Hard Drive Space Gone - Cleared Restore and Used CCleaner

Hi Geeks,

So far you guys have been amazing in helping me get this year old laptop up to par.

I have another issue though (issue #2)

My Hard Drive space does not add up. At first you will see in the picture that my C: drive has about 70GB free (out of 287GB). I used some HD scanner to see where the big files are and to my suprise I was only using 35.8 GB (As you see the BIG portion is Windows but only using 16GB)

http://forums.majorgeeks.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=125134&stc=1&d=1258354277

Well I come here, do a search...find out the restore on here eats up space. I clear that up, I already manually went through everything, use CCleaner to rid some more. I am doing well up to 114GB Free / 287GB. STILL doesn't make sense.

I know vista takes up a bunch but I feel like I am missing close to 100GB of space.

Is there any other program I can use to figure out what is eating up my space?

Thanks in advance - Syn

 

I like Space Sniffer for fast overview. It doesn't have a right-click "explore here" function whic would be helpful but I find it much easier to read than the program you used.

WinDirStat is another one but it won't show some hidden files by default.

Your Windows folder looks a bit large but I would leave it alone and concentrate on surprisingly large files that space sniffer or windirstat might show you.

 

Those programs probably would of done the trick!! I found it! I was defraging my disk last night and it was 8 hours in and still going. I did some research and found people prefered using Auslogic Defrag. I picked it up and love the face you can analyze before.

10 second scan I see all these 5Gig files of videos I had put together for families (Analog to Digital transfers). I guess when I render each one they are in a Hidden C: Folder called program Data. I right clicked, hit locate. BAM 117 Gig folder. C ya and Now it all seems fine and dandy.

Nice to know too because I noticed I was losing a few Gigs each movie I did. Now I know where those pesky buggers hide.

Thanks again MG, consider this mystery solved!

Syn

 

Thanks for posting back with the resolution to your problem. I'll have to take a look at Auslogics defrag, I didn't realize you could pinpoint files in the preview.