[Al4x]

i have done yet another fresh install of windows 7

installed all drivers and programs

thers now 70gb of used space out of 400 availible!!

i can only allocate for 16gb!
[i opened the (C) drive and highlighted everything and clicked properties inc hidden files]

wheres the space gone?

ive also used ccleaner to remove all restore points

 

[120717]

I have approximately the same amount of stuff not counting a few programs on my 320gb external, and my 640gb RAID 0 internal, yet I have ~ the same amount free. Time for a fresh install of XP

 

[Al4x]

if this is going to require yet another install of 7, im only doing it once more, before i sell my 7 copy and go back to vista!

 

[iriverdude]

List each main dir filesize. Also you have hibernation file which is same size as system memory, disable hib if it's a desktop

 

[Al4x]

1.3GB = users
3.0GB = Program files
256MB = program data
226MB = dell
142MB = recovery
10.3GB = windows
2.44GB = Hiberfile
3.25GB = pagefile

 

[MCC]

Here's a few things to try:

1. TreeSize
2. Scandisk (right-click C > properties > tools > scan now)
3. Check partitioning structure (control panel > admin tools > cpr. mgmt. > storage > disk mgmt.)

 

[Al4x]

so im still 50GB short roughly :/

 

[Al4x]

tree size says the same as another program, that im using 20GB

i cant find scan disk and my windows C partition has 402GB HDD space left of which 328GB is free

 

[iriverdude]

Dell- so probably have 70GB partition for recovery files?

 

[Al4x]

problem is solved, another person on a forum came up with the solution

nah, this is a dell laptopto which ive put a couple of bigger hard drives in myself

 

[Samgotit]

Your GB's are on a mission to find out why a state name is used for a town name in another state.

They went here:

iowa la - Google Maps

 

[Al4x]

we have that here, of all the names you could choose, having two the same = fail lol

 

[iriverdude]

Quote:

problem is solved, another person on a forum came up with the solution

and?

 

[Al4x]

ah sorry

it was the shadow copy, it obviously doesnt show in disk management or file tree revealing programs.. i had to resize it

it was taking up exactly the amount of space i had lost!

53GBs!! so it was related to system restore/backup

 

[Al4x]

btw, im keeping treesize, very useful!