Hard Drive FULL?

[MadSteezin]

Okay so I got the hard drive running low on memory pop up the other day... So I checked it out and saw that I had almost used all the memory up, I did a "Disk Cleanup" and I now have...

Capacity: 111 GB

Used Space: 108 GB

Free Space: 3.00 GB

I thought to my self WTF?! Then I checked folders in the Local Disk (C and found out the following...

WINDOWS - 3.77 GB

Program Files - 2.33 GB

Documents and Settings 24.2 GB

NVIDIA - 0 bytes

TEMP - 38.9 KB

That's only about 30 GB of my 111 GB hard drive!!!

Maybe I am making a noob error here or something, but I just don't know so help me out if you can. Thanks!

 

[I_Am_Mod]

i don't see what your problem is...
you can never completely empty your harddisc if you stil want windows and the programfiles running....just get a 1TB external harddisc to store all your porn and you should be fine!

 

[Billek]

Don't try to fix it. Just know that you have 3gb left to store/install things.
On a different note, it looks like your programs file should be taking up more space, I would poke around there and see what's up.

 

[MadSteezin]

My problem is that I don't know where the hell the rest of the 81 GB are at!

 

[Franny]

You could possibly have more drives other than C.

 

[I_Am_Mod]

oh, i tought that was after you cleaned your harddrive....sorry then....
and to reply on your original question: i have no idea.....

 

[MadSteezin]

No just C.

 

[Steeze-On-Toast]

wow, thats a weird one.
you could always back up what you know you need and format it

 

[Slinger1x1]

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

download this. its amazing, it maps out your hard drive and show you how much space is being taken up by what. saved my ass a couple times

 

[SteezyOhio]

buddy i have a 30gb hard drive, its been full since the day i bought this dopey computer used, stupid pre-used computers of large business, cant even burn cd's

delete some of your shit, literally i have 300mb free

 

[Paulage]

 

[thegreyarea]

Try running a disk first aid utility. It sounds like there's an error on your hard drive that's causing you to misplace space. Also, run a disk cataloger to tell you what directories are taking up the most room. I bet your previous program missed something.

 

[mammothpunks]

disk cleanup just clears out temp / unused files. it does not delete all the extra files such as videos/music/programs.

 

[teleTay]

buy parts

and upgrade

 

[Phantom]

just delete system 32, it doesn't really do anything, and takes up a ton of space. i deleted it, and i'm a better person.

 

[AlexGaynor]

No, you my friend are a dick.....

a funny dick...

sorry for ruining the joke... but save that shit for 4chan

 

[DrZoidberg]

1: download CCleaner

2: run CCleaner

3: buy an external hard drive.

 

[Franny]

 

[panojibber]

Defragment, and perhaps PM K-Rob, as I'm pretty sure he knows his shit for computer. I think.

 

[Lanceasaurus]

Don't delete system32 its a trick >.

 

[SteezyOhio]

college next fall, i have a old broken 30gb ipod, that ive made into a large external hard drive, just go to my computer then added a folder, all my music files are on the ipod, so if it crashs....fml

 

[chapz]

yes. ccleaner is a very good program. there are others as well. it removes a lot of old setup files which are useless, and pretty much anything else you want.