Lost Disk Space

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On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:42:22 +0000 (UTC), "Howard"
<Howard_key@btclick.com> wrote:
>I have just re-loaded Xp onto my machine to enable me to ge a clean install
>of SP2 which has worked fine but I now find that my hard drive (60 GB) now
>has only 8 GB of free space where as before there was over 22 GB free.
>I have looked to see if there arer any large files that have been duplicated
>and which could be deleted but to no avail. I have defraged the drive but I
>can still not account for the exrta space being taken up on the drive.
>has anyone any ideas as to what may be taking up the space and how I can
>regain this space on my drive.

I use Win2000 so this may not apply... but... the default install of
Win2000 uses a LOT of space for the recycle bin which does not show
in any of the "usual" ways of looking at the files on the drive

As I remember, I had to right click on the bin and go into properties


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Is "system restore" turned on? If so, the restore points saved in "system
volume information" folder is where it went.

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"Howard" <Howard_key@btclick.com> wrote in message
news:ch0agd$j3f$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
>I have just re-loaded Xp onto my machine to enable me to ge a clean install
>of SP2 which has worked fine but I now find that my hard drive (60 GB) now
>has only 8 GB of free space where as before there was over 22 GB free.
> I have looked to see if there arer any large files that have been
> duplicated and which could be deleted but to no avail. I have defraged the
> drive but I can still not account for the exrta space being taken up on
> the drive.
> has anyone any ideas as to what may be taking up the space and how I can
> regain this space on my drive.
>
> Howard
>
>

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"John Thomas Smith" <jtsmith@pacifier.com> wrote in message
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| On Mon, 30 Aug 2004 22:42:22 +0000 (UTC), "Howard"
| <Howard_key@btclick.com> wrote:
| >I have just re-loaded Xp onto my machine to enable me to ge a clean
install
| >of SP2 which has worked fine but I now find that my hard drive (60 GB)
now
| >has only 8 GB of free space where as before there was over 22 GB free.
| >I have looked to see if there arer any large files that have been
duplicated
| >and which could be deleted but to no avail. I have defraged the drive but
I
| >can still not account for the exrta space being taken up on the drive.
| >has anyone any ideas as to what may be taking up the space and how I can
| >regain this space on my drive.
|
| I use Win2000 so this may not apply... but... the default install of
| Win2000 uses a LOT of space for the recycle bin which does not show
| in any of the "usual" ways of looking at the files on the drive
|
| As I remember, I had to right click on the bin and go into properties
|
|
| John Thomas Smith
| http://www.direct2usales.com
| http://www.pacifier.com/~jtsmith

SequoiaView is an excellent free (and clean) utility to track down
mysterious missing drive space.

It provides a one window graphical representation of which files are taking
up how much space where on a drive, often tracking down files that Windows
is reluctant to reveal.

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

(I should add that it's fun too) :-)



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What you're saying doesn't make sense, no way can a fresh install of XP
consume 52GB of drive space.
Did you format and do a clean install, or just try to reinstall XP over the
top of the original?

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> I have just re-loaded Xp onto my machine to enable me to ge a clean
> install of SP2 which has worked fine but I now find that my hard drive
> (60 GB) now has only 8 GB of free space where as before there was over
> 22 GB free. I have looked to see if there arer any large files that have
> been
> duplicated and which could be deleted but to no avail. I have defraged
> the drive but I can still not account for the exrta space being taken
> up on the drive. has anyone any ideas as to what may be taking up the
> space and how I can
> regain this space on my drive.
>
> Howard

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No I did not do a format on the disk just reinstalled over the existing XP.

"johnf" <john_f@bigREMOVEpond.net.au> wrote in message
news:%23vJ9C3vjEHA.712@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
> What you're saying doesn't make sense, no way can a fresh install of XP
> consume 52GB of drive space.
> Did you format and do a clean install, or just try to reinstall XP over
> the top of the original?
>
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>
> johnf
>
>> I have just re-loaded Xp onto my machine to enable me to ge a clean
>> install of SP2 which has worked fine but I now find that my hard drive
>> (60 GB) now has only 8 GB of free space where as before there was over
>> 22 GB free. I have looked to see if there arer any large files that have
>> been
>> duplicated and which could be deleted but to no avail. I have defraged
>> the drive but I can still not account for the exrta space being taken
>> up on the drive. has anyone any ideas as to what may be taking up the
>> space and how I can
>> regain this space on my drive.
>>
>> Howard
>
>

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First two things I'd do to is -

1. Run SequoiaView as advised, to see if there are any massive files there &
if so, what they are - it's an excellent simplistic little toy, but gives
you the big picture.
2. Download & run Advanced Space Hunter, just to see how many duplicated
files the 2nd. install has created, which is what I suspect has happened.
Just run ASH so you can see exactly what's happened, just elect to scan for
duplicate files only (results can be sorted by size)
http://www.jimjams.com/ash079.exe

Once you know exactly what the state of your drive is, then you can work out
how to resolve this problem

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> No I did not do a format on the disk just reinstalled over the existing
> XP.
> "johnf" <john_f@bigREMOVEpond.net.au> wrote in message
> news:%23vJ9C3vjEHA.712@TK2MSFTNGP09.phx.gbl...
>> What you're saying doesn't make sense, no way can a fresh install of XP
>> consume 52GB of drive space.
>> Did you format and do a clean install, or just try to reinstall XP over
>> the top of the original?
>>
>> --
>>
>> johnf
>>
>>> I have just re-loaded Xp onto my machine to enable me to ge a clean
>>> install of SP2 which has worked fine but I now find that my hard drive
>>> (60 GB) now has only 8 GB of free space where as before there was over
>>> 22 GB free. I have looked to see if there arer any large files that
>>> have been
>>> duplicated and which could be deleted but to no avail. I have defraged
>>> the drive but I can still not account for the exrta space being taken
>>> up on the drive. has anyone any ideas as to what may be taking up the
>>> space and how I can
>>> regain this space on my drive.
>>>
>>> Howard

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try running Window's error checking tool ... could be lost chains..

go to my computer, right click the hard drive, go to tools tab and fire
error checking tool

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"Howard" <Howard_key@btclick.com> wrote in message
news:ch0agd$j3f$1@sparta.btinternet.com...
> I have just re-loaded Xp onto my machine to enable me to ge a clean
install
> of SP2 which has worked fine but I now find that my hard drive (60 GB) now
> has only 8 GB of free space where as before there was over 22 GB free.
> I have looked to see if there arer any large files that have been
duplicated
> and which could be deleted but to no avail. I have defraged the drive but
I
> can still not account for the exrta space being taken up on the drive.
> has anyone any ideas as to what may be taking up the space and how I can
> regain this space on my drive.
>
> Howard
>
>