Whats Vista doing with my space?

[eyetrip]

Hi all.

I have 2 x 250GB drives. One is purely a backup of the other using the Vista backup utility.

The only thing on the backup drive, is the backup itself, which is 140GB. But Vista is saying I only have 24GB left on the drive.

There should be close to 100GB!

I have windows display all hidden and system files to me, but I can find nothing else on there besides the 140Gb backup.

Any ideas?

 

[stickroad]

So you have 2 Hard drives, one with Vista on and then the other is a backup of Vista entirely, is that right?

 

[MeatLoaf]

Delete your restore points

 

[eyetrip]

Sorry your going to have to explain, i didn't really understand what you just said.

Are you joking or does what I typed make no sense to you?

 

[stickroad]

Are you joking or does what I typed make no sense to you?

No im not joking, i didn't understand what you meant.

Edited my first post anyway.

 

[eyetrip]

No im not joking, i didn't understand what you meant.

Edited my first post anyway.

Ok, yes, as you re-typed it is how I have it set up.

 

[eyetrip]

Delete your restore points

Done. Did not help.

Gone through disk cleanup for other things too.

 

[TheVoice]

Tried WinDirStat? It'll give you a visual representation of your drives and what's on them.

 

[csmager]

Run chkdsk in case there's just some random filesystem error causing lousy reporting.

 

[Deluxe1]

Have you disabled system restore?

 

[eyetrip]

WindirStat reports same info as windows.

Chkdsk has not fixed anything.

System restore is enabled, but only for my primary drive.

 

[PhillyDee]

Does it show as a 250Gb volume? And is it the right filesystem?

 

[Dappy]

Download SpaceMonger 1.40 and see what it reveals:

http://www.aplusfreeware.com/categories/LFWV/SpaceMonger.html

 

[bledd]

install and run ccleaner on the pc, might be something in recycle bin etc

go to the root of that drive, press CTRL + A, then right click properties..
do rigt click properties on the drive letter itself too

do the show hidden files, and tick the 'show system files'

sounds like system restore or something, could try turning it off on all drives, just incase

 

[eyetrip]

No luck with any of *** suggestions so far... although not tried ccleaner yet.

But space monger reporting same info. HAve completely disabled system restore on all drives, deleted all restore stuff, etc, etc.

I am loath to delete partition, or even format, because the last time I did that I had the bad luck of my primary drive failing just after, and lost a whole lot of stuff.

Christ, I really need a third backup device. absolutely bloody annoying.

 

[Hxc]

http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/

Run that on the drive and see what it shows up as taking the space,

 

[bledd]

does it show up as 250gb (around 232 i think) in explorer?

 

[TheVoice]

http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/

Run that on the drive and see what it shows up as taking the space,

Similar sort of thing has already been posted twice mate. But I'm not sure if the OP is actually looking at the visual representation to figure out what's occupying the drive in the first place.

 

[Felix Da Housecat]

How many times have you installed vista on your main drive?

In the past when I have installed vista agian it didn't delete the old files, so when i installed vista for the second time the hard drive was showing ~80gb or more being in use.

 

[bledd]

Similar sort of thing has already been posted twice mate. But I'm not sure if the OP is actually looking at the visual representation to figure out what's occupying the drive in the first place.

yeah, just run one of the tools

shows you graphically where the space is being used up




you had a go at stickyroad and ignored half the suggestions!