Windows 7 Disk Usage

Discussion in 'Software' started by mdonah, Mar 9, 2017.

  1. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Can anyone explain why Windows 7 is eating up disk space?

    I multi-boot and below is a picture showing free space then total space of my partitions. I don't have very many programs installed on Win 7 yet it's showing about 100 GB more usage than Win 8.1 or 10. Win 7 disk usage.jpg

    TIA.
     
    mdonah, Mar 9, 2017
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  2. MaxTurner

    MaxTurner Banned

    If you run something like Tree Size you will be able to see what it is.
     
    MaxTurner, Mar 9, 2017
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  3. mdonah

    mdonah Major Geek Extraordinaire

    Thanks Max. It turned out to be a Win XP .vhd (80 GB) I had created when I tried Windows Virtual Machine, VirtualBox or VMWare Workstation Player to run XP inside a virtual machine on Windows 7. For some reason the file didn't get deleted even though I told the VM software to do so.
     
    mdonah, Mar 9, 2017
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