hard drive near capacity, but is it really?

[jlcb0212]

I have a dell desktop. Recently added another hard drive (120GB). That went
fine. I kept the original 10 GB drive as the boot drive and moved docs and
photos to new drive to make room. However, even with all those files removed
(about 4-5 GB) the old drive shows drive nearing capacity and I keep getting
drive near capacity messages. In file explorer, I cannot see what files are
making up this huge amount shown when I right click on "documents and
settings" under my name. Is something wrong with my computer. Did the
computer not make available the additional space when I moved files to the
new drive?

 

[Shenan Stanley]

I have a dell desktop. Recently added another hard drive (120GB).
That went fine. I kept the original 10 GB drive as the boot drive and
moved docs and photos to new drive to make room. However, even with
all those files removed (about 4-5 GB) the old drive shows drive
nearing capacity and I keep getting drive near capacity messages. In
file explorer, I cannot see what files are making up this huge amount
shown when I right click on "documents and settings" under my name.
Is something wrong with my computer. Did the computer not make
available the additional space when I moved files to the new drive?

First - turn off system restore.
See if that frees up space. If so, change the amount of space it is allowed
to utilize.

Second, if you want an easier way to find out what is taking up space (and
you are a VISUAL person) try this:
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

 

[Mike Hall]

Do a search for a program called 'Treesize'.. it is a little less confusing
than Shenan's suggestion..