Thread: Disk Space Program?

Originally Posted by Joseph_Stalin

Just wondering, as I have a lot of downloaded episodes of shows and such, some big programs, and other things like sound samples, but I can't account for about 30 gigs of disk space. I'd just like to know if there is any kind of program which can locate centralized areas and folders where most of my used disk space is. Thanks in advance.
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When I have that problem I just go into windows explorer and follow the large filesizes in folders. Tends to work =P

also, try defrag.

you lost 30 gig ?!?

just a shot in the dark,
but are you sure that 30 gig isn't due to a different partition?
Go control panel -> admin tools -> computer management -> disk management
and see how many partitions your "disk 0" has (or whatever disk number you've lost the 30 gig on)

I have seen pre-made pc's (dell, packard bell, etc) that have a FAT32 partition not mapped to any drive letters (no idea why)

It might even be 30 gig's of completely unpartitioned space, just sitting there


other than that,
start -> search -> all files & folders
type * in the name field
expand the "more advanced options"
in file type, select "folder"
tick the hidden & system boxes
you can specify a minimum folder size, as well if you want, say larger than 1 gig
click search
then sort by size
see what you get

but chances are if you really can't account for 30 gig, it's unlikely to be a single folder



*edit*
how do you know it's 30 gig, btw
cause you never actually get the space that the disk says it has
on a 400Gb drive, for example, you only really have 370Gb (or there abouts)
it's an underhand marketing ploy (calculating the disk size in 1000's rather than 1024's)

http://windirstat.info/

Download, extract, run the exe.

You're welcome.

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml

There you are, TreeSize - looks good, works well (not necessarily in that order).