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Discussion in 'BBS Hangout' started by The_Yoyo, Mar 5, 2009.

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  1. The_Yoyo

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    so i got a new laptop with a 200gig hd on it and the hard drive space seems to keep shrinking on me.

    the laptop has vista on it, first time i have used vista on a personal computer.

    last night i had 90.5 gb free which seemed a bit small considering how much i have put on the laptop.

    then right now i have downloaded or have in my utorrent about 2gb worth of movies/tv shows/r2k clips downloading.

    i checked my free space and it shows 85.7 gb free

    anyone know what the deal could be? i dont think the hard drive is bad because its not clicking or anything like that...but it seems a lot of free space is just disappearing.

    any help? thanks


    edit: i was able to free up 2gb by running disk cleanup from the "hibernation file cleaner" not sure what that is..

    also this is my first laptop always been a desktop guy outside of work laptops

    edit #2: ok so i read up i will keep getting that hibernation thing back but i was able to find that hard drive space by running a disk cleanup on the backup/shadow images by deleting all of them but the most recent one.

    is there anyway to turn that feature off...that literally gave me back 18 gigs on my drive
     
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    Superfetch, pagefile.sys, etc. all can use disk space on your drive. How much RAM do you have?
     
    #2 Dr of Dunk, Mar 5, 2009
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    There's probably an invisible partition for software that comes with the computer.
     
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    #4 Dr of Dunk, Mar 5, 2009
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    i dont think so i had 174 gigs free out of 180 after i uninstalled all the crap that came with the computer that i didnt want.

    so if there was a partition it should be within that 6gb i think.
     
    #5 The_Yoyo, Mar 6, 2009
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    thanks i did take care of that but that saved only 2 gb of space since thats how much ram i have..

    when i did the shadow/backup cleanup that was in the advanced tab of cleanup
    that when i was able to get back about 19 gigs on my drive
     
    #6 The_Yoyo, Mar 6, 2009
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    Windows Side By Side

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    Almost no way around it. It's a piece of junk that's supposed to allow multiple programs to access the same files/drivers/dll files, etc. (remember DLL Hell?)

    Anyway, that's probably a big culprit. Last I checked, my Vista partition had 8 gigs worth of files in that, and you can't really delete them easily...nor should you really...One thing I really hate about Vista.
     
    #7 Miguel, Mar 6, 2009
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    I think turning off system restore should help quite a bit, if you're willing to do that. I have a 200gb hard drive in my laptop, too, and every one one of those gb is precious
     
    #8 MisterPink, Mar 6, 2009
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