Re: Hard drive free space gone

Go to Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View, Advanced Settings and verify that the box before "Show hidden files and folders" is checked and "Hide protected operating system files " is unchecked. You may need to scroll down to see the second item. You should also make certain that the
box before "Hide extensions for known file types" is not checked. Next in Windows Explorer make sure View, Details is selected and then select View, Choose Details and check before Name, Type, Total Size, and Free Space.

To increase you free space on your XP partition select Start, All Programs, Accessories, System Tools, Disk CleanUp, More Options, System Restore and remove all but the latest System Restore points? Restore points can be quite large.

It is likely that an allocation of 12% has been made to System Restore on your C partition which is over generous. I would reduce it to 700 mb. Right click your My Computer icon on the Desktop and select System Restore. Place the cursor on your C drive select Settings but this time find
the slider and drag it to the left until it reads 700 mb and exit. When you get to the Settings screen click on Apply and OK and exit.

Are you using any Norton utilities?

FileSize -a useful tool for use with Windows Explorer when investigating how disk space is being used.
http://markd.mvps.org/

The download link is not obvious. Click the here in the two sentences of the web page accessed through the link above. "I can't count the number of times someone has asked for this. So here is a module you can install that shows a Folder Size column in Explorer."

Note the Search option in Windows Explorer to search for files over 1 mb. You sort the result in order of size by clicking on size over the list of
files. Search My Computer ensuring you have selected Advanced Options and clicked on the box before Search System Folders, Search Hidden Files and Folders and Search Sub-Folders.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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Panic wrote:
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Somethings going on with my hard drive free space. I had 20GB free
and moved almost 20GB to my external USB drive and it still showed
only 20GB free space. I ran a defrag and it showed large block
areas of fragmented files but during defrag it only defragmented a
few. My free space was still only 20GB.

I ran disk check - fix and it didn't recover anymore free space. I
compressed C drive since it said it would provide 3GB more free
space. After compression it shows 11GB free.

Help! Any ideas? Is this a hard drive going bad or could it be a
virus?
I just tried to copy my C: drive (80GB) to my external hard drive
(200GB) and it hung up early saying "can't copy hiberfil: it is in
use, try closing program and try again (sic)". I went to my C: drive
and selected to show system files and found a file hiberfil.sys, a
little over 1GB in size. I then selected All folder/files and
deselected hiberfil.sys and it copied. Does that add any info on my
problem?

.

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