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

[Neil]

The first properties box is of all the files and folders in C: that's why it says All in C:. The second properties box is of his documents and settings folder only, and simply says location C:. If you property more than one folder it tries to list them in the title, but obviously you aren't going to fit many names (one in fact) on the title bar.

[electric_phoenix]

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

1) No
2) Admins Documents = 25GB / recyble bin = empty (never used) /virtual mem =1.5GB
3) ran chkdsk/f no change / cant defrag need 15% free HD for that
4) Minimal change
5)Sequia view showed i had files that i had not installed for programs that were on th pc bofore the format

i appreciate everyones attempts to help but we're making little if any progress, i backed up my 44gigs of data and my hd's a blank slate till i get home. then ill install windows and let you guys know what happens.

[soybean]

electric phoenix, I see differences between the first image of Documents and Settings that you posted and the second one.  For Location, the first one says, "All in C:\".  The second simply says, "C:\".  And, the second shows "Created:", which is completely missing from the first image.  And then, the first image shows "Multiple" for Type, while the second one shows "File Folder".   And, the second image has a tab named Sharing; the first does not.

It looks we're trying to compare apples and oranges, here.  How did you create the freaky first image?  What version of Windows are you running?

[GX1_Man]

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

Best advice given so far.  

[patio]

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

Best advice given so far.  

I give up...i'd say turn the light off but there's no light here.

[patio]

[highlight]3) ran chkdsk/f no change / cant defrag need 15% free HD for that [/highlight]

I think this observation bears out my original points...

[Neil]

Soybean in the first image he selected all the files and folders on c:, on the second image he selected his documents folder only. It sounds like he is going to reformat, which is probably a good idea. It also sounds like he didn't format he harddrive properly the first time round. Electric phoenix, what is the percise procedure you are using to format?

[soybean]

Thanks, Neil, that's clear to me now.  I should have deciphered that before my previous post.

Perhaps reformatting is the best, even the only, solution.  Still, I'd be curious to see whether just downloading and running CCleaner would make a significant difference in this situation.

[Rob Pomeroy]

Erm...  I think the stuff about improper formatting is possibly a red herring.

What you can tell from the first images is that the option "Hide protected operating system files" is selected.  So the file count will not be complete.  In any case, you can't really rely on the Windows folder properties dialogues to give accurate file size counts for multiple files where there exist multiple system folders and hidden folders.  Windows Explorer does not compensate for the peculiarities of system folders - e.g. Fonts.

I'd still be interested to see what a defrag analysis would say about this drive...

[patio]

I'm still waiting as well...
However he did state that defrag would not run because free space was under 15%.

[Rob Pomeroy]

Yes, but in XP I think the drive analysis should still produce a meaningful report...?

[patio]

Yep...