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hard drive appears nearly full but is only 25% used
I have vista home premium, 200gb hard drive. i had not been paying attention until I received a warning that I was running out of space. Being sort of a dummy, I took computer to Best Buy. They ran diagnostics. They found no problems. Then they cleaned it up and optimized it. When I got it home the C drive showed 177gb capacity with 135gb free space. Within 3 days my free space was reduced by approx 25gb. I downloaded and ran Auslogics Defrag and my free space was again 135gb. But in the last 5 days my free space has been disappearing. It's at 113gb right now. I realize that's plenty of free space, but I'd like to rectify this problem before I'm close to showing full again. Can someone help me? -- frankfleck Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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hard drive appears nearly full but is only 25% used
Hi, Frank.
This question gets asked often, so Google or Bing should find plenty of answers for you. But the answers come in many parts because there are many causes for your question - so there are many partial answers. Just a few candidates: Since files are stored on the disk in fixed-size "clusters" or "allocation units", a one-byte file can take a full 4 KB cluster, so many small files can take a lot more space than just the number of bytes in the files. Deleted files continue to take up space until you empty the Recycle Bin. System Restore points can gobble up loads of space, depending on your settings in Control Panel | System | System Protection. The hidden system files hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys can take up several times as much space as your total RAM. As I said, these are just a few possible places to start your research. There are many others. Good luck! RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64) "frankfleck" wrote in message ... I have vista home premium, 200gb hard drive. i had not been paying attention until I received a warning that I was running out of space. Being sort of a dummy, I took computer to Best Buy. They ran diagnostics. They found no problems. Then they cleaned it up and optimized it. When I got it home the C drive showed 177gb capacity with 135gb free space. Within 3 days my free space was reduced by approx 25gb. I downloaded and ran Auslogics Defrag and my free space was again 135gb. But in the last 5 days my free space has been disappearing. It's at 113gb right now. I realize that's plenty of free space, but I'd like to rectify this problem before I'm close to showing full again. Can someone help me? -- frankfleck Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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hard drive appears nearly full but is only 25% used
Hi, Frank.
This question gets asked often, so Google or Bing should find plenty of answers for you. But the answers come in many parts because there are many causes for your question - so there are many partial answers. Just a few candidates: Since files are stored on the disk in fixed-size "clusters" or "allocation units", a one-byte file can take a full 4 KB cluster, so many small files can take a lot more space than just the number of bytes in the files. Deleted files continue to take up space until you empty the Recycle Bin. System Restore points can gobble up loads of space, depending on your settings in Control Panel | System | System Protection. The hidden system files hiberfil.sys and pagefile.sys can take up several times as much space as your total RAM. As I said, these are just a few possible places to start your research. There are many others. Good luck! RC -- R. C. White, CPA San Marcos, TX Microsoft Windows MVP Windows Live Mail 2009 (14.0.8089.0726) in Win7 Ultimate x64) "frankfleck" wrote in message ... I have vista home premium, 200gb hard drive. i had not been paying attention until I received a warning that I was running out of space. Being sort of a dummy, I took computer to Best Buy. They ran diagnostics. They found no problems. Then they cleaned it up and optimized it. When I got it home the C drive showed 177gb capacity with 135gb free space. Within 3 days my free space was reduced by approx 25gb. I downloaded and ran Auslogics Defrag and my free space was again 135gb. But in the last 5 days my free space has been disappearing. It's at 113gb right now. I realize that's plenty of free space, but I'd like to rectify this problem before I'm close to showing full again. Can someone help me? -- frankfleck Posted via http://www.vistaheads.com |
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hard drive appears nearly full but is only 25% used
Previously on microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management,
frankfleck said: I have vista home premium, 200gb hard drive. i had not been paying attention until I received a warning that I was running out of space. Being sort of a dummy, I took computer to Best Buy. They ran diagnostics. They found no problems. Then they cleaned it up and optimized it. When I got it home the C drive showed 177gb capacity with 135gb free space. Within 3 days my free space was reduced by approx 25gb. I downloaded and ran Auslogics Defrag and my free space was again 135gb. But in the last 5 days my free space has been disappearing. It's at 113gb right now. I realize that's plenty of free space, but I'd like to rectify this problem before I'm close to showing full again. Can someone help me? In addition to what RC wrote, it may also be a sign that the drive or controller is going bad. If the computer is detecting, rightly or wrongly, that sectors of the drive are bad, the system will mark them as unusable and shrink the available space accordingly. If diagnostics were run specifically to check for this and found nothing, then either nothing is wrong or it's wrong in such a way that systemically probing each sector fails to find the problem. That is possible, that has happened to me once, on a Win2K computer. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org Double ROT13 encoded for your protection "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. |
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hard drive appears nearly full but is only 25% used
Previously on microsoft.public.windows.vista.file_management,
frankfleck said: I have vista home premium, 200gb hard drive. i had not been paying attention until I received a warning that I was running out of space. Being sort of a dummy, I took computer to Best Buy. They ran diagnostics. They found no problems. Then they cleaned it up and optimized it. When I got it home the C drive showed 177gb capacity with 135gb free space. Within 3 days my free space was reduced by approx 25gb. I downloaded and ran Auslogics Defrag and my free space was again 135gb. But in the last 5 days my free space has been disappearing. It's at 113gb right now. I realize that's plenty of free space, but I'd like to rectify this problem before I'm close to showing full again. Can someone help me? In addition to what RC wrote, it may also be a sign that the drive or controller is going bad. If the computer is detecting, rightly or wrongly, that sectors of the drive are bad, the system will mark them as unusable and shrink the available space accordingly. If diagnostics were run specifically to check for this and found nothing, then either nothing is wrong or it's wrong in such a way that systemically probing each sector fails to find the problem. That is possible, that has happened to me once, on a Win2K computer. -- Jeffrey Kaplan www.gordol.org Double ROT13 encoded for your protection "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." - Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. |