what is using my HD space?

[headtheball]

I have a 30GB HD on an xp home OS, it also has office 2003 with 512 DDram
2.6mhz processor. I had a virus that caused me to reinstall win xp but when
I reinstalled with nothing but the PnP devices attached, it said that my
drive had only 27 point something gb left. Now I know that the OS isn't that
big so where has the remaining 2GB gone? I am now down to 15gb but for the
life of me I cannot figure out where/what is using all that HD space. I have
checked what programs I have installed etc etc but I cannot find one thing
that is really eating the drive space. I must admit I have a lot of images
(for business use, Coins if you are interested) but I make sure that I scale
them all down to below 50kb each. Can anyone tell me what I should be
looking for to regain some HD space. Please don't say use disk cleanup
because the most space that has ever recovered is about 1mb

[milton]

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that's about right...


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[krok dundee]

headtheball wrote:

> I have a 30GB HD on an xp home OS, it also has office 2003 with 512 DDram
> 2.6mhz processor. I had a virus that caused me to reinstall win xp but when
> I reinstalled with nothing but the PnP devices attached, it said that my
> drive had only 27 point something gb left. Now I know that the OS isn't that
> big so where has the remaining 2GB gone? I am now down to 15gb but for the
> life of me I cannot figure out where/what is using all that HD space. I have
> checked what programs I have installed etc etc but I cannot find one thing
> that is really eating the drive space. I must admit I have a lot of images
> (for business use, Coins if you are interested) but I make sure that I scale
> them all down to below 50kb each. Can anyone tell me what I should be
> looking for to regain some HD space. Please don't say use disk cleanup
> because the most space that has ever recovered is about 1mb
>
>
Hi Head, did you reformat your hd as NTFS ? how big is your page file?
not forgetting that the file system will take a chunk out of your hard
drive even b4 u install windows.... run a search on files bigger then
say 1 meg and see what u find... rob

[headtheball]

thx Rob
"krok dundee" > wrote in message
...
> headtheball wrote:
>
> > I have a 30GB HD on an xp home OS, it also has office 2003 with 512
DDram
> > 2.6mhz processor. I had a virus that caused me to reinstall win xp but
when
> > I reinstalled with nothing but the PnP devices attached, it said that my
> > drive had only 27 point something gb left. Now I know that the OS isn't
that
> > big so where has the remaining 2GB gone? I am now down to 15gb but for
the
> > life of me I cannot figure out where/what is using all that HD space. I
have
> > checked what programs I have installed etc etc but I cannot find one
thing
> > that is really eating the drive space. I must admit I have a lot of
images
> > (for business use, Coins if you are interested) but I make sure that I
scale
> > them all down to below 50kb each. Can anyone tell me what I should be
> > looking for to regain some HD space. Please don't say use disk cleanup
> > because the most space that has ever recovered is about 1mb
> >
> >
> Hi Head, did you reformat your hd as NTFS ? how big is your page file?
> not forgetting that the file system will take a chunk out of your hard
> drive even b4 u install windows.... run a search on files bigger then
> say 1 meg and see what u find... rob