losing system drive space

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Hello All

I have mystry to discuss, My C drive is losing HDD space. It always use to
have 2GB free space but I saw suddenly, it only left 15mb. I delete few
files, uninstalled few programmes etc, not much help. So I end up moving
pagefile to other drive. after moving Page file space on C drive was 1.72 GB
and 2 days on now it is 1.63GB. other interesting thing is document and
settings folder space
size on the disk: 3.95
size:8.62
total disk space is 7.80

It is strange that one folder is consuming more space than it has on the
disk!!!

I am running defrag to see if it may save some space for me.
Now the problem is, I am losing disk space on c drice everyday and I have no
clue as to why it is happening.

please help!!
Thanks in advance
Regards
Ajay
 
Ajay said:
Hello All

I have mystry to discuss, My C drive is losing HDD space. It always use to
have 2GB free space but I saw suddenly, it only left 15mb. I delete few
files, uninstalled few programmes etc, not much help. So I end up moving
pagefile to other drive. after moving Page file space on C drive was 1.72 GB
and 2 days on now it is 1.63GB. other interesting thing is document and
settings folder space
size on the disk: 3.95
size:8.62
total disk space is 7.80

It is strange that one folder is consuming more space than it has on the
disk!!!

I am running defrag to see if it may save some space for me.
Now the problem is, I am losing disk space on c drice everyday and I have no
clue as to why it is happening.

please help!!
Thanks in advance
Regards
Ajay
Click to expand...

You need to find what's using the space. If Documents and Settings is
taking 3.95 GB, open it up and find out what's using that space. I like
the DIRUSE tool provided by Microsoft (as a download). Other products
exist that perform similarly and do so using graphics (DIRUSE is a
command line tool), but DIRUSE can include files and folders that you do
not have permission (NTFS) to access.

Once you find out what's using the space, you can find out why it's
using the space and take appropriate action.

BTW, Defrag does not recover space - it organizes files to provide
faster access... I've never seen or heard of a defrag resulting in more
free space (it just doesn't make sense that it would).


-Lee
 
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