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disk seems to have only 1/2 the stuff its size says
Got XP Pro computer in from son. Not sure what is going on. Properties
says the disk has 109gb free out of a total size of 149. That comes to 40gb of stuff. I cannot account for it. Highlighting all the NTFS "C:" drive shows only 18gb actual in files . There is a 1gb swap file and that Volumn directory that I cant explorer . I got rid of all restore points and rebooted. That dropped it down to the above but did not get rid of 20.0 gb of unaccounted for files or "dark matter" Checkdisk shows no problems on this uncompressed 149gb SATA drive. Got rid of that temp directory in "local settings" . There are 300mb of office setup files that I dont want to delete. Dir/h showed that swap file and the System Volumn directory that I cant access. Is there anything else I can do to find where the 20gb+ of stuff is? Something is not right and it needs to be fixed before we upgrade to vista home premium. |
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Beemer Biker wrote:
Got XP Pro computer in from son. Not sure what is going on. Properties says the disk has 109gb free out of a total size of 149. That comes to 40gb of stuff. I cannot account for it. Highlighting all the NTFS "C:" drive shows only 18gb actual in files . There is a 1gb swap file and that Volumn directory that I cant explorer . I got rid of all restore points and rebooted. That dropped it down to the above but did not get rid of 20.0 gb of unaccounted for files or "dark matter" Checkdisk shows no problems on this uncompressed 149gb SATA drive. Got rid of that temp directory in "local settings" . There are 300mb of office setup files that I dont want to delete. Dir/h showed that swap file and the System Volumn directory that I cant access. Is there anything else I can do to find where the 20gb+ of stuff is? Something is not right and it needs to be fixed before we upgrade to vista home premium. Microsoft has always believed "all your machines are belong to us." I imagine that's who is holding the rest hostage. -- The e-mail address in our reply-to line is reversed in an attempt to minimize spam. Our true address is of the form . |
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Previously Beemer Biker wrote:
Got XP Pro computer in from son. Not sure what is going on. Properties says the disk has 109gb free out of a total size of 149. That comes to 40gb of stuff. I cannot account for it. Highlighting all the NTFS "C:" drive shows only 18gb actual in files . There is a 1gb swap file and that Volumn directory that I cant explorer . I got rid of all restore points and rebooted. That dropped it down to the above but did not get rid of 20.0 gb of unaccounted for files or "dark matter" Checkdisk shows no problems on this uncompressed 149gb SATA drive. Got rid of that temp directory in "local settings" . There are 300mb of office setup files that I dont want to delete. Dir/h showed that swap file and the System Volumn directory that I cant access. Is there anything else I can do to find where the 20gb+ of stuff is? Something is not right and it needs to be fixed before we upgrade to vista home premium. Disk space is organized in clusters, for example 4kB in size. The unused space in tha last cluster is lost in most filesystems, since it is not too effective and difficult to use it. In fact the only one I know that does not loose it is RaiserFS. With larger partitions, the clusters get larger. It is one reason to partition disks. Now a 149GB single partition set-up would have 64kB cluster size. 20GB of lost space on average happen with 625'000 files. An other possibility is lost space due to filesystem problems. MS filesystems are by far the worst in the industry and tend to have all sorts of problems, including lost clusters. If the 625k file number is not realistic, try running a full filesystem check. Arno |
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On Wed, 2 May 2007 18:42:45 -0500, "Beemer Biker"
wrote: Got XP Pro computer in from son. Not sure what is going on. Properties says the disk has 109gb free out of a total size of 149. That comes to 40gb of stuff. I cannot account for it. Highlighting all the NTFS "C:" drive shows only 18gb actual in files . There is a 1gb swap file and that Volumn directory that I cant explorer . I got rid of all restore points and rebooted. That dropped it down to the above but did not get rid of 20.0 gb of unaccounted for files or "dark matter" Checkdisk shows no problems on this uncompressed 149gb SATA drive. Got rid of that temp directory in "local settings" . There are 300mb of office setup files that I dont want to delete. Dir/h showed that swap file and the System Volumn directory that I cant access. Is there anything else I can do to find where the 20gb+ of stuff is? Something is not right and it needs to be fixed before we upgrade to vista home premium. That System Volume Information folder contains all the Restore Point information. It can take up a lot of space. You can either add your account to the security profile for that folder so you can see how much is in there, or just disable System Restore and it will purge the folder. I wouldn't install Vista however. It's too clunky and slow. Maybe if there were some kickass program that would only run under Vista, but even then I'd think twice. -- Michael Cecil http://home.roadrunner.com/~macecil/ http://home.roadrunner.com/~safehex/ http://home.roadrunner.com/~macecil/hackingvista/ |
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disk seems to have only 1/2 the stuff its size says
Run a disk usage program such as SC-DiskInfo Standard Edition.
http://www.bestvistadownloads.com/software/k-disk-usage-t-free-sc-diskinfo-standard-edition-download-ajysiyjm.html On Wed, 2 May 2007 18:42:45 -0500, "Beemer Biker" wrote: Got XP Pro computer in from son. Not sure what is going on. Properties says the disk has 109gb free out of a total size of 149. That comes to 40gb of stuff. I cannot account for it. Highlighting all the NTFS "C:" drive shows only 18gb actual in files . There is a 1gb swap file and that Volumn directory that I cant explorer . I got rid of all restore points and rebooted. That dropped it down to the above but did not get rid of 20.0 gb of unaccounted for files or "dark matter" Checkdisk shows no problems on this uncompressed 149gb SATA drive. Got rid of that temp directory in "local settings" . There are 300mb of office setup files that I dont want to delete. Dir/h showed that swap file and the System Volumn directory that I cant access. Is there anything else I can do to find where the 20gb+ of stuff is? Something is not right and it needs to be fixed before we upgrade to vista home premium. |
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Previously Michael Cecil wrote:
On Wed, 2 May 2007 18:42:45 -0500, "Beemer Biker" wrote: Got XP Pro computer in from son. Not sure what is going on. Properties says the disk has 109gb free out of a total size of 149. That comes to 40gb of stuff. I cannot account for it. Highlighting all the NTFS "C:" drive shows only 18gb actual in files . There is a 1gb swap file and that Volumn directory that I cant explorer . I got rid of all restore points and rebooted. That dropped it down to the above but did not get rid of 20.0 gb of unaccounted for files or "dark matter" Checkdisk shows no problems on this uncompressed 149gb SATA drive. Got rid of that temp directory in "local settings" . There are 300mb of office setup files that I dont want to delete. Dir/h showed that swap file and the System Volumn directory that I cant access. Is there anything else I can do to find where the 20gb+ of stuff is? Something is not right and it needs to be fixed before we upgrade to vista home premium. That System Volume Information folder contains all the Restore Point information. It can take up a lot of space. You can either add your account to the security profile for that folder so you can see how much is in there, or just disable System Restore and it will purge the folder. I wouldn't install Vista however. It's too clunky and slow. Maybe if there were some kickass program that would only run under Vista, but even then I'd think twice. Good advice. Frankly I don't see efven many games running significanlty better with Vista. The only ones will be these actually being paid for by Microsoft. HALO 2 comes to mind. However I found HALO repertitive and boring rnough after a reasonable start, that I stopped playing it after seeing the 500th reandomly generated room. To likely HALO 2 is a waste of time. All the other games want to target a large market share. Hopefully this DX10 nonsense will make even more game companies move to OpenGL, were they are not anymore dependent on the MS fad of the year and can easily port their stuff to other platforms. As to Vista in general, it seems the MS business model of dragging out upgrading Windows to the standards of the other OSes around has finally run its course with XP. Vista is either unsuitable for an application or not worth the upgrade from XP. A pity MS can drop selling XP. Arno |
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Arno Wagner wrote:
Disk space is organized in clusters, for example 4kB in size. The unused space in tha last cluster is lost in most filesystems, since it is not too effective and difficult to use it. In fact the only one I know that does not loose it is RaiserFS. With larger partitions, the clusters get larger. It is one reason to partition disks. Now a 149GB single partition set-up would have 64kB cluster size. 20GB of lost space on average happen with 625'000 files. That huge cluster size would only occur if the HD is formated with FAT32, which is unlikely. With the NTFS filesystem (far more likely with any PC that shipped with XP PRO), the cluster size would still be 4KB, so 20GB of missing space would mean roughly 10,000,000 files. Nah. -- Cheers, Bob |
