Missing free space

My Disk Drive C have 9.76GB. After using for about a year, my disk seem to be
running low on disk memory. I have use onecare service to scan/clean and tune
up. A check on disk C : Document and setting -1.49GB / Program files -1.46GB
/ Windows -4.1GB. Total usage on disk C =7.05GB. After subtracting the usage
memory, I should have at least 2.71GB of memory left, but my system doctor's
sensor only shows 334mb! Where are the rest of the free space? Anyone can
help? Thanks.

"JamesL" <JamesL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67F755DB-AC8F-4727-B887-31304E9D54C3@microsoft.com...
> My Disk Drive C have 9.76GB. After using for about a year, my disk seem to
> be
> running low on disk memory. I have use onecare service to scan/clean and
> tune
> up. A check on disk C : Document and setting -1.49GB / Program
> files -1.46GB
> / Windows -4.1GB. Total usage on disk C =7.05GB. After subtracting the
> usage
> memory, I should have at least 2.71GB of memory left, but my system
> doctor's
> sensor only shows 334mb! Where are the rest of the free space? Anyone can
> help? Thanks.
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Right click on your drive and click Properties. Whatever that tells you is
what you have. Ignore erroneous reports from Norton.

Might just be time to get a bigger HDD, ya think..?
http://windirstat.sourceforge.net/
http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/index.html
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/Main_Frame/Info.html
May help you to see what's going on..
Cheers
j;-j

"JamesL" <JamesL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:67F755DB-AC8F-4727-B887-31304E9D54C3@microsoft.com...
> My Disk Drive C have 9.76GB. After using for about a year, my disk seem to
> be
> running low on disk memory. I have use onecare service to scan/clean and
> tune
> up. A check on disk C : Document and setting -1.49GB / Program
> files -1.46GB
> / Windows -4.1GB. Total usage on disk C =7.05GB. After subtracting the
> usage
> memory, I should have at least 2.71GB of memory left, but my system
> doctor's
> sensor only shows 334mb! Where are the rest of the free space? Anyone can
> help? Thanks.

On Tue, 20 Feb 2007 09:28:37 -0800, JamesL
<JamesL@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>My Disk Drive C have 9.76GB. After using for about a year, my disk seem to be
>running low on disk memory. I have use onecare service to scan/clean and tune
>up. A check on disk C : Document and setting -1.49GB / Program files -1.46GB
>/ Windows -4.1GB. Total usage on disk C =7.05GB. After subtracting the usage
>memory, I should have at least 2.71GB of memory left, but my system doctor's
>sensor only shows 334mb! Where are the rest of the free space? Anyone can
>help? Thanks.

Given a drive this small you probably don't have a lot of memory,
either. The missing space is probably in the swapfile.