I'm trying to figure out a computer that's running Windows XP with a 75 GB hard drive. I wanted to free up space so I moved all large files (music, pics, video) to an external hard drive and deleted old files and old programs. When I check the properties of the drive, it says that I have used 48 GB. I still wanted to decrease the amount of space used, so I wanted to see which files were taking up space. I used jdiskreport and it is telling me that the drive is only using 15.5 GB. Why the discrepancy?

I have run chkdsk, DEFRAG, antivirus, antispyware, registry cleaner, and DISK cleanup. I don't know why the difference in space used.You might have a big chunk of it eaten up by system restore. That's not necessarily a BAD thing.Correct - it is probably system restore. If you disable system restore the space should immediately be available (note - all restore points will be deleted). You can also download treesize to see where on the disc space is being used
http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtmlI have already used disk cleanup to delete the last restore points. I ran a checkdisk repair again and it did repair some bad sectors. Now it's coming up as 46 GB used.

I have used jdiskreport to see what files are taking up what space. That's what first made me see that something wasn't coinciding.Quote from: Allybird on April 29, 2010, 08:03:38 AM

I have already used disk cleanup to delete the last restore points.

Disk cleanup doesn't delete restore points.

I believe it can be used to delete all but the most recent restore point BC.

Well, not on windows 7. I just checked


Oh wait a second... never mind, I didn't see the "more options tab" curses.

(Can you tell I haven't seriously looked at that program since around windows 98? )