windows drive low on disk space

gweilo · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:50

Hello

My pc is running raid 0 and i have 4 partitions (windowsxppro, swapfile, programs & data). My windows partition is 8GB and almost full, yet I don't install any programs on that partition nor are my documents stored there. I can't figure out what is hogging all the space. I've looked at the folders and files in the partition including hidden files and they don't add up to nearly 8GB (only about 3GB), although on the properties of the drive it does.

Where is all the data hidden, any ideas???

Cheers

G

marc2003 · 10 Feb 2006 at 16:57

it's more than likely system restore is using that space. try deleting some restore points or disable it altogether.

gweilo · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:12

i've had system restore disabled all the time. what else could it be? :confused:

|Ric| · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:49

have you got a page file stored on c?

you say my documents is not on c, what about the rest of document and settings (I don' t know whether you can or cant mvoe this), but there may be some temporary files in there (unlikely to use that much space though)

Ricochet J · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:53

Wasn't it not a good idea to put the Swap file on a different partition

marc2003 · 10 Feb 2006 at 17:54

download and install this-

http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html

it will show what is using the space.

gweilo · 11 Feb 2006 at 00:53

Great thx. I discovered what it was without this tool. Basically it was an old pagefile.sys (2GB) and hiberfil.sys (1.5GB) - hibernate mode file, which I managed to delete :cool: