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  • January 31, 2013 at 9:22 am #2170746

    regarding the hard disk space

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    by teachrana · about 11 years, 2 months ago

    hi, i have 250 gb hdd. it’s participated on ”c”& ”d” by win 7. in the ”d’ drive i have kept a file of 18 gb valued file. rest is blank means there is more than 80 gb space is available now. but it’s showing full on the disk. what may problem regarding the same. please reply me .

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    • January 31, 2013 at 9:22 am #2426341

      Clarifications

      by teachrana · about 11 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to regarding the hard disk space

      Clarifications

    • February 1, 2013 at 5:16 am #2426315

      try treesize free or spacemonger to see where it is going.

      by adrian watts · about 11 years, 2 months ago

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      try treesize free or spacemonger to see where it is going.

    • February 1, 2013 at 8:41 am #2426307

      Windows 7 HDD Partitions…

      by sven2157 · about 11 years, 2 months ago

      In reply to regarding the hard disk space

      When Windows 7 installs on your HDD, it creates 2 partitions, as you have noticed. One partition is the [b]System Reserved[/b] partition, and it is approximately 100MB( MegaBytes ) in size. The second partition it creates is your Useful Hard Drive Disk( [b]HDD[/b] ) Space; in other words the space you can use.

      I am not sure what you mean by:
      [quote]in the ”d’ drive i have kept a file of 18 gb valued file. rest is blank means there is more than 80 gb space is available now.[/quote]
      I am guessing that you mean – You have an 18GB( GigaByte ) file in your usable Hard Drive section? Which leaves you with 231.9GB of free space.

      However you are seeing that as being full? Perhaps you have TEMP files that need to be deleted? OR System Restore Points gone crazy. These files will not show in your Windows Explorer, but will be calculated in your total HDD usage.

      You could download CCleaner( FREE ), and use it to “clean” your HDD. http://www.piriform.com/ccleaner

      [b]***NOTE[/b]: You should [b][u]NEVER[/u][/b] store anything in the System Reserve, as it is used for… Well, the System. 😉

    • May 21, 2013 at 1:12 am #2428643

      System Volume Information is “Bloated”

      by anoushka52 · about 10 years, 11 months ago

      In reply to regarding the hard disk space

      I installed TreeSize and discovered :
      folder System Volume Information is “Bloated” with multiple entries of same files
      (ie. .dll, .exe.cfg,.rbf,.msi,.OLD,…. etc.)in the same folder but different code numbers.
      Properties view shows identical info for each type (all .exe with same size are associated with one program.)
      This occurred after a noticably long System Restore. I noticed the sudden decrease of free space
      There are 18GB.mysteriously consumed.
      Is it possible that Sys Restore duplicated these files repeatedly ?
      Can I delete these duplicates (all but one in each group)?
      i Can’t delete all Restore folders except for last one – this is the one that’s bloated.
      Many Thanks for any help.

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