Hard Drive Full...But It Shouldn't Be?

Kyle009 · 29 Aug 2010 at 19:44

Hey guys, A strange one this one.

My girlfriends laptop has a hard drive with 50GB usable, running Windows 7.

However Windows is saying that only 11MB is free. After checking the properties of all the files, I can only find 30GB of stuff.

I've had a look at restore points, these are turned off. I've cleared the internet cache, deleted cookies and history. I've adjusted the page file, but all to no avail.

Does anyone have any ideas what might be causing this? I know the machine is virus free as I've just given it a good scan with NoD32.

Cheers!

rpstewart · 29 Aug 2010 at 19:52

Hibernation file (c:\hiberfil.sys)?

Have you deleted the old restore points as well as just turning System Restore off?

Nanobot · 29 Aug 2010 at 19:55

Try Treesize Free

Kyle009 · 29 Aug 2010 at 19:58

rpstewart said:
Hibernation file (c:\hiberfil.sys)?

Have you deleted the old restore points as well as just turning System Restore off?

Yeah I've deleted the old restore points, where abouts is that file? I've had a search and can't seem to find it.

Nanobot said:
Try Treesize Free

Will give that a go now

Kyle009 · 29 Aug 2010 at 20:27

All sorted now. Had somehow managed to get 19GB worth of garbage in the TEMP folder.

CCleaner sorted that out though

richb93 · 29 Aug 2010 at 20:44

Kyle009 said:
All sorted now. Had somehow managed to get 19GB worth of garbage in the TEMP folder.

CCleaner sorted that out though

19GB of temp files?!?! :eek:

Kyle009 · 29 Aug 2010 at 21:42

richb93 said:
19GB of temp files?!?!

Yeah I was quite shocked too...