Whats using all this space?

Nick1881 · 4 Mar 2009 at 08:46

I ordered 2 Samsung 64Gb SSD's yesterday from work so I will have a 128Gb C: drive.

Last night I check and my C: drive is currently 114Gb :eek:

but looking at the size of the folders it didn't add up.

Vista Ultimate 64bit installed with Office 2007 and COD4 is the only game installed. Anything I down goes on to my storage drives so I don't understand what is using all the space?

I need to ghost this drive and would rather it wasn't so big and also don't want it filling my new drives.

I will run Ccleaner when I get home, is there anything else I can do to free up some space?

Thanks

Brian Stuart · 4 Mar 2009 at 08:53

System restore, hibernation and page file most probably.

bledd · 4 Mar 2009 at 08:56

system restore
'previous versions'

disable system restore
delete all the points -do this in 'cleanmgr', more options, cleanup.

then click start, type cmd, rightclick it, 'run as administrator'
paste this into the cmd window.

vssadmin resize shadowstorage /for=c: /on=c: /maxsize=300MB

that will set the max size for 'previous versions' and what not to 300mb (that's the smallest you can set it to)

along with ccleaner, should free up multiple gigs

corsa · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:02

Windows updates? C:\Windows\SoftwareDistribution\Download

Shouldn't be using that much but might be able to few a fe GB's

Nick1881 · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:30

Thanks guys, I will have a look when I get home.

I also need a good Ghosting program to ghost my OS if you know of one.

corsa · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:39

mr_x_plosion said:
Thanks guys, I will have a look when I get home.

I also need a good Ghosting program to ghost my OS if you know of one.

Symantec

platypus · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:41

Use Spacemonger to find out whats using your disk space.

Brian Stuart · 4 Mar 2009 at 09:51

mr_x_plosion said:
Thanks guys, I will have a look when I get home.

I also need a good Ghosting program to ghost my OS if you know of one.

Acronis True Image

bledd · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:00

Acronis True Image for the imaging

Pulse · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:05

Yeah don't Restore Points suck... checked last night and I had 13 restore points taking up 100GBs :/

Nick1881 · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:05

Is that all dos based? As I need to ghost my OS from my raid array to my storage drive, then create new raid array and ghost it back on. I have a feeling this isn't going to be fun.

IAmATeaf · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:12

Have a look at the WinSxS folder and watch her grow. This folder is used by Windows Side by Side and allows Vista to keep tabs of differing versions of the same DLLs which may be required by some programs but it effectively produces cabinet type files with many duplicated DLLs so just grows and grows as you install software.

Pho · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:36

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/
http://windirstat.info/

Run either of these on your drive.

bledd · 4 Mar 2009 at 10:52

acronis true image can be run from a bootable cd, it has a windows like GUI to it.

Nick1881 · 4 Mar 2009 at 11:22

That sounds good.

Thanks bledd. you have been most helpful again. Thanks to everyone else for their input too.

corsa · 4 Mar 2009 at 13:17

Did you find what was using all the space?

bledd · 4 Mar 2009 at 13:47

it's system restore

Nick1881 · 4 Mar 2009 at 15:50

corsa said:
Did you find what was using all the space?

Still at work atm, should be home in about an hour.

These guys will be right though, but now I know where to look.

Defenestration · 4 Mar 2009 at 16:19

mr_x_plosion said:
I also need a good Ghosting program to ghost my OS if you know of one.

Terabyte's Image for Windows/DOS/Linux

Nick1881 · 4 Mar 2009 at 17:33

Well I just sorted it, I'm truly gob smacked.

I followed bledd's steps in post #3.

Before my C: drive was using 115Gb of space and now its 38.7Gb! Amazing.

Thanks.

Now to ghost my OS onto my new SSD's.