01-03-2006, 10:56 PM
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I just lost 90Gigs of Storage! Where did it go?
Okay, so I'm dawdling around on the PC tonight and I check my C: to see if I've still got over 100Gigs left on my 160 Gig Hard Drive.
Lo and behold, I've only got 10.8 Gigs left! I have never had that much data on my hard drive. Any other suggestions is more than welcomed. Thanks!
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01-03-2006, 11:13 PM
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Temp files?
XP Restore data? Those are two common culprits; I turn off System Restore myself (since I use Ghost). Got|mp3?  j/kRun scandisk and check "scan for and attempt recovery of bad sectors". Could be bad sectors that are giving you incorrect disk usage data. |
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01-04-2006, 12:16 AM
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Yep. You can go to Disk Cleanup -> More Options -> Clean Up @ System Restore. While you're at it, download CCleaner.
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01-04-2006, 07:03 AM
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If you haven't yet, try a reboot as well. Never know it could be your swap file...
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01-05-2006, 01:57 PM
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download treesize pro and run that. That's the best way to find out how your hard drive is allocated.
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01-05-2006, 09:19 PM
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Thanks everyone. I'll be trying everything out...
I have Norton Partition Magic 8.0 that I ran, but it only shows how much space I've "used" and how much I have left. I hope the disk clean up will work. Should I defrag as well while I'm at it? I see a lot of red lines when it's analyzed... |
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01-05-2006, 10:47 PM
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are you using norton of any kind on your computer. Mostly norton system works on your computer. if you havn't done it yet. go to your recycle bin/ right click/ select remove norton protected files/ then click all. you should get all of your memory back!
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01-06-2006, 07:48 AM
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http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
Check out the top program... |
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01-06-2006, 11:29 AM
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yea, if you missing 90gigs norton recycler is prolly the culprit.
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01-09-2006, 08:24 PM
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Okay, it was totally my anti-virus software. I used Treesize and it was awesome!
Thanks for all the help!  |
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