Help Smoke!

Smoke_Nova

<div class="IPBDescription">Find the hidden data</div> So, i'm kind of anal about how much space is on my hard drive, trying to always leave about 1/2 free.

I have a Hard Drive of 37.2 GB. I'll post the screenie of the pie chart of space used, space free and then how much space is used when every folder on the hard drive is selected.

Help me find the hidden stuff, and yes, I do have everything highlighted, even hidden files.

CommunistWithAGun

Convert to NTFS. Better performance and disk usage.

DiscoZombie

I use <a href='http://download.com.com/3000-2094-10214249.html?tag=lst-4-8' target='_blank'>Folder Size</a> to locate all the crud I wanna delete...

but, me -- I try to keep about... 50 megabytes of my 20 gig HD free =P

okay, maybe 200 or 300 megs -- enough for a cache... but space is definitely a prob for me...

if foldersize doesn't find your space -- maybe defrag? or, I dunno... *passes to the next poster*

Geminosity

turn off the windows restore function thingy.... that usually pinches a gig or two and as far as I'm concerned it's damn useless anyways <!--emo&:D--><img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin.gif'><!--endemo-->

Vulgar_Menace

If all else fails, try a RAID type 0

Bogglesteinsky

empty recycle bins, check virtual memory, defrag harddrive

esuna

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Also run cleanmgr (start > run > cleanmgr) to delete all temporary files.

Thansal

just pull up properties on each folder on your HDD

Start with root dirs and when ever you find a largish one work down till you can figgure out just why it is big

THEN KILL IT!!!!!

Burncycle

You can also delete your page file at each shutdown

Smoke_Nova

Do keep in mind that this is my entire hard drive data.

I've gone through each folder and figured out why.

I have Windows Backup thingy off.

I defragged a day ago, I ran clean mgr before I defragged. Can't think of what else would be taking up 6 GIGS.

Bogglesteinsky

a 6 gig file perhaps?

or 6 1 gig files?

DiscoZombie

seriously, download the file I linked to. It gives you the root structure of your hard drive, telling you how much stuff is in each subtree. like, it'll say C:\windows 4 gigs C:\program files 12 gigs etc, then you can click on those and see how much stuff is in each of those directories' sub directories...

I used the program and I tracked down like 6 gigs of stuff to my anti-virus folder (I think it was norton)... I imagine it was something that was cleaned or quarantined at some point... I've since switched to AVG so I deleted that muh.

Talesin

Definitely check your browser cache. If you're using IE, it allocates a PERCENTAGE of your storage space, rather than a set number of megs to the cache. On a moderately-sized drive, this can easily default to six gigs. Heck, noticing it and cleaning it out got me three back. And I'd only been using IE for a few browser-specific websites that absolutely required it for verification purposes.

(edit) Almost forgot. NTFS sucks, IMO. (/edit)

cshank4

Well for me space taken up mysteriously is usually .zip files that like to hide themselves, spy/adware, .exe's for games, mods and etc i dunno try checking for that stuff.

Smoke_Nova

I have my internet files set to about 1%. 1% of 40 gigs is 400 megs, not 6 gigs.

I'm gonna try Zombie's thingy. I'll report back when i'm done.

Zel

NTFS is horrible, youll hate it when you have a drive crash and have to try to get access to your data. by locking other users out of your folders it also locks out data recovery software from seeing your freakin documents folder.

pagefile = 1.5 GB hidden
temp = 2 GB hidden
system restore = 4 GB hidden.

kill the latter two and change pagefile to 1gb.

Lord_Fanny-MacH

Hehe, I have more music videos than your hard drive's capacity.

Smoke_Nova

Yeah, Windows backup was about 4 gigs.

pagefile is set to 1250
Temp...deleting.

ok, by Temp, what do you mean?

I have 23.4 gigs free now!

Pykmi

I have more anime than your HD capasity times 3 .

o.O

And good luck getting more free space.

Lord_Fanny-MacH

Yeah but, cmon, anime isn't hard to get down. I spent 9 months to download this one Captain Hedge Hog video. NINE MONTHS.

Vulgar_Menace

I think Smokes on the right track there.