System drive reading more full than it should be


  1. birkbott
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    Windows 7 Ultimate 64 bit
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    System drive reading more full than it should be


    Hello all,
    I recently noticed that my 1TB system drive only had 331gb free space on it, but I can not locate what is using up so much space. If I check the properties of all the folders on the drive it only adds up to around 200gigs.

    Any idea where the extra 400 gigs could be coming from?

    I have tried disabling system restore, I have run disk cleanup. I'm stumped. Any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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  3. Jonathan_King
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    Windows 7 Professional x64
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    You can use a disk mapping program to see where all your space is going. Here's one I like: WinDirStat - Windows Directory Statistics
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  4. birkbott
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    Awesome, totally worked. Turned out it was a video file stored in a temp directory for a DVD to MPEG program I was running.

    Thanks!
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  6. Jonathan_King
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    Nice! I'm glad to hear that worked for you.

    Any other questions, fee free to ask them!
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  7. jebuchanan
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    Windows 7 Ultimate x64 (Retail)
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    Something else to try would be to remove extra/obsolete restore points stored on that drive.
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