Hard drive space?

Friday, December 7, 2007 by Richard Mohler | Discussion: Personal Computing

The other day I had 220 gb free space now it says 180 gb free. It's supposed to be 320 gb hard drive when I ordered it. Anyway there's no way I have 100gb's of stuff on there. Does anyone know what I can do to check things?  
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AnneMarie
Reply #41 Saturday, December 8, 2007 1:33 PM
I also found that in Vista that if you have system restore enabled it allows Windows to make restore points anytime it wants and they can take up some UNBLELIEVABLE space. There is an option to clean up restore points when you do a Disk Cleanup.

I am not sure if this helps at all Richard but I just wanted to share my bit of information I found.




Anne

Richard Mohler
Reply #42 Saturday, December 8, 2007 1:37 PM
Yea I've done that kind of cleanup..To post a picture do you have to have a url?

Richard Mohler
Reply #43 Saturday, December 8, 2007 1:39 PM
 WWW Link Tree space..

The__Goo
Reply #44 Saturday, December 8, 2007 2:22 PM
hey richard, you have MSN, AOL, ICQ or yahoo... add me to either one and i can help you out with this

MSN: [email protected]
AIM(AOL): gcdryden
Yahoo: gcdryden
ICQ: 78786620

Richard Mohler
Reply #45 Saturday, December 8, 2007 2:46 PM
Emailed you at hotmail.. Somehow I guess it adds up..  102gb's plus 42.7gb's for system restore 145gb's or so from 288 gb's total. I should have about 140 to 150gb's free space and somehow I have more 187 gb's, oh well.. Thought there was a problem guess not, sorry everyone. It just seemed like a few days ago I had over 220gb's free.. Thanks again..

cplair
Reply #46 Saturday, December 8, 2007 3:48 PM
      

I'm glad everything is ok Richard!

Nothing to be sorry about, what you witnessed is people from your community who love and respect you, that's all that is.

I run XP so I'm not well rehearsed with Vista issues. One these days I'll go there!

Cp

  

Richard Mohler
Reply #47 Saturday, December 8, 2007 4:13 PM
Thanks Cp, and thanks again everyone...  

Sed
Reply #48 Saturday, December 8, 2007 4:14 PM
All fixed--- It WAS that hour I tryed cuz it works fine now.. It was only recognizing the jpg preview not the file!!

Sed
Reply #49 Saturday, December 8, 2007 4:17 PM
Richard I cleaned out my SED file... I had half my Hard drive tyed up with music I dont need. Regained about a Gig of hard drive!!! WAV files eat it up!!

Richard Mohler
Reply #50 Saturday, December 8, 2007 5:11 PM
That's alot!  

The__Goo
Reply #51 Saturday, December 8, 2007 10:20 PM
Great, and I ended up taking the 2 day A+ course this morning, and you ended up not having a problem at all????

Just kidding, took that class a hundred years ago... lol... seriously no problems.. always glad to help out. And don't think you bothered anyone, were all here to help out. Maybe one day you can return the favor (you never know).

Anyways, glad all is ok... you got my IM's, so if you ever need anything feel free to hook up... be glad to help

ShelbyGT_The_Car
Reply #52 Saturday, December 8, 2007 10:52 PM
One more question...
What kind of user are you for Vista? Plus - what version of Vista are you using?
I got a feeling you have administrative rights... but you are listed as a user. That and you are more likely using Vista Home Premium. This makes a big difference on being able to handle the shadow copy files and even the hibernation feature correctly. With Vista Ultimate even the true administartor has to assume the rights of control to be in control of this. Look here and see..

Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Local Users and Groups\Users - to see what kind of a account you have?

Control Panel\Administrative Tools\Computer Management\Local Users and Groups\Groups\Backup Operators - to see who is in control of said feature?

These are in Vista Ultimate and not found in Home Premium.
The system will not tell you the complete truth in Vista Home Premium. It has a built in security feature as did XP Home Edition had for the same exact reasons. Thus it does not do as XP and let you know what you can't do. It just does not do it and/or let you know it is not going to do it either.

Good Luck
SGT  

Richard Mohler
Reply #53 Sunday, December 9, 2007 12:19 PM
Vista home premium-yes to admin rights-Open up computer management and all I see is system tools, storage, and service and apps..Thanks..  

Richard Mohler
Reply #54 Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:06 PM
I think something may be off, today I did another disk cleanup and also removed all restore points but most recent and now I have 260 GB's..Free space...  

Philly0381
Reply #55 Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:11 PM
The first question, do you have access to all your files on that drive? If the answer is yes, with all the programs you ran to check the drive, there had to been something running in the background or you have one very sick drive.

Fuzzy Logic
Reply #56 Tuesday, December 18, 2007 8:27 PM

The file structure may be corrupt and Windows is incorrectly showing disk usage.

Go to Start > Run and type 'command', this will bring up the command prompt. Whe you have that type 'chkdsk' and see what it says. If there are a few file errors you can repeat again, typing 'chkdsk /f', if there are loads of errors type 'chkdsk /r'. Both these will ask if you want it to run the next time you boot - say yes to that.

If there are no errors from chkdsk, we'll have to think of something else     


Richard Mohler
Reply #57 Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:15 PM
Says windows has checked file system and found no problems see link-->WWW Link  

Philly0381
Reply #58 Tuesday, December 18, 2007 9:36 PM
Again the question has to be do you have access to all the files that are on the drive? If you do then you have to believe chkdsk did work correctly. Then some program was running that you couldn't see. I would keep an eye on the % or amount of freespace, if it changes by any amount that you can account for, something got turned on. I wonder if it could be some type of malware.

You do have a unique problem.

Richard Mohler
Reply #59 Tuesday, December 18, 2007 10:22 PM
I ran a virus/spyware check with system restore off and it came up clean. Thanks everyone I'll keep an eye on it...  

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