Strange Issue w/xp-IBMT42

[Joel Guzman]

I've had my new laptop for a while and attempted to do a defrag, the
strangest thing happened, it told me that I only have 12% remaining disk
space, on a 33+Gig hard drive, I know that i have atleast 60% off free space
in my hard drive disk.

When I right click the C drive and click properties, it shows approximately
4Gig left. When I right click all the folders in the C drive it doesn't even
add up to 10 Gig, even when I display hidden folders.

Can someone help with this issue?

 

[Guest]

Joel,

Go to Start > My Computer > right click on your C: Drive > Select properties

In the properties box record your used space and your free space and post

back with the results.

Joe

Kemco IT Professional

 

[Daniel Crichton]

Joel wrote on Mon, 8 May 2006 08:44:36 -0400:

I've had my new laptop for a while and attempted to do a defrag, the
strangest thing happened, it told me that I only have 12% remaining disk
space, on a 33+Gig hard drive, I know that i have atleast 60% off free
space in my hard drive disk.

When I right click the C drive and click properties, it shows
approximately 4Gig left. When I right click all the folders in the C drive
it doesn't even add up to 10 Gig, even when I display hidden folders.

Can someone help with this issue?

If you have System Restore enabled, you will have a chunk of space taken up
by restore points. You cannot access these from inside XP (they are in the
System Volume Information hidden folder, and if you include it in your right
click on all folders on drive C it will be ignored). You can reduce the
amount of space System Restore uses to free some space - I'd avoid disabling
it completely as it's handy to be able to recover older versions of files
(especially the registry) in cases of corruption.

Dan