Invisible file taking up spaces.

[zZDoremonZz]

I've recently uninstalled a game which is 9Gb in size to get more space to install another game which is 7,5Gb in size. The thing is, before the uninstallation, my D:\ drive still has about 5gb of free spaces left. But after I uninstall the previous game and install the latter, I got a message about Low Disk Spaces in the notification bar. I checked D: afterward just to find that it only has about 40mb left. Anyone?
I've check all of the file in that drive and it shows that it only uses about 115,756,993,011 bytes while checking through the properties of the drive shows that 119,151,755,264 bytes is being used

 

[jazmeister]

Hi there, grab something like diskdetective or jdiskreport and run it on your drive to see what's taking up space

 

[Kiddterralv]

Hi, you've uninstalled the game but the files are still on your computer. Do as Jazmeister said or try Treesize, it's simple to use. Just scan and it'll show you every file on your pc/laptop and you can delete them.

 

[zZDoremonZz]

Hi there, grab something like diskdetective or jdiskreport and run it on your drive to see what's taking up space

Hi, you've uninstalled the game but the files are still on your computer. Do as Jazmeister said or try Treesize, it's simple to use. Just scan and it'll show you every file on your pc/laptop and you can delete them.

Hey guys, thanks for the fast reply. I've tried to use something called Windirstat after some searching but the result i've got is still the same. I can't find invisible file taking spaces anywhere in that particular drive. And the uninstaller for the game was bugged so I had to forced-delete it before installing the newer game. Dunno what's wrong anymore...

 

[hang-the-9]

Did you empty the Recycle Bin if you deleted files manually? Also check for system restore if it saves files to the D drive

 

[zZDoremonZz]

I shift-del the folder so I'm pretty sure it was not in the Recycle bin, plus my recycle bin was set to 1gb maximum. System restore? Through the use of the program i mentioned above, I can find it but nothing was in there. Is there anyway to know how many data is in that directory?

 

[hang-the-9]

I shift-del the folder so I'm pretty sure it was not in the Recycle bin, plus my recycle bin was set to 1gb maximum. System restore? Through the use of the program i mentioned above, I can find it but nothing was in there. Is there anyway to know how many data is in that directory?

This will show you how to check the system restore files and delete some/all if you like http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/336-system-protection-restore-points-delete.html

 

[Ijack]

Be aware that, because of minimum cluster sizes, a file will always occupy more disk space than its size would indicate. A 10 byte file would occupy 8KB of disk space (this is an example - it all depends upon your cluster size), so the comparison is not meanigful. The figures sound about right without having to introduce "invisible" files.

 

[zZDoremonZz]

@hang-the-9: I've checked the above method and it shows that my system protection is turned on on C:\ only, not on other drives.
@Ijack: I've checked through the new installation's folder and there's not a lot of little file like that taking up space, if that's what you meant.

 

[Ijack]

It's not just small files. Every file on a disk wastes about 2KB on average. Multiply that by the number of files on the disk and it adds up to what you are seeing. You can't just add up the file sizes to determine how much disk space is used.