One of the biggest disk-eaters in XP, at least, is system restore. It
defaults to a fixed PERCENT of your space, so the bigger the drive, the more
it will eventually eat after it has had time to create a zillion restore
points.
I always reduce the percent it can use on every new PC. 4% works ok for us
on an 80 gb drive, or 1 or 2% on a 250 gb drive. It won't accept fractions,
so on a terabyte drive you are still stuck with 1% even though less would
probably be adequate.
(to check, go to control-panel | system | system restore)
----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Heasman" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, July 06, 2009 16:09
Subject: [Spam] Re: [HP3000-L] Where has my disc space gone?
So I downloaded and ran this little program, hoping to find where 58.5 Gb
had gone on one of my drives, but
Sadly it don't help. I click on the ghost image and it tells me I have 58.5
gig of "Unknown Space".
Oh well, I only paid £70 for a new terabyte drive a couple of months ago.
-----Original Message-----
From: HP-3000 Systems Discussion [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf
Of Roy Brown
Sent: 03 July 2009 16:26
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: [HP3000-L] Where has my disc space gone?
But where your space has gone will depend on which OS you are running;
Vista can easily eat 35GB all on its own.
To see where it's gone exactly, though, I recommend SpaceSniffer:-
http://www.uderzo.it/main_products/space_sniffer/index.html
This elegant free program builds a treemap of your disc usage
dynamically.
Treemapping is explained at:-
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treemapping
but it's good just to download SpaceSniffer, point it at your hard disc,
and run it to see treemapping in action; then you get the idea pretty
quickly.
Any big block that you want to drill down into, just double-click to
zoom and up it comes.
This is a GREAT program!
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