Lost 6gb Hard drive space?

[Headtheball]

Two days ago I checked my remaining disk space and it said that I had 20gb
left. Today it tells me that I have 14GB left. I have not installed anything
or downloaded anything that would use this space so what could be wrong?

30gb Quantum Fireball HD
AMD Athlon xp 2000+ processor
IGB DDram
AS Rock K7VM2 MOBO
Nvidia TNT2 Graphics
Windows XP Home
Office 2003 Professional

 

[Gerry Cornell]

To see what is on your hard drive you need to change a number of settings. Select Start, Control Panel, Folder Options, View, Advanced Settings, and check "Show hidden files and folders". Whilst there uncheck "Hide File Extensions". Also check "Display the contents of system folders".

Next enter Windows Explorer and select View, Details and then select Choose Details -check all options except "Comments" and "File System".

Now to find the larger files on your system. Place the cursor on your C drive and select Search, check All Files and Folders. Select further criteria, What size is it? -check "Large (more than 1 mb)", More advanced options -check Search System Folders, Search Hidden Files and Folders and Search Sub-folders" and then click on Search. Sort / resort the results by clicking on "Size" over the file size column. Make a list of the largest files and post the details here.



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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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[The Dude]

Two days ago I checked my remaining disk space and it said that I had 20gb
left. Today it tells me that I have 14GB left. I have not installed anything
or downloaded anything that would use this space so what could be wrong?

30gb Quantum Fireball HD
AMD Athlon xp 2000+ processor
IGB DDram
AS Rock K7VM2 MOBO
Nvidia TNT2 Graphics
Windows XP Home
Office 2003 Professional

System restore enabled???
SR files can take up a lot of space.
You can undo all bu the last restore point,right click the
drive(s)-properties,cleanup,more options.
Have you added hardware in the last two days OR updated any drivers??

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[Headtheball]

Hi Dude,
the only hardware that I have added is the 512mb Ram that I was having
problems with earlier. System restore is enabled but only set to 6% or just
over 1 GB