk to those people and find out what they could get ride of. Nothing else maybe the drive did go bad... how long have you had the computer?
I do remember one time at work when they were messing about with the domains, and had to switch our user accounts over, and somehow managed to create two user accounts, duplicating the common files, including the desktop. At the time I had a number of huge files on my desktop, which resulted in a couple of gig of 'lost' space till I tracked it down (with the above method). If the guest account was created as a duplicate, it might be the cause... or at least one cause, since I doubt he's been keeping 30 Gb of files on his desktop :P
That sounds highly unlikable. What kind of hard drive do you have dark pheonix?
not sure...just a regular 20 gig hard drive lol
how do i find out without opening up my box?
My D drive is packed with stuff that I NEVER use....i think its like a backup of windows or someting who knows....its full of .cab files and all kinds of folders, should I just delete them all, i doubt that my comp boots from drive D, this way i can use that partition for stuff that I actually use.
open my computer...right click C: drive and go to hardware...it'll have your CD drives and Hard Drive.
Well was a it a brand name computer, what year?
and it has a folder about 1gig big which is called CPWDRV. I have the same thing on drive C and also I have another folder on C which is called CPQS.
It sounds like you have a Compaq or something where they partition the drive and the D: drive is actually part of the restore feature. That's probably why its full. I would watch... but that's just a thought unless you had someone setup your computer for you?
I have those 2 folders In C which don take much space but in D:, one of them is 1.05 gig and then there's a folder name "DATA" which is 1.8 gig. it was a refurbished comp for 300 bucks lol :) 1.2 ghz. it came with these settings
it is a Compaq. Also the type of the hard drive is ST320410A
20 gig, 12% would take up 2.4 gig by default.Quote:
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For drives greater than 4Gb, System Restore takes up to 12% of the disk space by default to store the restore point information in its data store.
Along with the other things listed (perhaps your computer is installed with the /makelocalsource option) this could make sence.
Cheers
noODLe
Yeah because the trash/temp stuff you deleted which is a gig, those two folders you found, and the system restore would equal around 6.5GB... plus the size of your page file changing could be another 500MB and if the actual system restore was more, you're really getting up there.
here's another thought, did your system come with XP or did you upgrade?
Sounds like you just need to back your stuff up onto CDs, put the XP CD in, delete those partitions, and then go through and install a clean version of XP to get ride of all the crap!
There is a nice little tool called Treesize available on the web. It gives you a nice graphical view of all the directories/folders/files and allows you to easily see which directories are the space hogs. I think its free and it can be found easily through google, downloads.com, etc... I have used this several times on various clients of mine and find it very intuitive and like it.
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Thank you very much everybody. I really appreciate it
yeh now ur gettin it acid...hell with deleting lil stuff..that wont add up to that much memory...u must have missed my posts as all u have when i said get rid of the extra partition and format??? Read other posts before postin ur reply cuz the same thing might already be posted.
Sorry about that deftones12, plus have skipped over that...
But that is always my solution to any problem, or when I feel my computer is becoming "slow"... just do a nice format/reload
yeh i need to redo mine pretty soon...just a hassle when i have to back everything up and keep it all organized...beats redoing a server though 'eh
On a side note, do you have Indexing Service turned on? If so, you might want to turn it off. You might also want to delete all of the files contained in c:\windows\prefetch. This may or may not free up a lot of space, but worth a try I guess.
Also make sure to delete the temp folder files for each account (guests, admin, etc).
You could also try doing a search through start>search>for files or folders, and then having it search for all large files/folders.