Fix-It Forums - Hard drive mysteriously filled?

10-08-2004, 04:40 AM	#1
aron Level 1 Support Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 16	My G: partition is 166 gigs. Only ~30gb should be used on it, however windows (xp sp2) is reporting that it is more than half-filled. Checking the properties of all the files/folders on it also shows that there should be more like 30gb on the drive. I took a screenshot here so you can see what I mean: http://shovelbeating.org/~nirvana/screen.png What on earth is the deal? I don't have any viruses and this is a fairly fresh install... But this big drive should really be reporting an entirely different amount of used/free space. Any help? Thanks in advance!

10-09-2004, 12:01 AM	#2
muisejt Level 2 Support Join Date: May 2004 Location: Nova Scotia Posts: 459	System Restore and Recycling Bin can eat up space. also see that a Mac connect to that drive so there could be stuff there too.

10-09-2004, 12:21 AM	#3
MrDigital Level 2 Support Join Date: May 2004 Location: Los Angeles, baby! Posts: 448	It already appears that you have hidden files/folders checked on, but can you verify for me that you do? Pretty weird man. It's hard to lose 60GB. -MrD

10-09-2004, 06:58 AM	#4
aron Level 1 Support Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 16	i do have them shown already, yea. i even tried the old 'defrag-might-fix-it' idea, too. no go! i have absolutely ZERO clue what to do.

10-09-2004, 10:43 AM	#5
proxops-pete Senior Level Support Join Date: May 2004 Location: Houston, TX Posts: 1,378	What muisejt was suggesting you try is to disable System Restore (which would free up some space).

10-15-2004, 05:22 PM	#6
GLScooby Water-Cooled Member Join Date: May 2004 Location: Comin' right at ya! Posts: 257	Couple of questions: 1. What is your browser cache size? manual settings? Clear it and see if that helps. 2. Are you using manual virtual memory settings? Check 'em in the control panel>> system>> advanced>> Performance (settings)>> advanced

10-15-2004, 09:15 PM

aron

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Quote:

Originally Posted by GLScooby

Couple of questions:

1. What is your browser cache size? manual settings? Clear it and see if that helps.

2. Are you using manual virtual memory settings? Check 'em in the control panel>> system>> advanced>> Performance (settings)>> advanced

my browser's (firefox) cache size is set to "50000", which i'm assuming is in k, so 50 megs i guess.

i'm letting windows use the default virtual memory size, which is 1152MB for all drives.

11-06-2004, 09:56 PM	#8
aron Level 1 Support Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 16	update: i became fed up with this, so i backed up everything on the partition and deleted the partition. upon rebooting windows, it reported that the drive was only 128GB, which made me realize this is probably related to the 137 (128 binary) GB limit. i AM running windows XP SP2, and have a recent version of the bios for my system (asus a7v motherboard)... what should i do to get windows to recognize this disk's full size?

11-06-2004, 10:14 PM

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Originally Posted by aron

update:
i became fed up with this, so i backed up everything on the partition and deleted the partition. upon rebooting windows, it reported that the drive was only 128GB, which made me realize this is probably related to the 137 (128 binary) GB limit. i AM running windows XP SP2, and have a recent version of the bios for my system (asus a7v motherboard)... what should i do to get windows to recognize this disk's full size?

having sp2, should be enough? I thought updating to at least sp1 fixed that old problem of the os not seeing beyond 120

11-06-2004, 11:51 PM	#10
aron Level 1 Support Join Date: Aug 2004 Posts: 16	apparently it's not enough for my hardware configuration. i don't get this at all. with windows' choice of ultra100 drivers, it simply doesn't see the drive as being above 128GB, EVEN THOUGH SP2 is installed. BUT, with promise's latest driver (2.0.0.39 from promise's website), it does see the drive as the full 186GB -- however THIS driver screws up audio playback pretty dreadfully. this is hopeless.

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