Finding disk space...

skamanfrank · June 2007

Is there a way I can look at some sort of pie chart type thing showing me where all my hardrive space is being used? I'm running really rather low

and that's WITH an external hard drive housing all things a/v

Also, what does a defrag actually DO? AFAIK, it just moves all the useless, unuseable space together into one block, or something like that.......!! Will it help the situation?

EDIT:
Hardrive is (a measly) 35 or 40GB
About 32GB used, 2GB free
Program Files is only 3.5GB

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JinjaNinja · June 2007

check the sizes of all your music/vid/games/program files? Or files that usually take up a lot of space.

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skamanfrank · June 2007

Music + Vid are all on hardrive, and I don't have THAT many games/programs, was just wondering if there was some way of seeing it all graphically so I know straight where to head. How big are temp folders normally?

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JinjaNinja · June 2007

sorry, that was my limit of help on this one! Might be a program/download somewhere that will do that for you.

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DirtJumper3200 · June 2007

I could do with the same sort of program AFAIK it doesnt exist.

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me_groovy · June 2007

norton systemworks USED to come with a util for this. I would say delete the folders
c:\temp
c:\windows\temp
temporary internet files
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check your my docs/my music and my photos folder size

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euan_333 · June 2007

Defrag rearranges the parts of files in order so the harddrive doesn't have to move the head as much to read the file, thus improving the life of the hardware.

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skamanfrank · June 2007

Oops, My Docs would appear to be bigger than expected.... 12GB, and again, that's without any music in there!! I think most of it is in fact in My Recieved Files tbh
EDIT: nope, it's not really al that obvious where the space is being taken up in there. This is ooooooh!. I need a bigger hard drive!

Will delete the temps as well, cheers Mian

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Jonny · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by skamanfrank

I need a bigger hard drive!
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Get one then [;)]

http://www.diskview.com/

There's another one that I think looks better but for the life of me I can't remember what it's called.

skamanfrank · June 2007

Awesome cheers man

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Jonny · June 2007

http://www.sixty-five.cc/sm/

Found it, it's the one I used a while back and it's really good. I don't know how good compared to the one above as I haven't used that one. But still I'd give it a go! Might have some crap lurking somewhere...

Oh, and if you haven't, installer CCleaner. Run that, it removed a heck of a lot from mine, but space isn't really an issue now I've got a 750gb external HDD...

edhead · June 2007

Start > Programs > Accessories > System Tools > Disk Clean up

Through that you can delete any unnecessary files, such as the tempory ones... you can also delete the system restore points apart from the most recent, which should free up a few GB.. assuming your pc is running ok and has no problems that might need to use the aforementioned restore points.

If you want to delete restore points go into the 'More Options' tab and select 'Clean up' under the system restore bit.

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skamanfrank · June 2007

Looks like that's going to save me about 9GB cheers mate

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edhead · June 2007

Well I say 9GB because thats how much it freed up on mine.. it will be different for you, though if have never done it before, then it should free quite a fair bit.

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skamanfrank · June 2007

Nah, i mean that's how much it said could be deleted for me as well!

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edhead · June 2007

Oh right, awesome no problem mate.

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Jamie@AC · June 2007

I might check that out. Laptop HDs FTUL!

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rich_teague · June 2007

Spacemonger.

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xc-andy · June 2007

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rubber side up · June 2007

Just a thought, have you emptied your recycle bin recently??? would be the first place to check.

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Jonny · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by XC-Andy

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Packard Bell = fail

Get a Seagate or Western Digital.

skamanfrank · June 2007

I've got a Western Digital "My Book" It's great. Only downside is that my laptop is only USB1 which means transfers aren't as quick as they could be

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mr pie man 2 · June 2007

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by Jonny

<blockquote id="quote">quote:<hr height="1" noshade id="quote">Originally posted by XC-Andy

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PACKARD-BELL-STOR ... dZViewItem
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Packard Bell = fail

Get a Seagate or Western Digital.
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What you think the HDD in there would actually be Packard Bell?

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