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itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

I have 140 gig on my notebook, I am using 40 gigs..
where the hell is the other 100gigs???
Ive looked everywhere for it and cant find any files eating it up...

Ive heard about system restore and shadowing drives etc..
is this the cause?? anyone had this problem??

I want my 100 gig back hahahahha

Im using VISTA

dragstar · Joined: 12 Mar 2009

Even when you perform a clean installation, Vista usually backs up the previous installation, if there was one, in Windows.old. It's safe to delete, though I recommend looking through it for any files you may want to keep first. That should restore a LOT of space.

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

WinDirStat can show you a graphical representation of your drive.

Those can help you find where your hard drive space is being used.

http://windirstat.info/

the_beaver · Joined: 15 Jan 2003

Is the drive partitioned? If it is, the other 100 gigs will be D:

ladron · Joined: 20 Feb 2006

I only used Vista for about 3 days before going back to XP so I don't really know, but does Vista use a pagefile? maybe that extra space is being commandeered by the virtual memory?

itaewonguy · Joined: 25 Mar 2003

not partitoned...

SeoulnPepe · Joined: 13 Sep 2006 Location: Seoul

Some notebooks will have their own "backup" programs. I know the Lenovo/IBM ones do. It'll eat up all of your HDD, especially if the program is set to backup data periodically.

It may not be a Vista issue. Something similar happened to my friend's notebook, and he's on XP.

eamo · Joined: 08 Mar 2003 Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.

It could be System Restore. After a while Vista can build up a lot of restore points. You can delete all but the latest one in Disk Clean-up.

But 100GBs??!! System Restore doesn't use that much.....maybe 18-20GBs tops.

Look in Disk Management. Press Start Button then right-click Computer and choose Disk Management. You should see what's happening in there.

Tommy · Joined: 24 Aug 2005

Try deleting your porn file Very Happy

hugekebab · Joined: 05 Jan 2008

It sounds like it's not correctly reading your harddrive. run all the vista updates; there may be a specific issue with your harddrive that was sorted out.

in all likelyhood it's either partitioned or system restore has taken up all the space. Check the size of your temp folder, check the size of maybe your bittorrent folders (perhaps the files were being kept in another directory.) run crap cleaner; that might find the folder that's taking up all the space; it'll empty the temp and other annoying folders that tend to get full without you knowing.