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Old Apr 17, 2009, 07:04 AM
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Hard drive shows nearly full but its not

Lenovo LS500 Laptop. Vista. 160gig hard drive. Has small Service S: partition 1.5 GB, a small Lenovo Service Q: partition 9.5 GB, and the main C: partition. The C: partition is 137 GB but only shows 32 GB free. I only have about 60 GB of data on this drive so I expect to see closer to 65 GB of free space. I've displayed hidden files, defragged, disk cleanup, lowered size of recovery space to 5 GB, installed and ran treesize (nothing shows there), installed and ran CCleaner, erased temp files, etc. Some of those actions helped (was only 11 GB free) but I can't find the rest. Any ideas? Jeff

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Old Apr 17, 2009, 06:29 PM   #11  
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That is a lot of files. But at 43 GB, that would be 4 megabytes of slack space per file and Windows doesn't waste nearly that much. The "cluster size" is only 4 kilobytes per file, and you expect, on the average, half of the last cluster will be wasted. So, for 11,000 files, you would expect only about 22 megabytes of slack space.

Nope. I think there is still something that's eating up your space. I still suspect large files. I've seen that happen once before, but I don't remember what caused them. I deleted a whole mess of files and recovered many gigabytes for one friend.

Have you looked into Disk Management? (Start | Run - DiskMgmt.msc - Go) Are there any other partitions that you don't know about?
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Just looked at Disk Mgmt. No surprises. Just the 3 partitions I already knew about. It says the C partition is Healthy (boot, page file, crash dump, primary partion). NFTS file system. 0% overhead. 24% free space (32GB of 137GB). TreeSize and DiskZoom all show the same. I'm stumped.
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I'm stumped, too. Sorry.
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Ok, first off it's Vista, so it's allocating a rather gangly amount of room for the OS and all areas of function in addition to it being an IBM Lenovo, which means there's going to be at least a hidden boot partition around there somewhere that makes ghosting the drive next to impossible. IBM is notorious for doing this, second there's way more trash on your drive than what you're seeing.

Right click anywhere in the open area of your desktop and on the drop down menu, click new, shortcut. You'll be presented with a window that asks for the location path of the item that the shortcut is for. In that location, type in the following (copy and paste the following to make it easier!):

%SystemRoot%\System32\Cmd.exe /c Cleanmgr /sageset:35 & Cleanmgr /sagerun:35

EVERYTHING on this list is JUNK that you don't need to keep, check all the boxes ensuring you scroll down to the bottom of the list and click on the OK button. Now if you have NEVER done this before it will take some time to go through. But once you do it, subsequent runs will be that much faster.

You can also try the additional steps listed here - Keepin' it Clean - Helljack6.com as I've been told by several people that these steps works just as good on Vista as they do on XP, hope it helps.

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Old Oct 21, 2009, 11:06 AM   #15  
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I had this same problem on my Lenovo thinkpad. Check this out it helped me.
http://www.wikihow.com/Reduce-Shadow-Copy-on-Windows-Vista
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Lenovo has a utility called Rescue and Recovery that creates a hidden filesystem that is not accessible by the file system. Go to Thinkvantage - rescue and recovery - view all backups and delete them. You'll recover your space.
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