help with my hard drive

half_life_man

for some reason my hard drive is used 3 quarters of its space and about a week ago it was just a quarter. i've checked loads of files to see if they took up much room, but they arn't that big. when i go into my folder it says its used up 65GB but when i enter the folder and select all the files and look at how much space it is taking up it only says 5GB. i have windows xp and i dunno if its a virus. can some1 please help me with this problem, i've already tried space monger but it didn't help.

Ruu_Old

hmm it maybe hidden files taking up extra memory. Try deleting the files in your c:/documents and settings/user/local settings/temp folder. Run scandisk at startup and it should correct any of the filesize problems.

Stephen

Are you sure the entire disk is partitioned? Have a look in computer management -> logical disk manager (assuming Windows 2000/XP here).

commited

view all hidden files etc.
Do as Ruu said.
Are you sure you're virus free?

Also try Disk cleanup.
Tune up utilities 2006 is a good program also

Ciaran500

Download Treesize (its in the free software sticky) and it will tell you where your space is gone.

half_life_man

thanks a million ciaran500 that done the job!