Where is all my space gone?

DAVIDDOLAN

Hi, I have a relatively new laptop with a 160GB HD and have 45gb of music on it. I am down to only 8GB of free space left on my disk and I don't know what is taking up all of my other remaining space. I have no movies or any other big files on my laptop so not sure how I can free up space. I have tried a 'disk clean up' but this has not free'd up much space. Anyone know what might be taking up so much room, and how I might get rid of stuff I do not need.

Thanks

cruizer101

There is a little app you can download called windirstat which shows you graphically what is using up the space on your hardisk, i think its a handy little one. The other option is just in explorer check the sizes of different folders, see what biggest and check in that, bit more tedious but you should be able to narrow it down

coylemj

Install and run CCleaner, it's currently #17 on the 'Most Popular' on www.download.com (200,000 downloads last week) and it's free.

practice

Have you checked how many system restore points you have.
You could also reduce the amount of space required by system restore (its usually set at about 12%)

JonathanAnon

practice wrote: »

Have you checked how many system restore points you have.

Yeah I'd say that would be the first place to start... You can also download free tools like TreeSize which will help you to identify where the big files are...

Or you could run a simple file search for files greater than 20,000KBs ..

Naikon

CCleaner should do the trick.

ElectricGirl

Also make sure it doesn't have two partitions setup!

Overheal

Im in agreement with Windirstat and CCleaner. Mainly Windirstat.

Windirstat

CCleaner