Re: Hard drive capacity decimated - help please

From: johnf (john_f_at_bigREMOVEpond.net.au)
Date: 01/28/05 

Date: Fri, 28 Jan 2005 12:17:34 +1100

The first think I would do is something quite passive, i.e. just have a look
only at what is taking up un-needed space.
Download "sequoiaview" from http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/
That will give you a full breakdown on everything on your PC, the larger the
file/folder, the larger the block shown in sequoiaview - hover the mouse
over the larger ones & it will tell you where it is, what its called & the
size.
To use a hackneyed phrase - 'best thing since sliced bread' - & it can't
make any changes to your programs! 

--
johnf
> PC specs: Pentium 4, 512 MB memory, 40 GB hard drive with Windows XP
> Home
>
> Last week I had 85% of my hard drive capacity and for some unknown
> reason now  I show 90% of the hard drive as used!
>
> I am at a loss to explain what has caused this dramatic change. I
> haven't done anything new or unusual in the past week.
>
> I had hoped that I could run system restore in the event that some
> program or its executable has gone wild and get back to an earlier
> state but System Recovery will not run because of a virtual memory
> problem?
>
> I would appreciate any input or guidance on how I can learn what is
> responsible for this over utilization, or what steps I might take to
> find and remedy theis situation.
>
> I have run two different full virus scans and nothing was found.
>
> I have run two different disk cleanup utilities
>
> I have run defrag and error checking utilities
>
> Should I examine every program folder and subfolder to look for
> excessive file sizes?
>
> I would appreciate any input or guidance on how I can learn what may
> be responsible for this over utilization, or what steps I might take
> to find and remedy this situation.
>
> Thanks for any assistance.
>
> Mary