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[Solved] Can't find why my hard drive is so full
Mandalorian Rooster
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Gonna start by saying I'm not the most knowledgeable person when it comes to computers.
A couple months back a friend reinstalled Vista for me after I got a new motherboard and processor. I didn't bother uninstalling my fairly large number of games from my computer, because I figured they'd just get wiped on the new install. Turns out he just reinstalled over the old one, taking up huge amounts of space. After some looking and doing, I went into disk cleanup and figured out how to delete old windows installs, giving me what I assumed was all of that space back.
So earlier today I'm going through and deleting a couple large games I'm not going to be coming back to, and the space isn't adding up. I've got ~50 gb of games but I'm using ~150 gb of my hard drive. So I do a search for files larger than a gb, and one of them that shows up is audio from a fraps video from the old install, which I thought I killed with the disk cleanup.
So what exactly is going on? How do I free up more room, because using 100 gb before games just doesn't sound right.
A couple months back a friend reinstalled Vista for me after I got a new motherboard and processor. I didn't bother uninstalling my fairly large number of games from my computer, because I figured they'd just get wiped on the new install. Turns out he just reinstalled over the old one, taking up huge amounts of space. After some looking and doing, I went into disk cleanup and figured out how to delete old windows installs, giving me what I assumed was all of that space back.
So earlier today I'm going through and deleting a couple large games I'm not going to be coming back to, and the space isn't adding up. I've got ~50 gb of games but I'm using ~150 gb of my hard drive. So I do a search for files larger than a gb, and one of them that shows up is audio from a fraps video from the old install, which I thought I killed with the disk cleanup.
So what exactly is going on? How do I free up more room, because using 100 gb before games just doesn't sound right.
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This will give you a visualization and detailed description of whats taking up room on your HDD. I find it quite useful, perhaps you will too.
edit: and no, I only have one drive.
that's why we call it the struggle, you're supposed to sweat
edit: So checking the internets for more info, it looks like I just have the one partition.
Apparently I had 66 gigs of them. I used this info to lower how much it stores, and that accounts for everything.
Thanks for the help.