Looking for a program...

[crazygal]

My roommate has Win XP installed on a 2.5 gig partition (C: ) and saves the rest of his data on a 72+ gig partition (F: ). Recently he's been getting low disk space alerts about drive C. There's only 100 megs free (2.4 gigs being used) yet when he looks in drive C, he can only find 1.1 gigs. (He opens C:, selects the 3 folders and checks their total size).

Does XP have a bug when it comes to storing data or something? The trash bin is empty and hidden/system files are displayed.

Isn't there a program that displays where everything is on your computer and how much room it takes up? It's pretty frustrating so any help would be great!

Thanks!

 

[YaKuZa]

If system restore monitoring is on, that could be your problem.

 

[EeyoreX]

Can you view hidden files in Explrer/My Computer? If not these probably would not be reported. A better way would be to right click on the C: drive icon in My Computer and click properties. Hidden files can eat up a lot of space. Another thing to consider is the page/swap file could be eating up a fair abount of the "unused" space.

I did a quick Google search and came up with this. It shows a graph of folder usage (among other things) that may be what you are looking for.

\Dan

 

[Cyph3r]

Check the pagefile as well, see if it is sitting on C: If so, move it to F: and that should probably take care of it once you try the other suggestions in this post.

Regards

 

[TerryP]

You can try FOSI++, it's free and works for me.

FOSI++

 

[crazygal]

I guess it was the page file stuff, thanks for the help!