Where did my Hard Drive space go?

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I am running an XP SP2 client with a 25 GB System Partition. My WINDOWS dir
is 18GB but I can not find out why. I checked every sub folder and nothing
comes up to 18GB. Anyone know what I can use to regain the space back? I
ran a defrag and the clean up.

Thanks - Sean
 
You might want to do a full system search (including the System
and Hidden Folders). Use the Size parameter and set the "At Least"
value to 10,000 (10 Megabytes or greater). This should locate all
the larger files on your system partition. Perhaps you can locate the
content that way or at least the largest files on the drive.
Normally, the two largest single files will be Pagefile.Sys and the
Hibernate module. But those are located in the Root of the System
partition, not in a sub-folder.
 
Sean,
I have been using this free program called Sequoiaview for a couple of years
.. I highly reccommend it. Read this description and see if it would interest
you:Sequoiaview
<<See your hard drive usage graphically
At first glance this might seem frivolous. What it does is it displays
every file on a specified drive as a block within a grid. Each block is
proportionate to the file size. It's use is precisely in the 'glance'
factor. In one glance you can spot exactly which files and folders are
hogging disk space.>>









If this sounds like something you could use, you can download it here:
http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/

I hope this helps
 
I faced a similar issue when using undelete pro by executive software, which
kept invisbly filling up the trash bin until the disk ran out of space. I had
to deinstall it and since then all the space is available. Yet if you do not
deploy this applications you might still check the setting of your trash bin
anyways.

Cheers
 
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