i cant find what is taking up 90 gigs of space on my harddrive - i think its a norton ghost image file - Still need HELP

[alee25]

i use to have no problems with this, but recently when i installed norton ghost 9, and i did a backup on my C drive - it worked successfully. I then transfered that image file to my backup drive. I then tried to rewrite over that file to do another image, however it did not complete because it said i ran out of disk space. However the probelm is that when i went to go check, i cannot find the place where i am losing 90 gigs of data. I tried turning on hidden files, and everything but it just donest add up. All the files in that harddrive only amount to about 26 gigs and its a 120 gig harddrive, and it says that i only have 15 megs of storage left. Does anyone know what the problems is

 

[warcrow]

why not just

- do a search for "*.*"
- Sort by file size
- OMFG PROFIT!

 

[Cheetah8799]

You can also do a file search and set it to only find files by size greater than X mb, so look for things bigger than say 50mb and you might find something.

 

[powerMarkymark]

I had that same problem, I used trial copy of Treesize Pro to find out that it was the Restore files taking up the HDDD space,

Try it out.

Marc

 

[alee25]

the problem is that i cant see the file, so i cant search for it or sort. Its like the file is nonexistant

 

[alee25]

i tried treesize pro and it still does not show the files etiehr. on my backup drive it shows that i have 30 gigs of harddrive space used out of 120, but when i check the harddrive in propertieis it shows that i only have 15 megs left

 

[HardcoreRobot]

norton recycle bin or norton protected files always ate up a ton of space before i disabled that

if you have norton on your comp i would empty those protected recycle bins then disable it

 

[whistleclient]

this is the best program: spacemonger

it shows a visual picture of the folders by size. click on a folder and it'll show the subfolders arranged by size. best thing for finding out what's the biggest


link

 

[JohnAn2112]

Right click on your recycle bin and select Empty Norton Protected Files if you have that enabled.