Harddrive Space constantly disappearing
Thursday, October 8, 2009 at 8:37 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Curtis Degler
(3 messages posted)
I am running Vista Home Premium SP2 on a Toshiba Satellite L305D laptop with a WD
"250" GB HD which according to device manager has 283475 MB capacity and is divided
into two partitions, E/ Data with 159374MB and C/ with the OS and the Program files
etc with 77600 MB.
My problem is that the windows "My computer" and other file managers show inconsistent
amounts of memory usage for the OS Partition which fluctuate widely and simply do
not add up. The C:partition shows a usage of space of 41 GB but only 8 GB is shown
as being free. 28GB is "missing". This is with folder options selected to show all
system files. Using a little program called fulldisk and also Advanced System Optimizer
I have tried to analyse the folder sizes of C: and their totals of space allocated
and space free do not add up to anywhere near 77.6GB and are off by 28 GB. The amount
of shown Freespace - currently 8GB - fluctuates widely. After a disk defrag it dropped
2GB!? Unallocated space is dangerously close to less than 10% of the total C: partition
size. I have tried to turn off indexing and also run chkdsk; Registry and HD cleaners
do little. Nothing seems to point where this missing HD memory is or what it is doing.
I simply can;t find it.
Any help is appreciated. Curt
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