Hardly no memory

Hi i have a storage prob well i have a 18.6GB memory but i have recantly re installed XP and i have only 1.90GB left ive added a pic of it so there no confusion. Can sombody help me ?.

If i have this topic in wronge place can u tell me where to put it.

New to forum but liking what i see .


anyhow ...... PLZ HELP =[.

 

This is a freeware app that will tell you exactly what is on your PC, where it is, and how much room it is taking up.
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

XP should only take up 3 to 4GB

 

ok i done the scan .. but im not good at knowing comp space size but that not even close to how much space i should have ?.



ive added the results in a pic as follows :

 

That shows your using only 8.1GB, you should have over 10GB left. Goto Control Panel> Administrative tools>Computer Management>Disk Management. Take a screen shot and post what you see there. This is all we need to see.(thumbnail)

 

you could clear up some restore points and the recycle bin

 

also download crap cleaner would clear alot of space.

 

Here ... i duno where it all vanished Oo.

Btw scott_heyes89 as i said i only just re installed windows ... overwritten and ive checked all around i cant find any other hidden profiles with junk in.

 

Scott, that's not really the problem. CCleaner will clean up some space out of the 8300MB on that drive, but........
There are 10GB of HDD missing somewhere.

 

Anything els i can do to find out info?

 

When you re-installed your OS did you re-format, too?
When you were given the choice to set a place for XP did you choose the whole amount?

 

Well what i did was run it with cdXp first before OS and then select C: and overwritten and i choose yes but thats all then it installed windows.

i kno there somthing u can do with a floppydisk and MS-DOS but ive never done that Oo so i duno what to do.

 

Cant anybody help me =[ ? musksnipe ya helped me before i kno u can think of Somthing .

 

Good thinking, plodr. I was thinking it would show in the other view there, but unpartitioned space doesn't.

@revolution
If you don't see anything like plodr posted, click view and choose graphical. Drive 0 will show everything that is on your HDD and if it IS unpartitioned space, it will add up. If it's there and unpartitioned we can get it back into the main partition for you.

 

Here is what i see.

 

I'm calling for help! Hang in there!

 

well, this ain't the posse musknipe. Do you perhaps have a windows.old in your C: drive. Sometimes when reinstalling the OS a mistake is made and you end up with two OS's taking up space, easy enough to do.

 

I doubt it but to be on the sure side how i find out ? ive searches C: for another window folder if thats what u mean and its found nothing.

 

You could try and run a chkdsk to see if there's an error in free space report.

Just go to start->run and type chkdsk c: /f

/f is to tell it to automatically fixed errors. The scan will run the next time you turn the computer on.

 

Try a search for .old

I'm not sure what to do after that if you don't find it. I hunted around on the 'net and found nothing that really solves your problem.

I would wait for some more input on this first though.

 

I use a utility like you say called SpaceMonger. I think the newest version is shareware, but it's like winrar and you can just keep using the trial forever. However, I use an old no pay version just because I couldn't find the new version for some reason.