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October 6th, 2007, 09:03 PM
#1
Where has all my HD space gone?
I seem to be missing 45 GB of hard drive memory...
Any ideas? Do you think this just means I need to defrag.. badly?
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October 7th, 2007, 06:38 AM
#2
Check your restore points.
Found my laptop using 15gig !
Then do a disk cleanup on the drive, see what else you can dump.
Last edited by General Winters; October 7th, 2007 at 06:41 AM.
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October 7th, 2007, 10:25 AM
#3
You can download jdiskreport and run it that will show the largest to smallest files and there location.
common sense isn't all that common
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October 7th, 2007, 11:56 AM
#4
Originally Posted by General Winters
Check your restore points.
Found my laptop using 15gig !
Then do a disk cleanup on the drive, see what else you can dump.
Ah, I thought that might also be a problem.
But the system restore point I'm using is the one from day one!
I'll check and see how much space it's taking up.
Also: I did clear up 10-15gb in uncompressed video, which made up for a little bit of the space... but I really hope that my restore point isn't using 45GB.
......................
Just checked the system restore control panel, and it says a restore point was never even made.
Ran Jdiskreport and it didn't show me anything that I hadn't already learned by my extensive Right-Click -> Properties research.
I still shouldn't be using up this much HD space!
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October 7th, 2007, 12:10 PM
#5
The left screen shot shows the entire hard drive properties. The right shot shows the divx folder properties. Two different things.
How do you figure that you are missing 45 gig?
Friends don't let friends use Internet Explorer!
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October 7th, 2007, 01:07 PM
#6
Originally Posted by PC Solutions
The left screen shot shows the entire hard drive properties. The right shot shows the divx folder properties. Two different things.
How do you figure that you are missing 45 gig?
I selected all files and folders in my C:\ drive - the highest of which alphabetically just so happened to be my divx folder
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October 7th, 2007, 01:44 PM
#7
Make sure system files are not hidden.
In addition meta files will not be shown in Explorer so there will always be a difference.
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October 7th, 2007, 03:04 PM
#8
Originally Posted by ua549
Make sure system files are not hidden.
In addition meta files will not be shown in Explorer so there will always be a difference.
I'm not exactly sure what Meta files are, but do you think they could take up 40gb of disk space?
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October 7th, 2007, 03:34 PM
#9
Metafile
A file that contains other files or information that describes another file.
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