Hardisk Space Full

[tuuoploki]

Last time i checked i had plenty of GBs free on my C:\ drive. today i got a low drive space message and i only had 180MB left. Something odd is happening in windows because i haven't installed anything lately.

Can anyone recommend a good place, or some programs, to start hunting for where the space is going?

Also i found a odd sized folder. (4.6GB)

C:\Users\Xisuma\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Media Player

Ive also been having trouble with WMP12 > http://www.sevenforums.com/music-pictures-video/98481-wmp12-issues.html

thanks for your time

 

[electrotune1200]

If you're not interested in saving all of your System Restore points. You could free up space there. It will save your most recent save point though.

Type "Disk Cleanup" into Windows Search. Hit Enter.

Click on the Advanced Options. Select clean up System Restore Points. Then click OK. It may take a moment to complete.

You should be able to gain a few GB's by doing this.

 

[whs]

Do the following:

1. Run WinDirStat. That will tell you exactly what's on your disk - except for the shadowstorage
2. Run an elevated Command Prompt with the command vssadmin list shadowtorage. That will show how much space was allocated for restore points (shadows)

Come back with the results and we'll see what we can do about it. Snips of the left top pane of WinDirStat and the cmd window will help.

 

[JonM33]

How do you have your partitions set up? I see that you have several hard drives. Not sure which one is your main system drive and how you have it partitioned.

 

[tuuoploki]

If you're not interested in saving all of your System Restore points. You could free up space there. It will save your most recent save point though.

Type "Disk Cleanup" into Windows Search. Hit Enter.

Click on the Advanced Options. Select clean up System Restore Points. Then click OK. It may take a moment to complete.

You should be able to gain a few GB's by doing this.

unfortunately only 30MB

 

[Tews]

This will show you how to add Disk Cleanup to the context menu of all hard drives in the Windows 7 and Vista Computer window to make using Disk Cleanup easier to use on a selected hard drive.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/94326-disk-cleanup-add-context-menu.html?ltr=D

 

[tuuoploki]

Do the following:

1. Run WinDirStat. That will tell you exactly what's on your disk - except for the shadowstorage
2. Run an elevated Command Prompt with the command vssadmin list shadowtorage. That will show how much space was allocated for restore points (shadows)

Come back with the results and we'll see what we can do about it. Snips of the left top pane of WinDirStat and the cmd window will help.

I don't use System restore

WinDirStat just crashes when i run then scan

 

[tuuoploki]

How do you have your partitions set up? I see that you have several hard drives. Not sure which one is your main system drive and how you have it partitioned.

C - 49.8GB
D - 465GB
E - 415GB (same drive as E)
F - 931GB (same drive as D)
G - 931GB
H - 931GB

 

[tuuoploki]

Do the following:

1. Run WinDirStat. That will tell you exactly what's on your disk - except for the shadowstorage
2. Run an elevated Command Prompt with the command vssadmin list shadowtorage. That will show how much space was allocated for restore points (shadows)

Come back with the results and we'll see what we can do about it. Snips of the left top pane of WinDirStat and the cmd window will help.

ignore my last message. It seems to not respond when running, but after leaving it on for long enough it finished what it was doing and i could use the program again

Imageshack - 20002530.jpg

 

[tuuoploki]

Who has marked this as solved??? My problem hasn't been solved at all

 

[Tews]

Have you run disc cleanup yet?

 

[whs]

Do the following:

1. Run WinDirStat. That will tell you exactly what's on your disk - except for the shadowstorage
2. Run an elevated Command Prompt with the command vssadmin list shadowtorage. That will show how much space was allocated for restore points (shadows)

Come back with the results and we'll see what we can do about it. Snips of the left top pane of WinDirStat and the cmd window will help.

I don't use System restore

WinDirStat just crashes when i run then scan

That is very strange. It never crashed on me and I also have never heard of anybody else having that problem. Maybe you have a more serious problem in your system. Where can we start to look? For starters, have a peek at the event viewer.
PS: I also recommend to use imaging. Here is one option.

 

[tuuoploki]

Do the following:

1. Run WinDirStat. That will tell you exactly what's on your disk - except for the shadowstorage
2. Run an elevated Command Prompt with the command vssadmin list shadowtorage. That will show how much space was allocated for restore points (shadows)

Come back with the results and we'll see what we can do about it. Snips of the left top pane of WinDirStat and the cmd window will help.

I don't use System restore

WinDirStat just crashes when i run then scan

That is very strange. It never crashed on me and I also have never heard of anybody else having that problem. Maybe you have a more serious problem in your system. Where can we start to look? For starters, have a peek at the event viewer.
PS: I also recommend to use imaging. Here is one option.

My system has a lot of irritating problems, but i got it to work in the end, the program just freeze up when scanning. I posted my results in this thread if u look back i upload a image to imageshack

 

[tuuoploki]

Have you run disc cleanup yet?

yea only 30MB cleaned

 

[Solarstarshines]

see this link it will tell you how to rid shadow storage hidden storage that eats up the hard drive Is Vista Eating Up Your Hard Drive Space? | Live Slick follow the instructions to the letter and it should give you 10 gigs also look for temps files we had the same issue with another user a few days before I dont know how to post the previous thread with this problem but if you view all threads by me in the last 2 days

you will see the post and how to solve it there are more solutions on that thread then just this one

post will be title missing hard drive space in c drive

 

[tuuoploki]

I have no idea how this happened. But another 3GB from my C drive has disappeared. I haven't done anything on that drive so i have no idea why or how it was freed up

I done a scan using that program and i can see that system files has dropped from 6.1GB to 2.8GB. once again i have no idea why

 

[tuuoploki]

see this link it will tell you how to rid shadow storage hidden storage that eats up the hard drive Is Vista Eating Up Your Hard Drive Space? | Live Slick follow the instructions to the letter and it should give you 10 gigs also look for temps files we had the same issue with another user a few days before I dont know how to post the previous thread with this problem but if you view all threads by me in the last 2 days

you will see the post and how to solve it there are more solutions on that thread then just this one

post will be title missing hard drive space in c drive

As stated before i do not use system restore

 

[whs]

I have no idea how this happened. But another 3GB from my C drive has disappeared. I haven't done anything on that drive so i have no idea why or how it was freed up

I done a scan using that program and i can see that system files has dropped from 6.1GB to 2.8GB. once again i have no idea why

That could have been temporary files that were thrown out by a schedulted defrag. If you run the command schtasks in an elevated cmd, you can check when your defrag is scheduled. You can also check it when you type defrag into the start/search and hit Enter.
I again suggest you run WinDirStat from time to time. That gives you the best track record of what is going on with the disk/partition.

 

[tuuoploki]

I have no idea how this happened. But another 3GB from my C drive has disappeared. I haven't done anything on that drive so i have no idea why or how it was freed up

I done a scan using that program and i can see that system files has dropped from 6.1GB to 2.8GB. once again i have no idea why

That could have been temporary files that were thrown out by a schedulted defrag. If you run the command schtasks in an elevated cmd, you can check when your defrag is scheduled. You can also check it when you type defrag into the start/search and hit Enter.
I again suggest you run WinDirStat from time to time. That gives you the best track record of what is going on with the disk/partition.

Did you see the picture i posted?

 

[whs]

Yes, I saw the picture. It looks pretty normal (standard) to me. Anything you like me to look at in particular?