Losing massive amount of GBs

[Daniel Kaplan]

With little saving, it seems a good 20GBs of my HD have disappeared.

Are there any tools that will show me the biggest files off of my HD?
Haven't been able to track it down.

Thanks.

 

[JS]

Have you used the Windows 'Disk Cleanup' utility.

JS

"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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> With little saving, it seems a good 20GBs of my HD have disappeared.
>
> Are there any tools that will show me the biggest files off of my HD?
> Haven't been able to track it down.
>
> Thanks.
>

 

[Daniel Kaplan]

From: "JS" <@>
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:17 PM
Subject: Re: Losing massive amount of GBs


> Have you used the Windows 'Disk Cleanup' utility.
>

I did, and got back some 7GB. But I am telling you, I lost a good 20GBs,
without any serious installs.

Surely there must be a way to find all the BIGGEST files on my entire HD?

 

[Zilbandy]

On Wed, 18 Jul 2007 21:58:40 -0400, "Daniel Kaplan"
<NoSPam@NoSpam.com> wrote:

>Surely there must be a way to find all the BIGGEST files on my entire HD?

There are several programs out there. One that I have used on occasion
is AMUST Disk Cleaner, although the version I have doesn't do any
cleaning, it does give you the ability to see all your files and
folders sorted by size. Here's a URL for you:
http://www.amustsoft.com/disk-cleaner/

--
Zilbandy

 

[JS]

TreeSize v2.0
http://www.fileflash.com/program/3623/

TreeInfo
http://gammon.com.au/utilities/treeinfo.htm

JS

"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
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> From: "JS" <@>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Losing massive amount of GBs
>
>
>> Have you used the Windows 'Disk Cleanup' utility.
>>
>
> I did, and got back some 7GB. But I am telling you, I lost a good 20GBs,
> without any serious installs.
>
> Surely there must be a way to find all the BIGGEST files on my entire HD?
>

 

[z1z1z1]

"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.com> wrote in
news:1184810317.534445@nntp.acecape.com:

> From: "JS" <@>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Losing massive amount of GBs
>
>
>> Have you used the Windows 'Disk Cleanup' utility.
>>
>
> I did, and got back some 7GB. But I am telling you, I lost a good
> 20GBs, without any serious installs.
>
> Surely there must be a way to find all the BIGGEST files on my entire
> HD?
>
>

Try sequoiaview or windirstat to get a graphical picture of your drive
space - you'll see right away which are the BIGGEST files, including the
hidden ones.

 

[Plato]

Daniel Kaplan wrote:
>
> Are there any tools that will show me the biggest files off of my HD?
> Haven't been able to track it down.

http://www.bootdisk.com/utility.htm
GENERAL FILE UTILITIES
Show Folder Sizes

Winderstat is the most fun BTW...

 

[Mike]

My fav is JDisk Report. It's free and will analyze a partition from many
differnet views. You can also save the report so you can compare when
things change drastically and you're not sure what.

"z1z1z1" <bogus@email.address> wrote in message
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> "Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.com> wrote in
> news:1184810317.534445@nntp.acecape.com:
>
>> From: "JS" <@>
>> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
>> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:17 PM
>> Subject: Re: Losing massive amount of GBs
>>
>>
>>> Have you used the Windows 'Disk Cleanup' utility.
>>>
>>
>> I did, and got back some 7GB. But I am telling you, I lost a good
>> 20GBs, without any serious installs.
>>
>> Surely there must be a way to find all the BIGGEST files on my entire
>> HD?
>>
>>
>
> Try sequoiaview or windirstat to get a graphical picture of your drive
> space - you'll see right away which are the BIGGEST files, including the
> hidden ones.

 

[M.I.5¾]

"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
news:1184810317.534445@nntp.acecape.com...
> From: "JS" <@>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Losing massive amount of GBs
>
>
>> Have you used the Windows 'Disk Cleanup' utility.
>>
>
> I did, and got back some 7GB. But I am telling you, I lost a good 20GBs,
> without any serious installs.
>
> Surely there must be a way to find all the BIGGEST files on my entire HD?

A sizeable amount of your hard disk gets consumed because Windows squirrels
away large amounts of data on what you use windows for, into hidden folders
that are not accesible to the user - and they *never* get erased.

See:

http://www.****microsoft.com/content/ms-hidden-files.shtml

and

http://sillydog.org/mshidden.php

and

http://www.totse.com/en/technology/computer_technology/163148.html

in fact just google for 'really hidden files'.

for more information and how to get at them.

 

[JS]

For some reason this post did not show up so I'm sending it again...
TreeSize v2.0
http://www.fileflash.com/program/3623/

TreeInfo
http://gammon.com.au/utilities/treeinfo.htm

JS

"Daniel Kaplan" <NoSPam@NoSpam.com> wrote in message
news:1184810317.534445@nntp.acecape.com...
> From: "JS" <@>
> Newsgroups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.general
> Sent: Wednesday, July 18, 2007 7:17 PM
> Subject: Re: Losing massive amount of GBs
>
>
>> Have you used the Windows 'Disk Cleanup' utility.
>>
>
> I did, and got back some 7GB. But I am telling you, I lost a good 20GBs,
> without any serious installs.
>
> Surely there must be a way to find all the BIGGEST files on my entire HD?
>