IT Help - Hardrive Space Issues

[Conrad]

At the moment my 70gb hardrive is completely full.

 

I'm having to delete something whenever I download. The trouble is that I've only got 35Ggb being used in My Documents, where is the other 35gb allocated?

 

I've looked at all my programs in Contol Panel and they come to 2gb max as I have very little software and no games - I mainly just surf and burn DVD's. So where is the other 30+gb being used?

 

Also as well, I'm supposed to have an 80 GB hardrive on my laptop (an S-ATA HDD??).

 

Yet when I look in My Computer it says I only have 69.7GB. Why is this? Have I been short changed by PC World?

[Glosphil]

You might have some space tied up in your temp directories, and in your temp internet folders. Try running cleanup in properties of the drive. Sounds silly too, but some people forget to empty their recycle bin ?

 

That laptop might have a recovery partition on it using up some of the space. Look in control panel/admin tools/compuyer manager/disk management to see your drive and partition info.

 

You machine must be running dog slow full up like that. I always keep 50% free on my main drive so it defrags properly.

[michael]

Buy an external USB drive and shift the 35GB of porn onto that.

[Conrad]

Buy an external USB drive and shift the 35GB of porn onto that.

 

:d How'd you guess?

 

Nar, that's all in My Documents - only got about 3gb of that.

 

I just did a disk cleanup and it only found 3425kb! My recycle bin is empty and I don't have a partitioned drive either.

 

Where has it all gone?

 

Despite my full drive my laptop still runs pretty quick - never noticed any slowdown.

[MrRalphMan]

Looks like you're going to have to go hunting.

 

Start in the root of the C Drive (Only drive right?) and check for large files there.

Then select the first DIR, right click and choose properties.

This will show you how much data is in the dir and it's sub dirs. I'm assuming that this is how you found out what is in the 'My Documents' folder.

 

Then it's a case of digging deeper and deeper into the folders that have many GB in them.

 

I'd first start by checking the TEMP directories.

 

C:\temp

C:\windows\temp

C:\Documents and Settings\\Local Settings\Temp

 

I would trust Drive Clean up to do anything useful, apart from getting rid of your internet cache and cookies, making browsing that much more painful.

 

Hope that helps a bit.