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used space on hd

  • 18-08-2006 2:24pm
    #1
    themole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭


    I recently reinstalled win xp pro.

    My hd is 80gb, which formatted is 74.4 gb.

    The prob i am having is that of the 74.4 gb 62.5gb is showing up as free.
    So that gives me 11.9gb of files. but when i select all the files in my hd it gives me a size of 4.5gb.

    I could understand if there was a small difference due to hidden files etc, but not that much.

    Any ideas?


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  • #2
    hshortt
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,587 ✭✭✭hshortt


    Open My Computer, click on tools, then select folder options. Click the View Tab, Under 'hidden files and folders' select 'Show all Files', move a little lower and unselect 'Hide Protected Operating System Files'

    Now Highlight all the files/folder on your C:\ Drive (Press Ctrl+A to select all), right click and choose properties. This will give you a clearer picture.

    Cheerio
    Howard


  • #3
    mr_disc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭mr_disc


    themole wrote:
    I recently reinstalled win xp pro.


    when u reinstalled , did u format the drive and put a fresh copy on ... or did u just install a parallel copy ?


  • #4
    themole
    Closed Accounts Posts: 888 ✭✭✭themole


    I already had show hidden files selected.

    when i unselected hide os files the size of the files on the c drive is now 5.88gb.

    still well short of the 11.9gb.

    I did a low level format using a linux live cd before instaling win xp.


  • #5
    jabberwock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 928 ✭✭✭jabberwock


    great program to use -> spacemonger. nice graphical display of any harddrive

    anyways. sound a bit like a big page file and system restore files


  • #6
    mr_disc
    Closed Accounts Posts: 654 ✭✭✭mr_disc


    maybe u have huge log files being generated by some program.... to check this do a serach on the drive of all files ( *.* ) and arrange the results by size.......


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  • #7
    jabberwock
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 928 ✭✭✭jabberwock


    advanced search with size - at least - 500Mb
    doing a full search on 11Gb would takes it time


  • #8
    kodute
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 829 ✭✭✭kodute


    do you have system restore enabled? doesnt this take like 12% of the drive space?


  • #9
    Capt'n Midnight
    Moderators, Recreation & Hobbies Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Technology & Internet Moderators Posts: 92,385 Mod ✭✭✭✭Capt'n Midnight


    windows also reserves space at the start of the drive if you are using NTFS

    If you are using FAT you hit allocation unit problems with a hard limit of between 32,000 and 64,000 files max - that's why FAT32 is used instead.


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