Guest nightstar@gmail.com Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 I received one of our employees laptops today. - System is connected to a domain - System Restore shut off in domain policy Pre Cleaning - Laptop C partition is 85 Gig - Free space is 4 Gig - Logged on as admin - Hidden files shown - Protected files shown - All temporary files deleted - IE Cache Deleted - Any other installers or uneeded files deleted After Cleaning - C drive properties states 85 Gig total 7 gig free - Treesize states 39 Gig of files on drive - Highlight all files in explorer and get properties, also states 39 gig of files on drive - Ran checkdisk (no luck) Ok so where did the other 40+ gig go? All Junk has been removed by hand and via the system clean up utility. Any other software to use to check what may be happening?
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 Re: Missing Disk Space <nightstar@gmail.com> wrote in message news:862c043f-349c-4223-8432-b8cd961b1ece@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >I received one of our employees laptops today. > > - System is connected to a domain > - System Restore shut off in domain policy > > Pre Cleaning > - Laptop C partition is 85 Gig > - Free space is 4 Gig > > - Logged on as admin > - Hidden files shown > - Protected files shown > > - All temporary files deleted > - IE Cache Deleted > - Any other installers or uneeded files deleted > > After Cleaning > - C drive properties states 85 Gig total 7 gig free > - Treesize states 39 Gig of files on drive > - Highlight all files in explorer and get properties, also states 39 > gig of files on drive > > - Ran checkdisk (no luck) > > Ok so where did the other 40+ gig go? All Junk has been removed by > hand and via the system clean up utility. > Any other software to use to check what may be happening? Products such as Symantec's GoBack are known to eat up large amounts of disk space. Try one of these tools: DriveUse: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/
Guest John McGaw Posted July 18, 2008 Posted July 18, 2008 Re: Missing Disk Space Pegasus (MVP) wrote: > <nightstar@gmail.com> wrote in message > news:862c043f-349c-4223-8432-b8cd961b1ece@t12g2000prg.googlegroups.com... >> I received one of our employees laptops today. >> >> - System is connected to a domain >> - System Restore shut off in domain policy >> >> Pre Cleaning >> - Laptop C partition is 85 Gig >> - Free space is 4 Gig >> >> - Logged on as admin >> - Hidden files shown >> - Protected files shown >> >> - All temporary files deleted >> - IE Cache Deleted >> - Any other installers or uneeded files deleted >> >> After Cleaning >> - C drive properties states 85 Gig total 7 gig free >> - Treesize states 39 Gig of files on drive >> - Highlight all files in explorer and get properties, also states 39 >> gig of files on drive >> >> - Ran checkdisk (no luck) >> >> Ok so where did the other 40+ gig go? All Junk has been removed by >> hand and via the system clean up utility. >> Any other software to use to check what may be happening? > > Products such as Symantec's GoBack are known to eat up large amounts > of disk space. Try one of these tools: > DriveUse: > http://members.ozemail.com.au/~nulifetv/freezip/freeware/index.html > Bullet Proof Folder sizes: http://www.foldersizes.com/ > > I find that SequoiaView is a fine tool for determining where storage is being used up: http://w3.win.tue.nl/nl/onderzoek/onderzoek_informatica/visualization/sequoiaview/ Install, open up full screen, tell it to show free space, aim it a C:, and let it scan. There are other programs with do similar things but the display in this particular program just seems to make more sense than the others I've seen. John McGaw http://johnmcgaw.com
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