Wondering what's taking up all my hard drive space?

Question

I have a 25 GB hard drive, and there's only 1 GB of free space left. I've got a utility called Folder Size which shows the size of folders in Windows "detail" view, but at the top level of my C: drive the folders only seem to contain about 4 GB. I'm wondering where this other 20 or so GB could be hiding.

Answer 1

pornos.

Answer 2

Browse your document, picture folders etc.... and see what seems to be taking up the most space. I guarantee it's pictures and videos etc... especially if you save pics in BMP format and not JPG or GIF.
Some programs and game files can take up loads of space too.

Answer 3

Run a scandisk, you may have lost clusters. Also run a virus scan, run Spybot Search & Destroy, Ewido, and Crap Cleaner (CCleaner). The last program is excellent for cleaning up hard disk space.

Answer 4

Large movies will eat up tons of megs but have you tryed defraging?
If you are runnign windows expect 2-5gigs of windows stuff.
Also programs can get huge go into add remove programs and see if you have anythign huge there.
or set a size restriction of above 200meg and do a genral search.
GD
Hope it helps...

Answer 5

Try "my computer" then right click drive c ,click properties, on the general tab you will see "disk cleanup", read the notes
you can delete temp files also. another tab will let you delete old restore points and check your disk for bad sectors or a defrag Joe

Answer 6

Though, you have a small hard drive...You are running too many programs.

Go to Start>Run>msconfig>Start up>

Now uncheck everything except security.
Everything else you can open on your desk top.

Answer 7

SpaceMonger is a nice utility for seeing what is using hard disk space.

http://www.snapfiles.com/get/spacemonger.html

Answer 8

if you have any sort of movies pictures or music thats most likely your problem

Answer 9

This free sofware works great for me.....


http://windirstat.info/

Answer 10

google 'SpaceMonger'