Missing Hard Drive Space !!!

[Schmersa]

I have my OS loaded into an 11gb partition of a 20gb
drive. I have been trying to reduce the size of the
files so I can backup more easily. When I check
properties on the C drive, the space used is 8.9gb.
However, when I check each folder separately and then add
them up, it is less than 6gb. Where has the other space
(~3gb) gone??

 

[Frank Jelenko]

I have my OS loaded into an 11gb partition of a 20gb
drive. I have been trying to reduce the size of the
files so I can backup more easily. When I check
properties on the C drive, the space used is 8.9gb.
However, when I check each folder separately and then add
them up, it is less than 6gb. Where has the other space
(~3gb) gone??

Pagefile? Do you have hibernate enabled?

To see the size of the page file and hiberfile, in Windows Explorer, Tools,
Folder Options, View, uncheck Hide Protected Operating System Files. Click
OK to close the Tools menu. Click on c:\.

HTH

 

[Jim Macklin]

Also, a 5 KB file will take two clusters and mean that there
are 3 KB wasted space.


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| | > I have my OS loaded into an 11gb partition of a 20gb
| > drive. I have been trying to reduce the size of the
| > files so I can backup more easily. When I check
| > properties on the C drive, the space used is 8.9gb.
| > However, when I check each folder separately and then
add
| > them up, it is less than 6gb. Where has the other
space
| > (~3gb) gone??
| >
| Pagefile? Do you have hibernate enabled?
|
| To see the size of the page file and hiberfile, in Windows
Explorer, Tools,
| Folder Options, View, uncheck Hide Protected Operating
System Files. Click
| OK to close the Tools menu. Click on c:\.
|
| HTH
|
|

 

[schmersa]

Frank,

Thanks for the reply. I have already unchecked this box
and there is no hibernate file on the C drive. The
paging file (virtual memory) is on a different drive, and
is 1.5gb, about double the RAM size.

end/SAS

 

[Frank Jelenko]

Frank,

Thanks for the reply. I have already unchecked this box
and there is no hibernate file on the C drive. The
paging file (virtual memory) is on a different drive, and
is 1.5gb, about double the RAM size.

Couple ideas:

If you have Partition Magic, you could boot from the Rescue Disks and check
to see how much 'wasted' space there is. As is mentioned above, amount of
wasted space depends on your cluster size - typically, cluster sizes > 4K
will have more wasted space.

The other thing to remember is that 1,000,000 bytes = .976MB. That is, when
using MB, GB the number of bytes is divided by 1024.

If the wasted space doesn't account for the gap, I would try a Chkdsk /r -
i.e., there might be a problem with your file system.

Good luck.

 

[schmersa]

thanks again for the tips. I have systematically run
properties on all the folders on the C drive and have
both the size in bytes - and the size on disk. The
difference is only about 200mb. So taking the size on
disk of all folders, and the files on the root directory,
I total about 4.7gb.

When I do properties on the C drive at the root level, I
get used space of 9.08gb and size on disk of 8.45gb. I
understand what I have been told about the difference
between the 2 types of measurements - but shouldn't that
be indicated under the properties for the folders in the
field Size on Disk?

I think I will go ahead and rund a chkdsk /r to see if
there isn't something else wrong.

Thanks again.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have my OS loaded into an 11gb partition of a 20gb
drive. I have been trying to reduce the size of the
files so I can backup more easily. When I check
properties on the C drive, the space used is 8.9gb.
However, when I check each folder separately and then add
them up, it is less than 6gb. Where has the other space
(~3gb) gone??

Control Panel - Folder Options - View and make sure you have 'show
hidden and system files' selected, and 'Hide Protected mode files'
unchecked (ignore the warning). Apply, Ok and try again - there are a
*lot* of protected files, including most of the system, and the restore
points.

On an 11GB partition, restore will be being allotted 1.3GB - you might
well cut that down to say 400MB, in Control Panel - System - System
restore highlight the drive, take Settings and slide the slide over.