I Can not see my full HDD space...

[anuk07]

Hey there i am having little confusion with my hard disk,
I have a disk partition of 19.5 GB windows (XP SP3 )

which is filled with 10 GB data but it shows only 7 GB free space ,
I also de-fragmented the partition but still nothing happens,
is there any way i can use that 2GB approx. space.......

 

[tomatthe]

Try running windirstat on the drive. This will show you where all the space is allocated.

http://windirstat.info/

Most likely its a page file or restore point or something along those lines that is actually using the space, but win explorer doesn't directly report that.

 

[inzone]

If you were to lower the page file then you would know if that is what it is.

 

[anuk07]

hey tomatthe thnx WinDirStat show 1.9 GB of unknown space, but i can not find any means to clean this space.........are these unknown files can be deleted or not?

 

[tomatthe]

From a quick google, http://blog.windirstat.info/20061013/unknown-space/

Probably some other post out there as well if you looked a bit. If you are not concerned with having previous restore points, which personally I always turn off system restore as it seems a bit useless, you could delete the restore points which should free the space.

Info on deleting restore points.

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows7/Delete-a-restore-point