My harddrive doesnt add up to what it is

2008-01-05 18:35:39

#1

elite3444: The other kid; +24|7115|USA

ok my harddrive has said i have 20gb for a while and now it says 91.8mb left

its a computer i got in APRIL

i couldnt have used that much of a 113gb C drive

when i added up the amount in each file of the C drive it ends up being <78gb ive used

WTF!!!!?!?!?!?! whys it say ive used almost 113gb when ive only used around 78

anyone know why it might say that?

2008-01-05 19:06:18

#2

aimless: Member; +166|6603|Texas

System Restore is on?

2008-01-05 19:08:45

#3

RECONDO67: Member; +60|7114|miami FL

clean up the disk and empty the recycle bin

2008-01-05 19:10:00

#4

Brasso: member; +1,549|7108

aimless wrote:
System Restore is on?

Find the answer to the question above, that may be it...

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2008-01-06 01:07:48

#5

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|7045|NYC / Hamburg

sys restore, recycle bin, pagefile & hiberfil.sys can take up a lot of space

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2008-01-06 01:46:56

#6

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6917|King Of The Islands

Its not that he's used up all his space.
Its that if he adds up all the files and folders its 35GB free, yet the pie says he only has 18MB left.

This is usually from a second user account (it sees the entire account as 0MB).

- Clean up anything you don't need
- Run www.ccleaner.com on every account
- Turn System Restore off and on again so you have 1 restore point

Edit: Oh and turn Indexing off on C:

Last edited by Cheez (2008-01-06 01:47:33)

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2008-01-06 09:27:28

#7

Stubbee: Religions Hate Facts, Questions and Doubts; +223|7221|Reality

I will bet if he looked at his cluster size he would find the answer.

NTFS breaks up your hard drive into clusters for file allocation. The size of the cluster depends on a few factors but typically it is 4kb. If you average file size is 1 kb it means you waste, on average, 3kb of space for every file you have.

So for example if you have a 1Gb drive and save 100 1kb files you have used 400kb of hard drive space. Of that 400kb only 100kb is your files.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315688

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2008-01-06 09:30:23

#8

{B-T}<babacanosh>: Member; +31|7080

defragmentation works

2008-01-06 10:20:13

#9

Poseidon: Fudgepack DeQueef; +3,253|7016|Long Island, New York

Same thing's been happening to me. My 150 gig raptor keeps jumping from 28gb, to 20gb, to as low as 13 gb and I haven't installed anything new.

Download ccleaner and defrag the drive.

2008-01-06 15:04:43

#10

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|7214|Salt Lake City

Stubbee wrote:
I will bet if he looked at his cluster size he would find the answer.

NTFS breaks up your hard drive into clusters for file allocation. The size of the cluster depends on a few factors but typically it is 4kb. If you average file size is 1 kb it means you waste, on average, 3kb of space for every file you have.

So for example if you have a 1Gb drive and save 100 1kb files you have used 400kb of hard drive space. Of that 400kb only 100kb is your files.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315688

Quite true. However, typical NTFS cluster size is 16K or more.

2008-01-06 16:22:04

#11

mikkel: Member; +383|7079

Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:
Stubbee wrote:
I will bet if he looked at his cluster size he would find the answer.

NTFS breaks up your hard drive into clusters for file allocation. The size of the cluster depends on a few factors but typically it is 4kb. If you average file size is 1 kb it means you waste, on average, 3kb of space for every file you have.

So for example if you have a 1Gb drive and save 100 1kb files you have used 400kb of hard drive space. Of that 400kb only 100kb is your files.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315688
Quite true. However, typical NTFS cluster size is 16K or more.

Well, the Windows installer formats NTFS partitions above 2GiB with a cluster size of 4KiB, and it only gets smaller the more compact your partition gets.

I really doubt that this is down to file allocation loss alone. Considering that usage is at almost 200% of the expected, it almost sounds like he has volume shadow copy turned on.

OP: If you have a tab called "Previous Versions" when you go to the properties page for any given file, let us know.

Last edited by mikkel (2008-01-06 16:23:28)

2008-01-06 16:54:19

#12

Agent_Dung_Bomb: Member; +302|7214|Salt Lake City

mikkel wrote:
Agent_Dung_Bomb wrote:
Stubbee wrote:
I will bet if he looked at his cluster size he would find the answer.

NTFS breaks up your hard drive into clusters for file allocation. The size of the cluster depends on a few factors but typically it is 4kb. If you average file size is 1 kb it means you waste, on average, 3kb of space for every file you have.

So for example if you have a 1Gb drive and save 100 1kb files you have used 400kb of hard drive space. Of that 400kb only 100kb is your files.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/315688
Quite true. However, typical NTFS cluster size is 16K or more.
Well, the Windows installer formats NTFS partitions above 2GiB with a cluster size of 4KiB, and it only gets smaller the more compact your partition gets.

I really doubt that this is down to file allocation loss alone. Considering that usage is at almost 200% of the expected, it almost sounds like he has volume shadow copy turned on.

OP: If you have a tab called "Previous Versions" when you go to the properties page for any given file, let us know.

I agree. While cluster size increases with larger drives, the loss sounds more like files that wouldn't normally show up, like the system restore point files, recycle bin usage, and swap file.

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