Re: What Is Taking Up So Much Space?
- From: "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 28 Feb 2006 22:22:03 -0500
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Danno <reardone@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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
If you've left System Restore set to the default 12 % then
C:\System Volume Information could be taking up as much as 4.8
GB of hard drive space. When you check the size of this folder
does it say 0 bytes? If so, you might want to take a look at
this article:
How to gain access to the System Volume Information folder
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309531
Good luck
Nepatsfan
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