Ghost drive

[Egeides]

I have a 30Gig hard drive. I see 3Gig into documents, 12Gig into programs. Temps are emptied. It was defraged 2 months ago. I passed Kapersky antivirus and nothing. And I have 95Mo left :O

3Gig + 12Gig + Windows = 30Gig

Right, so Windows does lots of non-sense as I just passed from 350Mo to 95Mo just by... listening to a DVD. Someone, anyone, please elucidate this voodoo...

A program showing where the space or HDD consumption is might help. At least if I could delete it...

Specs:

Windows XP from ThinkPad R50 installed one year ago, I think it's with Service Pack 2 (might be the thing... but would it eat 15 Gig?!)

[gryphon]

check your pagefile, system restore points, installer en uninstall files. You might find another 10gigs in them with some "luck".

[Phoenix]

in windows xp pro (i presume you use..)

try to right click on my computer, then manage.

then disk management, there you see your disks/partitions

check it out there...

maybe you arent using the whole disk..

black is unpartitioned, and can be just right click on the black and see for your self.. its not that hard :P

[Andrew]

CCleaner should find some junk to delete.

But yah, system restore can take up lots of room, although its only a % of hard drive. I think 12% is default?

[Egeides]

Thanks, I will give a check to all this. But I might just get bored if nothing gets better and reformat to put Windows Vista's beta.

[Phoenix]

Thanks, I will give a check to all this. But I might just get bored if nothing gets better and reformat to put Windows Vista's beta.

Looks at Gryphon... Gryph, you have tried that one...

check the option to view hidden files, and find your c:Recycler then open the folders with those ID-numbers ****-*********-*** etc. and empty those folders (one for each user)

[gryphon]

Yep, still have a computer running Vista2 with Office 2007 and such. Must say I like it mor then I thought I whould.

[GhostHunter]

Where can you get the beta version?

I'm getting my 4200+ on wednesday, and I plan to run x64 XP Pro, and hopefully Vista.

[Egeides]

CCleaner washed everything and got me 9,xxGig more for my 30Gig hard drive. Thanks Andrew! And thanks everyone for helping.

It seems that all the crap on a computer can really take 1/3 of the hard drive. Even when it wasn't found manually as bulky files in temp folders.