Win XP SP3 Missing Space on C Drive

Daff_Duck · 19 Jul 2012 at 12:02

I am constantly being advised that my Primary partiton is running out of space. After checking the size of al the files inc the hidden ones I cannot figure out were the missing 10GB is

I have already compressed the parition and really dont want to go to the length of formating it. My Docs have already been relocated to another Partition.

Is there any other way of indentifying the culprit/s

HyperSonic · 19 Jul 2012 at 12:06

are you viewing hidden files?

swap files and the likes would be hidden on the root of the c drive (tho a 10gb swap would be huge)

failing that try diskanalyser, should help you find those mytery files

http://www.diskanalyzerpro.com/

bledd · 19 Jul 2012 at 12:12

I'd advise against compressing your system drive, it will take an age to open things.

Probably taken up by System Restore files.

Disable System Restore and see if it gives you the space back.

Other places it's likely to be.. pagefile.sys, hiberfil.sys (pagefile and hibernation file), if you don't use hibernation, then disable it and delete the file.

Run CCleaner to remove temp files, it'll probably clear out a lot of space if you've never used it before. Especially the 'hotfix backup remover' section

HyperSonic · 19 Jul 2012 at 12:13

ah - forgot about system restore, the little blighter

bledd · 19 Jul 2012 at 12:35

CCleaner is well worth a run though, excellent tool.

Personally, I only use it for clearing up temp files and I steer clear of the 'Registry' section

lurkio · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:06

bledd. said:
CCleaner is well worth a run though, excellent tool.

Personally, I only use it for clearing up temp files and I steer clear of the 'Registry' section

+1 , reg section = BIG trouble

Daff_Duck · 19 Jul 2012 at 14:28

Thanks peeps! must say I use CC cleaner on a regular basis but will give the http://www.diskanalyzerpro.com/ a try

KIA · 19 Jul 2012 at 15:13

There's also Windirstat.