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01-15-2007, 04:57 PM
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The Lavender Tie Just
Made It Obvious
Join Date: Aug 2003
Location: Bonita, CA (Hop, Skip, and a Jump from Tijuana, Mexico)
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Missing Hard Drive Space?
My friend has a 40GB Hard Drive. He has been trying to delete a whole bunch of stuff off of it because he is running out of space.
Only problem is, now that he's cleaned out everything he can think of, he has 12GB unaccounted for. The 3 Biggest pieces of software that are on that computer are Windows XP, Office 2003 Pro, and Norton SystemWorks 2005.
All of his documents and such add up to maybe 1GB.
Are there any programs that can be used to categorize what is using how much space on the hard drive?
Kind of like:
Windows XP: 1.5GB
Office 2003: 1.5GB
Norton SystemWorks 2005: 1GB
Nero Burning Rom: 300MB
Etc: GB
Stuff like that..
Thanks,
Rafster
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01-15-2007, 05:12 PM
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Fusion Brain Creator
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Colorado, but Canadian!
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what about the Add/Remove programs list and sort by file size? 
There is an advanced xp powertoy thing that is basically the same thing but it doesn't show size, just everything installed. I don't think you have 12gb of hidden programs though... That is odd. Could just be really fragged. Have you tried partitioning and then deleting temporary files using the "clean up system harddrive space" button on the harddrives property panel?
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01-15-2007, 07:31 PM
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Maximum Bitrate
Join Date: Oct 2006
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go to your system tools, and clear up the temporary files, and do the same for internet explorer.
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01-15-2007, 07:49 PM
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The Lavender Tie Just
Made It Obvious
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Quote: Originally Posted by 2k1Toaster  what about the Add/Remove programs list and sort by file size?
There is an advanced xp powertoy thing that is basically the same thing but it doesn't show size, just everything installed. I don't think you have 12gb of hidden programs though... That is odd. Could just be really fragged. Have you tried partitioning and then deleting temporary files using the "clean up system harddrive space" button on the harddrives property panel?
Tried all that... The first thing I told him to do was to go to Add/Remove and do by size... he says the only large things on there are Office and Norton....
We've gotten rid of all Temp and Temp Internet Files...
Still there's 12GB of Crap floating around somewhere and we can't find it...
Rafster
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01-15-2007, 08:02 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: May 2005
Location: Tampabay, Florida
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try spacemonger:
http://www.sixty-five.cc/download/
Third tab at the top is "Free Software" Click that and download Space Monger 1.4.0
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01-15-2007, 11:30 PM
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What can I say? I like serial.
Join Date: Mar 2004
Location: Florence Yall, BFKY
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System restore can easily take up that much space.
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01-16-2007, 12:13 AM
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The Lavender Tie Just
Made It Obvious
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Quote: Originally Posted by Pistolen08
Great it works!
It was all the System Restore Data...
Damn Windows...
Rafster
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01-16-2007, 12:58 AM
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Fusion Brain Creator
Join Date: Mar 2006
Location: Colorado, but Canadian!
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Quote: Originally Posted by Rafster Great it works!
It was all the System Restore Data...
Damn Windows...
Rafster
System restore took up 12Gb?! Holy crap. I thought maybe 4Gb max, but wow... M$ strikes again!
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01-16-2007, 01:43 AM
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The Lavender Tie Just
Made It Obvious
Join Date: Aug 2003
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Quote: Originally Posted by 2k1Toaster System restore took up 12Gb?! Holy crap. I thought maybe 4Gb max, but wow... M$ strikes again!
Well, he hadn't cleaned anything up in like 3 years...
Rafster
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01-16-2007, 01:27 PM
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Variable Bitrate
Join Date: Oct 2006
Location: Florida
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Yea spacemonger rocks.
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