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Previously Bob Willard wrote:
Arno Wagner wrote: Disk space is organized in clusters, for example 4kB in size. The unused space in tha last cluster is lost in most filesystems, since it is not too effective and difficult to use it. In fact the only one I know that does not loose it is RaiserFS. With larger partitions, the clusters get larger. It is one reason to partition disks. Now a 149GB single partition set-up would have 64kB cluster size. 20GB of lost space on average happen with 625'000 files. That huge cluster size would only occur if the HD is formated with FAT32, which is unlikely. With the NTFS filesystem (far more likely with any PC that shipped with XP PRO), the cluster size would still be 4KB, so 20GB of missing space would mean roughly 10,000,000 files. Nah. Hmm. Seems I found incorrect information on the web.... Arno |
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"Arno Wagner" wrote in message ...
Previously Bob Willard wrote: That huge cluster size would only occur if the HD is formated with FAT32, which is unlikely. With the NTFS filesystem (far more likely with any PC that shipped with XP PRO), the cluster size would still be 4KB, so 20GB of missing space would mean roughly 10,000,000 files. Nah. Hmm. Seems I found incorrect information on the web.... The story of your life... |
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Arno Wagner wrote:
Previously Michael Cecil wrote: On Wed, 2 May 2007 18:42:45 -0500, "Beemer Biker" wrote: Got XP Pro computer in from son. Not sure what is going on. Properties says the disk has 109gb free out of a total size of 149. That comes to 40gb of stuff. I cannot account for it. Highlighting all the NTFS "C:" drive shows only 18gb actual in files . There is a 1gb swap file and that Volumn directory that I cant explorer . I got rid of all restore points and rebooted. That dropped it down to the above but did not get rid of 20.0 gb of unaccounted for files or "dark matter" Checkdisk shows no problems on this uncompressed 149gb SATA drive. Got rid of that temp directory in "local settings" . There are 300mb of office setup files that I dont want to delete. Dir/h showed that swap file and the System Volumn directory that I cant access. Is there anything else I can do to find where the 20gb+ of stuff is? Something is not right and it needs to be fixed before we upgrade to vista home premium. That System Volume Information folder contains all the Restore Point information. It can take up a lot of space. You can either add your account to the security profile for that folder so you can see how much is in there, or just disable System Restore and it will purge the folder. I wouldn't install Vista however. It's too clunky and slow. Maybe if there were some kickass program that would only run under Vista, but even then I'd think twice. Good advice. Frankly I don't see efven many games running significanlty better with Vista. The only ones will be these actually being paid for by Microsoft. HALO 2 comes to mind. However I found HALO repertitive and boring rnough after a reasonable start, that I stopped playing it after seeing the 500th reandomly generated room. To likely HALO 2 is a waste of time. All the other games want to target a large market share. Hopefully this DX10 nonsense will make even more game companies move to OpenGL, were they are not anymore dependent on the MS fad of the year and can easily port their stuff to other platforms. As to Vista in general, it seems the MS business model of dragging out upgrading Windows to the standards of the other OSes around has finally run its course with XP. Vista is either unsuitable for an application or not worth the upgrade from XP. A pity MS can drop selling XP. The same mindless claim was made when XP showed up replacing 2K too. |
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