find large files on a hard drive?

metamorphpwner · 10 Feb 2009 at 16:39

Hi,
does anyone know of a way to find out what's using my disk space up so much?. It doesn't seem right to me, 320GB hard drive with 65GB used. the only things i have installed are windows vista, dawn of war:dark crusade and crysis. roughly 2GB music/video and that's about all i have put on the hard drive since i built the pc on friday.

knowlesy · 10 Feb 2009 at 16:42

windirstat

metamorphpwner · 10 Feb 2009 at 16:49

knowlesy said:
windirstat

This shows it's a 257.9Gb hard drive with 235.1GB/91.1% Free space
windows shows 298GB hard drive with 235GB free space and 63GB Used

rpstewart · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:02

Most of these drive scanning programs can't see in the System Volume Information folder which is where the System Restore points go. Those plus your pagefile and the hibernation file will be taking up most of the unaccounted for space.

metamorphpwner · 10 Feb 2009 at 17:10

rpstewart said:
Most of these drive scanning programs can't see in the System Volume Information folder which is where the System Restore points go. Those plus your pagefile and the hibernation file will be taking up most of the unaccounted for space.

a program called disk investigator shows the pagfile thing as 4gb, so it must be winsows files like that taking my space.

alle · 10 Feb 2009 at 18:09

...Treesize pro. Will show you where all that space has gone

jamest · 10 Feb 2009 at 18:32

Spacemonger is another program. v1.4 is free for download

Nanobot · 10 Feb 2009 at 18:46

System Restore will take up 15% of your drive space straight away. Do a search for vssadmin on the forum or google for the command usage to reduce the % it uses. I've posted it before if you want to do the same.

JTrickle · 10 Feb 2009 at 20:58

alle said:
...Treesize pro. Will show you where all that space has gone

2ndd'ded.

The pro in the name is misleading, as its free.