OS drive problem

[Tyrant222]

Hi,

I recently switched my operating system drive from a seagate 80giger to a maxtor 250giger.

Now in doing this, I split the maxtor up to give me a smaller 8gig OS drive.

So now I have windows XP on this drive. Ive also recently downloaded and installed SP2.

Lately I have been noticing my os drive is getting smaller and smaller.

From 8gigs, I am now down to 1gig. There are basically no programs installed on this drive, as there is

another partition for programs.

My problem is I dont know what is taking up so much space on this drive!

Things I have done include using the windows disk cleaner, deleteing temp internet files, and defraging

the drive, scanning for viruses (online free panda scan) as well as AVG free, scanning for spyware with

Ad-Aware and Spybot search and destroy.

What I notice is that when I select all the files in the C drive and have it tell me the size, it only comes out

to 2.77 gigs. Now the rest of it is what I would like free. But I dont know where to look at this point.

So my problem is where the hell is this crap on my drive that is taking up so much space.

thx and tips would be appreciated.

 

[Tyrant222]

ttt

 

[Joemonkey]

your page file is most likely taking up a large amount

do a search on that drive for files greater than 5MB, then 50MB, then 100MB if you still have a huge list, then delete stuff

if you do a lot of burning, you may have temp CD image files on the drive that can be around 700MB

 

[Tyrant222]

Hi thx for the reply monkey,

I tried searching over 100mb, only had 1 file there at 273mb. not much help

Also not many files greater that 50mb.

A nice try I suppose.

I do burn cds, but not often. Wouldnt the images show up in search?? I checked off search hidden files

and folders.

 

[Anubis]

do you use norton antiviruses protected recycle bin?

if so turn it off and delete the files in it and you will get your space back