Re: What Is Taking Up So Much Space?
- From: "M and D" <m_and_d@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 1 Mar 2006 00:46:21 -0500
Like Shenan - and I - said: "I think you are worrying over nothing."
There are many variables that determine the size of an installation, and as a result there are hundreds of reasons why your installations could be different sizes. But you don't want to accept that. You're determined to make a computer fit into your logic.
More: You're drawing conclusions from some program you found. How much do you know about the particular methods your program uses? Do you know how many different programs there are that calculate disk space? Do you expect this newsgroup to know how they perform their calculations?
No wonder you're so frustrated.
Steven
"Shenan Stanley" <newshelper@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:OcoBJ6OPGHA.964@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Danno wrote:.
Screw it! I deleted the previous 3 system restore points and it
made little difference. By right clicking on LocalDisk(C), and
selecting properties, it shows now that the total space taken up is
10.5 Gigs. That little utility JDiskReport shows same...10.5 gig.
I dunno what's going on, but I'm pretty sure there are either
duplicated files (hard to imagine on a fresh re-format install),
or....I dunno what in hell is going on. Do I sound frustrated? Sorry
about that!
I look forward to any further suggestions.
I think you are worrying over nothing - as I stated in my previous post.
You are only using 26.25% of your hard disk drive.
Also - did you reboot after turning off System Restore?
(Wait - you didn't say you turned it off - you said you deleted the last
three - sounds like disk cleanup. Mys suggestion is to turn it off and
reboot. If there is nothing wrong with your system - you won't need it for
this experiement - and you can turn it back on and make a mnual restore
point immediately after checking the size of the files on the disk if you
like.)
You can free up hibernation space (that is as much as you have in RAM. So if
you have 1GB RAM, that is 1GB of space being taken up.. You stated the
hiberfil.sys files was 1.5GB in size.. You can get rid of that *if* you
actually do not use Hibernation - bringing you down to 9GB used. See my
previous response. That brings you down to only using 22.5% of your hard
drive.
You said your pagefile was using 2GB and your Windows directory was using
2.7GB. That's 4.7GB - or over 1/2 the space remaining if you get rid of the
hibernation file.
Where's the rest..? Easy to find out. I would bet in one of two places..
Open "My Computer" and open the "C" (Local Drive). Right-click on the
"Documents and Settings" folder and choose properties.. Wait for it to
calculate the space taken up and report that here.
Open "My Computer" and open the "C" (Local Drive). Right-click on the
"Program Files" folder and choose properties.. Wait for it to calculate the
space taken up and report that here.
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