What Is Taking Up So Much Space?

Hello All,

A week or so ago, I tried to get some guidance on this concern I have, but
mainly...I just got ridiculed by a couple of the MVP's. Quite out of the
ordinary, since my experience in getting help here had been stellar up until
then. But I want to try again. So here goes:

At one time, when my computer was running very well, I had several hundred
audio files and at least 200 video files (comedies, not porn) on my hard
drive, along with all the usual downloads (little utilities, etc.), emails,
and Microsoft Flight Simulator (huge). At that state, my 40 gig hard drive
had approximately 11 gigs of space used up. I got that figure by right
clicking on Local Disk (C) and selecting properties. I'm nearly certain
that at that time, it was neither showing hidden files and folders, nor was
it showing operating system files.

Recently I had to do a re-format, re-install. I have absolutely no audio
files yet, nor any video files yet. I have downloaded a minimal amount of
little utilities, but DO have that huge Microsoft Flight Simulator
installed. But at this time, when I right click on Local Disk (C), it shows
12 gigs of hard drive space being used. Again, this time it is not showing
hidden files and folders, nor is it showing operating system files.
However, when I opt to show hidden files and folders, and to show operating
system files, the result is the same. It shows 12 gigs of hard drive are
being used.

And next....I took the advice of a user on this newsgroup and downloaded a
nifty little utility called JDiskReport that gives it's opinion of where
space is being taken up on the hard drive. It shows a total of 10.5 gigs of
space being used up. Of that 10.5 gigs...2.7 is taken up by Windows, 1.5
gig is taken up by hiberfil.sys and 2.0 gig is taken up by pagefile.sys. I
would have guessed that hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys are part of windows?
I admit...I just don't know, but they are shown as separate folders...not
necessarily part of Windows. If they ARE part of Windows, then the total of
those three would be 2.7+2.0+1.5=6.2 gigs of space for Windows. Is that
possible?

My question is this: With all the audio files, and video files no longer on
my computer, why is more hard drive space being taken up than before when
they WERE installed?

Maybe I don't even have a problem here. I just would like some reassurance.

Thanks for reading this, and thanks for any suggestions or advice.

Best Regards,
Danno




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