Storage Space lost cannot explain it

[Paul W. Stoecker, Ph.D.]

I am trying to figure out something that is quite odd. I have a
system with an 80 GB drive. There appears to be only about 10 GB left
on the drive, the files that are on the same drive only take up about
25 GB, including the pagefile and system restore.

That leave quite a bit of storage space that is used but unaccounted
for...the system has been acting really strange, including slow
performance and today it finally wouldn't allow me to log in.

It was scanned for viruses and spyware. All patches were always
applied within a couple of days.

Has anyone ever seen this behavior? I know that the registry finally
ended up being corrupted and I just reinstalled the OS, but am
wondering now if anyone has any idea of what was taking up all of the
storage space on this box.

Thanks,

paul

 

[devil_satan2003]

I am trying to figure out something that is quite odd. I have a
system with an 80 GB drive. There appears to be only about 10 GB left
on the drive, the files that are on the same drive only take up about
25 GB, including the pagefile and system restore.

That leave quite a bit of storage space that is used but unaccounted
for...the system has been acting really strange, including slow
performance and today it finally wouldn't allow me to log in.

It was scanned for viruses and spyware. All patches were always
applied within a couple of days.

Has anyone ever seen this behavior? I know that the registry finally
ended up being corrupted and I just reinstalled the OS, but am
wondering now if anyone has any idea of what was taking up all of the
storage space on this box.

Thanks,

paul

try defragging, occasionaly that will bring up more hard drive space,
dunno whether it'll work for that amount though!

 

[Steve C. Ray]

Could be that the hard drive is going belly up.

 

[Nevermore]

Could be that the hard drive is going belly up.

This may not help at all but I have been using a free program called
SequoiaView that graphically (by using a "treemap" systemt) shows all files,
directories etcetera on a drive. I would be tempted to run it to see what it
says. Anyway, for what it is worth, the link is
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ .