44 Gigs of data + 80 Gig Hard Drive = Full HD?

[electric_phoenix]

I have only 44 gigs of data on my hard drive but windows shows it as full. Its an 80 gig harddrive. what can i do to remedy this?

[Neil]

Consider the following:

Your recycle bin - is it empty?
Hidden system files etc - are they included?
Your paging file - that can take up a gig or two.
Have you ran chkdsk? Start > run > cmd > chkdsk/f (you'll need to restart)

[patio]

Windows is correct...that HDD is full...it's your Documents and Settings folder that contains 44+Gig...

I'm suprised that machine even starts up.

You have some housekeeping to do. Back up what you need....free up some space (Windows recommends at least 15% free space ) and then run diskclean and defrag....it will take awhile.

patio.    8-)

[electric_phoenix]

No the hd's not full because of my docs and settings. Look.

[electric_phoenix]

Consider the following:

Your recycle bin - is it empty?
Hidden system files etc - are they included?
Your paging file - that can take up a gig or two.
Have you ran chkdsk? Start > run > cmd > chkdsk/f (you'll need to restart)

1) i dont use recycle bin i immediately delete files
2) i selected show hidden files and control + a in c:\ and did properties to get the 44 gig window
3) i ran system cleanup which should clear the paging file (2 gigs wouldnt fill 1/2 an 80 gig tho)
4) i tried it and no difference in the windows previously shown

[electric_phoenix]

ps if your reading this and think u can help please just IM me the forum will take forever to resolve this type of prob. my aim is Durtdeeler

[patio]

ps if your reading this and think u can help please just IM me the forum will take forever to resolve this type of prob. my aim is Durtdeeler

In the first screenshot your Doc/Settings folder was 44+G...
The total free space was 3+G...

Now the Doc/Settings folder is 25+G

You're missing the point.
You have some serious housekeeping to do... that HDD is almost full.

You can post as many screenshots as you like but you need to get things under control or you will continue to have problems.

p.s. the time lag of the forums is not the issue here... see my sig.

[electric_phoenix]

the reason it said 44 gigs (as i said 2 posts ago) is because i selected all in my c: drive and then hit properties, the second screenshot is of when i only selected documents and settings. and its impossibe for my hd to be full because i just did a format/clean install and then brounght back the 25gb of my docs to my computer. so there can only be, with the few progs ive installed 40-50 gigs of data on here total, not 75.

[patio]

I'm going on what you posted...period.

If Windows is reporting that HDD has 3 G of free space then chances are that is what you have no matter what you might think to the contrary.

Have you been customising your swapfile by any chance ? ?

I'd suggest DLoading SequoiaView from the link below which will report the real used part of that HDD...

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

patio.   8-)

[Neil]

Patio, you need to be more observant, you've done this a few times.

Electric Phoenix this is indeed a very unusual problem. I've done this in my computer. C: properties say 62gig used, put right click properties on everything in C: is 53gig. I know that there is some difference between the way file size is reported (it's complicated about sector sizes if you really want an explantion I'll tell you) but I wouldn't have thought it would have been that bad. Do you have lots of small (few kb) files? They can cause this problem.

What is the size of shared documents and admins documents? Please take a look in your recyle bin, you never know. On your system properties, go to performance virtual memory, what is your paging file size?

Did you try using chkdsk? Try analysing your computer with defrag and take a screenshot of the graph.

Try deleted these files you've put on it, and seeing how the size looks then.

Aside from that all I can think to do is format, retry again and hope for the best.

[electric_phoenix]

is it possible that i did not format correctly and i still have all the files from before the clean install under another account name than i cannot see unless i am logged in as the admin?

[Maksim]

Try This.. Go to the C:/ Drive and right select all of the contents in that drive and right click and hit proporties and tell us how much everything is now?

[electric_phoenix]

44.9 gb same as pic 1 top right

[Neil]

@maksim "........."

@electric phonex try answering ALL my questions, and tell me what happens when you do my suggestions.

[highlight]Do you have lots of small (few kb) files? They can cause this problem.[/highlight]

[highlight]What is the size of shared documents and admins documents? Please take a look in your recyle bin, you never know. On your system properties, go to performance virtual memory, what is your paging file size?[/highlight]

[highlight]Did you try using chkdsk? Try analysing your computer with defrag and take a screenshot of the graph.[/highlight]

[highlight]Try deleting these files you've put on it, and seeing how the size looks then. [/highlight]

[highlight]http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/[/highlight] from patio

Don't complain no one will help you when you haven't used all the help already provided.

[Rob Pomeroy]

Patio, you need to be more observant, you've done this a few times.

Steady on there, young 'un.  Before you start flinging stones about in your greenhouse, take a good look at the top of the right hand dialogue box first posted in this thread.  Patio noticed what no one else seems to have spotted.

I would be interested to see a full disk defrag report on this drive.