Harddisk Usage in Windows Vista ?

[Guest]

I have a problem i noticed that whenever i restart my computer that i have
less harddisk space left, other then that vista works great im using the Beta
2 public previes version. Could someone please tell me what would be causing
my space to disappear ?? Cause like i said everytime i restart i have less
space left. i Started today i had 100.7 gb left i restarted and i had 98.2
left after another restart i had only 97.9 and another restart 97.8 and so on
any help would be great.

 

[Andre Da Costa [Extended64]]

Sounds like System restore, click Start > All Programs > Accesories > System
Tools > Disk Clean up > More Options (tab) > click the Clean up button under
System Restore. It will remove all Restore points except the last one.

Click Start > right click Computer > Properties > click "Advance System
Settings" >System Protection > uncheck all partitions except the one that
Vista is installed.
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[Guest]

I already did that but it doesn't do any good and i just noticed it went from
97.7 to 96.9 GB so it's really strange cause i wasn't even using the PC.

 

[Guest]

Well it seem to be a problem with defragmentation to, im doing a defrag and
what happens every few minutes my hard drive starts to shrink and less space
i have, so a definate problem there very strange that is for sure, i hope
someone will look into that cause im definatly not gonna buy this OS if my
Hard Drive gets smaller every time i defrag and restart my pc.

 

[Colin Barnhorst]

Have you filed a bug?

Well it seem to be a problem with defragmentation to, im doing a defrag
and
what happens every few minutes my hard drive starts to shrink and less
space
i have, so a definate problem there very strange that is for sure, i hope
someone will look into that cause im definatly not gonna buy this OS if my
Hard Drive gets smaller every time i defrag and restart my pc.

 

[Richard Urban]

Likely file indexing for the search function.

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[Guest]

Yes i already filed a bug, still anoying that from time to time your harddisk
shrinks, i reinstalled vista 3 days ago for 2 days all together no problems,
i go to bed with 123 gb left on the harddisk, i get up and i have 119 gb left
so what happened to the other 4 gb i had that is what i would love to know.

 

[Guest]

I know the feeling. I installed on my laptop and have dropped from having 13
gig of free space on my hard drive to having 8.55 (as of this moment). Not
installing any new programs. Not receiving huge emails. Tried all of the disk
clean up tricks. Cleared old restore points. And still seem to be loosing
space on my drive. Hope it eventually stops or I figure out where it's going
before I don't have enough space to run Windows anymore. Good luck.

 

[Guest]

alright so it's not just me who has this problem, i hope someone can tell us
what could be causing this and maybe have any idea how to fix this problem or
at least a temp solution.

 

[Guest]

I know the feeling. I installed Vista on my laptop. Had almost 13 gig free on
the hard drive when done. Now I'm down to 8.55 gig. No new programs
installed. Cleared all the usual temp, etc. files. Have done all the disk
clean ups. Even got rid of all but the latest System Restore Points. No
change. Hope I eventually figure it out before I don't have enough drive
space left for Windows to run. Good Luck

 

[R. McCarty]

For Vista, the "Missing" space is usually from the size of the folder
\%Windir%\WinSxS (Side-by-Side). It will average ~3.3 Gigabytes
compared with 20 Megabytes or less on a similar XP setup. I'm
assuming this is debug/diagnostic code and will not appear in the
final version(?).

 

[Tony]

No I have the same problem here had 12 gigs after install now I have 5.2gigs
left have not installed any thing new on drive so where oh where is the
space going.
Tony

 

[Guest]

I dont think that this is the case as im currently missing 12 gb while i have
not installed anything new and this happened within 1 day. Also the folder
you said only has around 3.2 gb so that can not be it.

 

[milleron]

alright so it's not just me who has this problem, i hope someone can tell us
what could be causing this and maybe have any idea how to fix this problem or
at least a temp solution.

It's not just you, but it's not everyone. I installed on a small 12GB
partition. I had 3.5GB free after install, and a week later, I still
have 3.5GB free. Perhaps what's going on (indexing or whatever)
respects the space left and stops when you're down to some arbitrary
percentage or absolute amount of free space. Please keep reporting on
the problem to let us know if it continues to eat all your drive or if
it controls itself at some point.

 

[Guest]

At this moment it holded at 111gb since yesterday, however i decided to turn
the indexing completely off and also the automatic scanning by defender so
now it's just waiting im doing a bit of experimenting to see if i can track
down where it's coming from, if i find out what it is i will definatly let
you know here.

 

[Guest]

Well it finally stopped taking my space away, i gues it has something to do
with the indexing because i completely turned it off and now it doesn't take
my Space away anymore.