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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Mr. Vega on December 05, 2014, 02:03:20 pm

Title: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Mr. Vega on December 05, 2014, 02:03:20 pm

Can someone please explain to me how when I click on my hard drive's properties it says I have 1.16TB used space but when I select every folder (including hidden) in C:/ and click properties it says I have 742GB used? That's a pretty ****ing big discrepancy. And I don't have another partition on there.

Title: Re: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Hellzed on December 05, 2014, 02:06:11 pm

[Disregard this, i misread.]


Which version of Windows is this ?

Title: Re: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Mr. Vega on December 05, 2014, 02:08:22 pm

7.

Title: Re: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Hellzed on December 05, 2014, 02:15:07 pm

I don't have a Windows 7 pc at home, but it may be used by built-in "system restore".
http://www.howtogeek.com/howto/5482/make-system-restore-use-less-space-in-windows-7/

Title: Re: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Shivan Hunter on December 05, 2014, 02:27:45 pm

I've found that WinDirStat (https://windirstat.info/) can be helpful here too.

Title: Re: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Mr. Vega on December 05, 2014, 02:47:20 pm

WinDirStat gives the same ~765GB total. Is Windows completely miscounting when asked to look at the disk itself?

Title: Re: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Ghostavo on December 05, 2014, 03:05:23 pm

Could you have an abnormally large paging and hibernation file in the system root?

Title: Re: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Herra Tohtori on December 05, 2014, 03:06:15 pm

Recycle bin, hidden system directories, large pagefile on system partition, shadow copy?

Title: Re: Hard Disk Space
Post by: Mr. Vega on December 05, 2014, 03:08:09 pm

Ugh. I'm a moron. I thought sys restore was only using 121 mb, but I didn't realize I was looking at the wrong directory instead of C:/. I have sys restore set to use up to 50% of C:/. Right now it alone takes up 400GB. Thank you for indulging a moron.

Edit- and there it is. Cut it down to 15%. Problem solved.