May 9th, 2002, 10:42 AM
|
#1 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Austin Tx.
Posts: 604
|  Hard Drive Space Disappearing
I was wonderin’ if someone/anyone might know why I’m losein’ hard drive space. On 05/07/02, my free space on my hard drive was 66.80, on 05/08/02, free spaced dropped to 66.62. I have not installed any new programs, or downloaded any, I’ve Defragged, and Disk clean up. But no free space came back. If anyone has any idea why this is occurring, drop a line. Thanks
UpInYa
| 
|  | |
May 9th, 2002, 10:55 AM
|
#2 (permalink)
| | Let's go, Hokies!
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: South Jersey
Posts: 7,562
|
Doesn't look like much to me. Do you clear out temp internet files? Just using programs may rearrange some files causing them to take up more clusters.
| |
| | |
May 9th, 2002, 11:13 AM
|
#3 (permalink)
| | |
This is very much normal - windows uses dynamic sway file/temp files/temp internet files....
Not if it dropped to 45GB overnite, then you have a problem.
| |
| | |
May 9th, 2002, 12:08 PM
|
#4 (permalink)
| | Ultimate Member
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Nashville, TN
Posts: 1,879
|
Yep, not a problem. Could be anything, swap file size, temp files, new web apps installed automatically, ect.
BTW, do you have 66 meg, or 66 gig? Not sure by what you posted. I'm thinking you mean 66 meg or otherwise you would not be concerned.
If so it's time for a larger hd.  | |
| | |
May 9th, 2002, 12:15 PM
|
#5 (permalink)
| | A hero in training
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Norfolk, VA
Posts: 22,193
|
Do you have XP installed? if so do you have system restore on right now? | 
| | |
May 9th, 2002, 12:22 PM
|
#6 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Austin Tx.
Posts: 604
|
Yeah,, I'm using XP,, But not sure about system restore??? | |
| | |
May 9th, 2002, 12:56 PM
|
#7 (permalink)
| | Senior Member
Join Date: Apr 2002 Location: Austin Tx.
Posts: 604
|
Hey Thanks GroundZero3
It was the system restore, It was set to MAX, allmost 1gig, I set it down, and it put be back up to 68.54 gigs.
Now I have a another question. I got a new WesternDigital 7200rmp 80gig hard drive, I formated it, installed XP, and the drive reads total space as 74.52, I know XP take over a gig of space, so where did the other 5+ gigs go? Did I format it worng??? | |
| | |
May 9th, 2002, 01:02 PM
|
#8 (permalink)
| | Mean Moderator
Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: N of Music City, USA
Posts: 7,791
|
Hard drive manufacturers say that one Gigabyte is equal to 1,000 Megabytes, everybody knows that it's actually 1,024 Megabytes. So, when you get done carrying all the ones and that good stuff, you lose some Megabytes. The larger the drive, the more you lose.
It's not uncommon, you didn't do anything wrong. Except by putting XP on!  | |
| | |
Currently Active Users Viewing This Thread: 1 (0 members and 1 guests) | | | 
Posting Rules
| You may post new threads You may post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off | | | |   Most Active Discussions  | | | | | Recent Discussions  | | | | | 
|
hardware
prices 
