What is using all of my disk space???

[LOUISSSSS]

running Vista premium 32

i just got a new laptop and installed a few basic programs, none to my knowledge are viruses or have any spyware/adware (have AVG, BOClean, Malwarebytes, Spybot, Defender, & Comodo Firewall protecting my system)

just opened up my computer today and saw that i have about 80-100gb of data that i cannot locate on my hard drive.. and i only have 12gb of 160gb of space left on my 1 week old laptop.

rundown of folders in C drive:
-DRIVERS: 4.97 MB
-Icons: 1.24 kb
-Intel: 38.4 kb
-mfg: 256 kb
-Preflogs: 0 bytes
-Program Files: 3.11 gb
-SWShare: 1.31 mb
-SWTOOLS: 1.24 gb
-Users: 15.5gb (contains my personal media; photos, music,movies)
-Windows: 10.6 gb

Totals: est~31 gb used of 137gb partition, should have about 100gb free space.


settings:
-drive is indexed for faster searching
-drive is enabled for writing cache
-drive is enabled for "advance performance" (HDD -> policies -> tick both boxes)

is there ANY way besides searching through every folder in my C drive to find what files are taking up all my space?

 

[Navid]

Originally posted by: LOUISSSSS
is there ANY way besides searching through every folder in my C drive to find what files are taking up all my space?

http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml
TreeSize shows you sorted folders and files in order of size.
It will not show the occupied space by system restore though.

 

[ViRGE]

System restore caps out at 15% anyhow, it wouldn't be using more than 20GB, and usually it's much less than that.

 

[bobross419]

You don't have a quota set on your account or anything do you?

 

[corkyg]

Indexing for faster search takes up quite a bit of space - and if in Vista, Shadow Copies, which support System Restore, also take up space. And, NTFS has a "MFT Reserved Zone" that is based on factors relating to your data and drive capacity. Also, don't forget your Pagefile.

As you optimize your system for performance, you are, in effect, trading off drive space to support it.

 

[Seppe]

hibernation file takes up the amount of ram you have installed on the system partition...

 

[pugh]

Originally posted by: Seppe
hibernation file takes up the amount of ram you have installed on the system partition...

He said HDD space. What does RAM have to do with it? hibernation would not eat up 80-100gb either.

 

[techmanc]

Do you have hide hidden file and folder set and hide operating system files unchecked so you can see hidden files?

 

[Rhonda the Sly]

He said HDD space. What does RAM have to do with it? hibernation would not eat up 80-100gb either.

No, it wouldn't take 80~100GB, but in this case it would take 4GB (per account, I believe).