My 120 gig hard drive shows that it is almost full. I know that almost 50 gig of it is video clips being edited from my camcorder. I really don't think I have FILLED this thing up.

There are 3 users on the PC, myself as admin, my wife and son. Some of the video directory is "shared". After browsing the C drive last night looking for where all the space went to, I concluded that the shared directories are counted once for each user giving a false disk usage. So when I select "properties" on the C drive to get usage and the pie chart it may be wrong.

Am I right or wrong here?

Thanks,Hi, I don't know why the disc usage is being wrongly reported but maybe you could try a freeware disc inventory program to SEE where the space is being used. I'm just looking for a link to some downloads.

Derek.Hi, just had a thought; have you run Scandisc? Even if there are no errors the report should say how much free space there is.
(Back soon with some links)

Derek.Well, is there anything like pictures, games, etc. STORED on your computer? (Besides motion pictures) ALSO, what operating system are you using?

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Derek.Thanks guy's, XP pro, first I am going to defrag then scan disk and then some of the utilities you have provided thanks again I'll keep you posted.burn data to disk........or upload it to a website.......120 gig is really 111.76 gig so there's 8 gig "gone".

Try reducing System Restore points to last one only and lower the space used by system restore.

If you have drive partitions turn system restore off on all but the C: drive.

Take a look at c:\windows for hidden $NTUninstaller$ files and delete them. Then delete their entries in Add-Remove programs.

Delete the datacoll files and the prefetch files (they will both re-build) and then run CCleaner over your system to clear out all the junk files.