Actual free space on drive?

[Dick M.]

My C Drive is filled as follows according to Xp:
(1.63 Gb) WINDOWS
(1.61 Gb) Program Files
(725.56 Mb) ScanSoft Documents
(526.11 Mb) System Volume Information
(327.46 Mb) Documents and Settings
(7.58 Mb) Canon
(3.52 Mb) Recycled
(3.10 Mb) WUTemp
(1.14 Mb) SpeedStream1020
(5.57 Kb) temp
(1,000 Bytes) 8781f072e39b5d9e37d6665cd1a01ef5

The free space is listed as 1.85 Gb and the used space as 5.58 Gb.
The size of the partition is a bit less than 8 Gb, I think.

Where are the restore files? Is the 1.85 Gb free space shown
actually unused?

 

[Phil \(purplehaz\)]

My C Drive is filled as follows according to Xp:
(1.63 Gb) WINDOWS
(1.61 Gb) Program Files
(725.56 Mb) ScanSoft Documents
(526.11 Mb) System Volume Information
(327.46 Mb) Documents and Settings
(7.58 Mb) Canon
(3.52 Mb) Recycled
(3.10 Mb) WUTemp
(1.14 Mb) SpeedStream1020
(5.57 Kb) temp
(1,000 Bytes) 8781f072e39b5d9e37d6665cd1a01ef5

The free space is listed as 1.85 Gb and the used space as 5.58 Gb.
The size of the partition is a bit less than 8 Gb, I think.

Where are the restore files?

Restore files = (526.11 Mb) System Volume Information

Is the 1.85 Gb free space shown
actually unused?

Yes.

 

[Alex Nichol]

My C Drive is filled as follows according to Xp:
(1.63 Gb) WINDOWS
(1.61 Gb) Program Files
(725.56 Mb) ScanSoft Documents
(526.11 Mb) System Volume Information
(327.46 Mb) Documents and Settings
(7.58 Mb) Canon
(3.52 Mb) Recycled
(3.10 Mb) WUTemp
(1.14 Mb) SpeedStream1020
(5.57 Kb) temp
(1,000 Bytes) 8781f072e39b5d9e37d6665cd1a01ef5

The free space is listed as 1.85 Gb and the used space as 5.58 Gb.
The size of the partition is a bit less than 8 Gb, I think.

Where are the restore files? Is the 1.85 Gb free space shown
actually unused?

The restore files are the items in System Volume Information, and the
1.85 free is just that. You probably have a pagefile.sys and possibly a
hiberfil.sys around, but this looks quite healthy.

If you have another partition I would try to persuade ScanSoft to hold
its documents over there instead, and also move the My Documents there
if you have not already. The Documents and Settings will include that
under a 'yourname' folder, and you can right drag it over and Move Here.
That will also have your Temporary Internet files and OE mail folder -
you can move both of those too; in Internet Options (click Settings,
Change folder') and in OE itself (Tools - Options - Maintenance, click
Store Folder'). In general try to keep data separated from system
components