FUCK THIS, HELP ME

[jimmychung]

So, something went wrong with my MacBook a few weeks ago and it would not start up. I brought it to the campus computer help center, and after hours of searching, they figured that the login window was crashing. Their solution: reinstall leopard. Before this incident, I had 25GB of space on my hard drive, and life was good. After reinstalling leopard, making sure it turns on now, and taking it home, I realized that I had lost OVER 20GB OF SPACE. Where the fuck did it go?? How can I get it back?? Now, I have 1GB left, and I need help. Are there some kind of archiving files from the reinstallation that I can delete now? Help me damnit!

 

[nashbuck]

there is a program in here that shows where all your space is getting used at.

try getting that and seeing if you can find it

 

[jwhyte]

do it agian!

go into disk utility and clear your drive completely (don't forget to backup blah blah blah)
there will be something to select that says zero out everything.
it will take a long time maybee even a few hours
but its worth it.

 

[Xave]

Do this. Reformat, reinstall. Hope you still have your installation disks.

before though, download WHATSIZE, its the app the other guy was talking about. REally useful when you want to know what's taking so much space on your computer.

 

[Schmitty]

At the root level of your hard drive... check and see if there is a folder called "Previous Systems" Depending on the type of install they did you may have it sitting there, nuke it and your space should be back.