The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    HDD space

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by killaz05, Oct 22, 2009.

  1. killaz05

    killaz05 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    373
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    31
    ok this sounds kind of stupid but I am having trouble finding where all of my HDD space went. My HDD says I have 188 out of 451GB. I can account for most of it and I calculate I should have 100GB more. My program files(x86) properties is 63.1GB, program files= 9.32GB, Documents = 23.5, music = 9.53. photos and vids are under a gig. Autodesk = 26.4GB. Windows = 23.2GB . I can't find where the rest went. Any help would be appreciated. Oh and I defraged yesturday and no help.

    Thanks
     
    killaz05, Oct 22, 2009
    #1
  2. pchan

    pchan Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    79
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    pchan, Oct 22, 2009
    #2
  3. chewyeong90

    chewyeong90 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    77
    Messages:
    528
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    30
    Chunks of it go to System Restore, you would have to Show All Hidden Files/Folders and also Unhide protected operating system files to see where it all goes to.
     
    chewyeong90, Oct 22, 2009
    #3
  4. killaz05

    killaz05 Notebook Evangelist

    Reputations:
    12
    Messages:
    373
    Likes Received:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    31
    Ok, I had it show me all folders including hidden and I can account for 215GB even when clicking the C:/ drive and then highlighting everything in there and clicking properties to see how much space is being used. It does not add up. Where would the system be storing all the restore files? Could it be a virus?
     
    killaz05, Oct 23, 2009
    #4
  5. Brendanmurphy

    Brendanmurphy Your Worst Nightmare

    Reputations:
    199
    Messages:
    1,007
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Brendanmurphy, Oct 23, 2009
    #5
  6. pchan

    pchan Notebook Geek

    Reputations:
    1
    Messages:
    79
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    see this link to find more info about system restore files.

    http://blogs.technet.com/filecab/ar...used-for-restore-points-in-windows-vista.aspx
     
    pchan, Oct 23, 2009
    #6