Who's hogging the hard disk?

[Doug Kanter]

Thanks to all who responded to my question. Please stay tuned - I'll be
visiting the offending computer tomorrow, and may have more questions.

 

[Lil' Dave]

I agree. She had some computer shexpert come over and take a look at the
machine. Instead of selling her a larger drive, the moron installed a 10mb
secondary drive. Now....how much effort would it have been to bring along a
laptop, back up her c: drive data, and install just one big drive? And, how
much more money from 10 mb to maybe 30 mb? About eleven bucks?

Hoping you mean 10 GB, not 10 millibits (mb) or MB (Megabytes). Don't think
you can find a 10 MB hard drive anymore period.

It would probably be advisable to clone to the 10 GB drive, make it
master/primary.

 

[Lil' Dave]

I agree. She had some computer shexpert come over and take a look at the
machine. Instead of selling her a larger drive, the moron installed a 10mb
secondary drive. Now....how much effort would it have been to bring along a
laptop, back up her c: drive data, and install just one big drive? And, how
much more money from 10 mb to maybe 30 mb? About eleven bucks?

10 mb, no such thing. 10 MB, yes, but hasn't been available for over a few
decades. Doubt if you can find one.
Sounds like 10 GB since your comparing to 30 GB at 11 bucks cost difference.
Cloning the 4 GB to the 10 GB makes sense, if its made the boot drive.

 

[kurttrail]

And that doesn't change the fact that you didn't answer his question.

Yeah, I did. I answered the general question of the OP. Who is hogging
the harddrive, and how to remedy it.

Oh, and by the way I made it through the eye of Wilma with nothing more
than landscape damage.

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[Doug Kanter]

Hoping you mean 10 GB, not 10 millibits (mb) or MB (Megabytes). Don't
think
you can find a 10 MB hard drive anymore period.

Right. That was a typo - doing fifteen things at once.

It would probably be advisable to clone to the 10 GB drive, make it
master/primary.

I'm debating that. Because the computer's been used as a landfill (and you
know what I mean), this would be a great time to reformat and reinstall.

 

[Leythos]

Yeah, I did. I answered the general question of the OP. Who is hogging
the harddrive, and how to remedy it.

Nice play on your answer - "the general" and missing that you didn't
address his question directly, only in a round-about way that anyone
would already be aware of.

Oh, and by the way I made it through the eye of Wilma with nothing more
than landscape damage.

What does that have to do with XP, Disk Size, or other things related to
the topic in this thread.

 

[kurttrail]

Nice play on your answer - "the general" and missing that you didn't
address his question directly, only in a round-about way that anyone
would already be aware of.

Look at the subject of this thread numbskull.

What does that have to do with XP, Disk Size, or other things related
to the topic in this thread.

Absolutely nothing but God didn't smite me down because YOU didn't like
my reply to the OP.

God saved me from his wrath, but he gave you a needle dick. He loves
me, and loves playing practical jokes on you!

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[cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user)]

Doug Kanter wrote:

Big Brother is using most of the rest. I wouldn't install XP on
anything smaller than a 10gb harddrive.

I routinely build with 8G C:, but I agree; 4G is too small for XP - as
Kurt says, the OS itself will use that fairly easily. As it is, 8G
would be tight if I didn't relocate lumpy stuff outside C:

You can turn off system restore, disk indexing, and hibernation to grab
back SOME of the harddrive back from Big Brother, but the best advice is
just to get a bigger harddrive.

With a PC that old, you may need to check it can see beyond the 8G and
32G limits in particular, and stay this side of 137G.

Cutting back SR and disabling fast user switching will help; so will
flushing web caches and shrinking the size allocations, and purging
any Temp and CD writing buffer leftovers. Multiple user accounts
waste a lot of space, too - as they duplicate the absurdly large IE
caches for each account!

Even so, 4G sounds like a tough job.

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[Plato]

A friend's hard disk (4gb) has only 300 mb left on it, which makes no sense,
considering how it's used. She doesn't download music or store photos on the
machine. And, her My Documents folder is only 1.4 mb in size. Other than
spending the next 3 nights browsing folders, is anyone aware of a utility
that will produce a list of folders sorted by size?

http://www.bootdisk.com/kentucky/disize14.zip
http://www.bootdisk.com/kentucky/driveuse.exe

 

[George]

Get a life man! One that doesn't consist of trying to outsmart someone
smarter than you....