Reported disk usage greater than actual

[Guest AverageJoe]

I have partitioned my disk in two, a 10GB for WinXP and the rest for stuff in

general.

I've only had this rig running for two days and already the nice pie chart

says i have used 8.75 of the 10gb but lookin at the folders themselves i have

only used 5.8gb and I expect it to stay like this as no new software will be

going on this disk.

 

I found similar probs in a ancient post but that related to a problem with

MSOffice for Macs and I have also looked at the Sys restore but even if this

was taking its full quota of 1200Mb it still doesnt account for all the space

I'm missing.

 

Does anyone know why there is this discrepencys? I dont want to have to re

partition the system within the next week if it carries on filling up.

[Guest SBS Rocker]

Re: Reported disk usage greater than actual

 

Perhaps your pagefile sys?

 

"AverageJoe" <AverageJoe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message

news:70BA51B9-B272-4755-B5CB-74DF38A876EE@microsoft.com...

>I have partitioned my disk in two, a 10GB for WinXP and the rest for stuff

>in

> general.

> I've only had this rig running for two days and already the nice pie chart

> says i have used 8.75 of the 10gb but lookin at the folders themselves i

> have

> only used 5.8gb and I expect it to stay like this as no new software will

> be

> going on this disk.

>

> I found similar probs in a ancient post but that related to a problem

> with

> MSOffice for Macs and I have also looked at the Sys restore but even if

> this

> was taking its full quota of 1200Mb it still doesnt account for all the

> space

> I'm missing.

>

> Does anyone know why there is this discrepencys? I dont want to have to re

> partition the system within the next week if it carries on filling up.

[Guest AverageJoe]

Re: Reported disk usage greater than actual

 

Thanks, you were right.

I didnt think that xp would allocate that much space when the system was

idle but there you go it does, it just went ahead and claimed 2Gb.

Thanks again

 

"SBS Rocker" wrote:

> Perhaps your pagefile sys?