Program to show what is taking up space on hard drive?

Draeger

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I did a fresh install of Vista Ultimate last night on a 36Gb Raptor.

All I have installed on C: is Windows and my drivers. Thats it, nothing else.

Everything else, programs, games etc is on my F: drive, my "Apps" drive which is a 250Gb Maxtor. I have another E: drive which is a 160Gb Maxtor that I use to archive and back things up.

But my C: drive is showing only 9Gb free out of the 36Gb Raptor's space. :confused:

Does that sound about right for a fresh install of Vista Ultimate?.

Wondering if there is a program out there I can download and run which will show exactly what is taking up space on a hard drive?.
 
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Treesize Pro.
System Restore will take up 15% of your space to start with, pagefile probably another 4GB. Hibernate will too, and I'm sure that even if you install programs and games on another drive, it will still install system dll's into Windows, Application Data, Common Files, Local Settings and other user profile areas.
Plus, 'recommended' HDD system requirements for Vista Ultimate is around 40GB.
 
I manually set three restore points after the fresh install. Would each one take up its own space or does System Restore just take up the 15% you mentioned no matter how many restore points you set?.

40Gb minimum?.

Hmm. Time to bin the 36Gb Raptor then methinks!!
 
Did a disk cleanup and it was showing around 6Gb of error report log things!!!???

Got rid of them and freed up a fair bit of extra disk space. :cool:
 
Run this in DOS window as an administrator and see what System Restore is using/allocating;

vssadmin List ShadowStorage

Though I'm not a huge fan on Maxtors, you could use your 160GB as your main OS drive and put your 36GB into an external drive caddy for the odd backup, unless you're deciding to buy a new drive altogether.
 
Its showing :-

Used Shadow Copy Storage Space : 4.686 Gb
Allocated Shadow Copy Storage Space : 4.97 Gb
Maximum Shadow Copy Storage Space : 5.71 Gb
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Thanks for the tip, didn't know that cmd. ;)

I'm thinking of going for a new Raptor but a larger capacity one unless you can suggest a comparable and quick drive to use as an OS only drive?.
 
Draeger said:
Its showing :-



Thanks for the tip, didn't know that cmd. ;)

I'm thinking of going for a new Raptor but a larger capacity one unless you can suggest a comparable and quick drive to use as an OS only drive?.
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Samsung F1s are as far as I know quite a bit faster than those easlier raptors. They're even pretty close to the newer raptors too.

Raptors, especially now are a waste of money in my opinion.
 
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