Re: Hard drive free space gone

"Gerry Cornell" <gcjc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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.

OK. I show all files hidden and otherwise. I did a Windows search for *.*
on my C: drive and selected to show all files and folders, hidden or not.
Then I clicked on the Size column to list them by size. If have 6 files
just over 1GB that seem to be OK. Some large movie conversion files and
hiberfil.sys.

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.

OK. Sys Restore was using 9GB and I slid it to the minimum 1% or 1GB.
No increase in C: disk free space.

Are you using any Norton utilities?

I have NIS.

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.

OK. As I reported above I used the Search function looking at hidden files
and folders and found no obvious culprits.

The most puzzling thing about my problem is that removing large amounts of
data (up to 20GB) and moving them to my external hard drive does not free up
disk space.

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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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FCA
Stourport, England
Enquire, plan and execute
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Panic wrote:
"Panic" <smartwit@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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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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