Diskspace calcuation issue

Hi,

I have 8 GB partiion on which I have my XP installed. I have a lot of
applications installed on the same drive(not that many which can fill up the
whole disk). Since the last 3 weeks it started to show me the message that my
C drive is running low on space. I have deleted and moved out possibliy all
files on this partition to another partition. Also every time i reduce space
it fills up very fast. I had removed Visual Studio too nd possibly all the
applications which were installed.
Suddently 2 days back when I checked for the space, it showed me 3 GB of
empty disk space. I was quite puzzeled over this.
Any how how long does windows take to calculate the exact disk space?i mean
this is really wierd.
Also I have a firewall installed. I have changed its log path to another
partition, thinking that this was the reason why it was filling up space. But
it turned out it was not.
Can some one probably help me out to answer the above ...thanks a lot

Regards
Nikhil

Originally Posted by Nikhil

Hi,

I have 8 GB partiion on which I have my XP installed. I have a lot of
applications installed on the same drive(not that many which can fill up the
whole disk). Since the last 3 weeks it started to show me the message that my
C drive is running low on space. I have deleted and moved out possibliy all
files on this partition to another partition. Also every time i reduce space
it fills up very fast. I had removed Visual Studio too nd possibly all the
applications which were installed.
Suddently 2 days back when I checked for the space, it showed me 3 GB of
empty disk space. I was quite puzzeled over this.
Any how how long does windows take to calculate the exact disk space?i mean
this is really wierd.
Also I have a firewall installed. I have changed its log path to another
partition, thinking that this was the reason why it was filling up space. But
it turned out it was not.
Can some one probably help me out to answer the above ...thanks a lot

Regards
Nikhil

Run a disk cleanup, take out the temporary files, if u have Norton Protected, delete that also old restore points. After that chkdsk and defragment the drive since you uninstalled/deleted a lot of stuff and then check ur free space.

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Hi,

I have 8 GB partiion on which I have my XP installed. I have a lot of
applications installed on the same drive(not that many which can fill up
the
whole disk). Since the last 3 weeks it started to show me the message that
my
C drive is running low on space. I have deleted and moved out possibliy
all
files on this partition to another partition. Also every time i reduce
space
it fills up very fast. I had removed Visual Studio too nd possibly all the
applications which were installed.
Suddently 2 days back when I checked for the space, it showed me 3 GB of
empty disk space. I was quite puzzeled over this.
Any how how long does windows take to calculate the exact disk space?i
mean
this is really wierd.
Also I have a firewall installed. I have changed its log path to another
partition, thinking that this was the reason why it was filling up space.
But
it turned out it was not.
Can some one probably help me out to answer the above ...thanks a lot

Regards
Nikhil

Run the CHKDSK utility and it may find and fix any errors causing the false
reporting of free space on the drive.

Open a Command prompt and type:

chkdsk /?

for chkdsk syntax and help.

For example:

chkdsk c: /f

Answer Yes when it asks if you want to run chkdsk at next reboot.
Reboot and keep fingers crossed!

Martin.