Missing Disk Space

[nightstar]

I received one of our employees laptops today.

- System is connected to a domain
- System Restore shut off in domain policy

Pre Cleaning
- Laptop C partition is 85 Gig
- Free space is 4 Gig

- Logged on as admin
- Hidden files shown
- Protected files shown

- All temporary files deleted
- IE Cache Deleted
- Any other installers or uneeded files deleted

After Cleaning
- C drive properties states 85 Gig total 7 gig free
- Treesize states 39 Gig of files on drive
- Highlight all files in explorer and get properties, also states 39
gig of files on drive

- Ran checkdisk (no luck)

Ok so where did the other 40+ gig go? All Junk has been removed by
hand and via the system clean up utility.
Any other software to use to check what may be happening?

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I received one of our employees laptops today.

- System is connected to a domain
- System Restore shut off in domain policy

Pre Cleaning
- Laptop C partition is 85 Gig
- Free space is 4 Gig

- Logged on as admin
- Hidden files shown
- Protected files shown

- All temporary files deleted
- IE Cache Deleted
- Any other installers or uneeded files deleted

After Cleaning
- C drive properties states 85 Gig total 7 gig free
- Treesize states 39 Gig of files on drive
- Highlight all files in explorer and get properties, also states 39
gig of files on drive

- Ran checkdisk (no luck)

Ok so where did the other 40+ gig go? All Junk has been removed by
hand and via the system clean up utility.
Any other software to use to check what may be happening?

Products such as Symantec's GoBack are known to eat up large amounts
of disk space. Try one of these tools:
DriveUse:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

 

[John McGaw]

Products such as Symantec's GoBack are known to eat up large amounts
of disk space. Try one of these tools:
DriveUse:
http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html
Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/

I find that SequoiaView is a fine tool for determining where storage is
being used up:

http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/

Install, open up full screen, tell it to show free space, aim it a C:, and
let it scan. There are other programs with do similar things but the
display in this particular program just seems to make more sense than the
others I've seen.

John McGaw
http://johnmcgaw.com