Out of hard drive space on c drive

29 Mar 2005 6:26 PM

Jasper Recto

I have a windows 2000 server that is out of hard drive space on the c:
drive. Something has caused it to use up all it's space. It's a 4GB
partition and it says that there is only less than 1MB of free space left.
My pagefile is NOT on this drive. The weird thing is that when I highlight
all files, including hidden files, it only adds up to about 2GB of space.
Why is it doing this? Why does it say that there is only 1MB of space left
even though all the files add up to only 2 GB. That would mean that there
should still be around another 2GB of space left.

Any ideas?
Thanks,
Jasper

29 Mar 2005 6:39 PM

Nick Moore

Under Folder Options, is it set to "Hide Protected Operating system Files"?
If that is checked, it will not count them when getting properties on the
folder.

Nick

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"Jasper Recto" wrote:

> I have a windows 2000 server that is out of hard drive space on the c:
> drive. Something has caused it to use up all it's space. It's a 4GB
> partition and it says that there is only less than 1MB of free space left.
> My pagefile is NOT on this drive. The weird thing is that when I highlight
> all files, including hidden files, it only adds up to about 2GB of space.
> Why is it doing this? Why does it say that there is only 1MB of space left
> even though all the files add up to only 2 GB. That would mean that there
> should still be around another 2GB of space left.
>
> Any ideas?
> Thanks,
> Jasper
>
>
>

30 Mar 2005 4:17 AM

Dave Patrick

Consider that every file and directory listing (no matter what size) takes
up at least one cluster. Slack space is the area between the end of the file
and the end of the cluster. It can be calculated roughly by taking 1/2 of
the drive's allocation unit (cluster size) times the number of files, this
is the average wasted space. If you have a lot of small files then the
wasted space figure could be larger.

From a command prompt at the root of the drive in question;
chkdsk
to find out your cluster size (allocation unit)

Some things to check;
Clean out your %windir%\Temp, and \Documents and Settings\%username%\Local
Settings\Temp directory. Delete the Temporary Internet Files, and History.
Do you have a disk defragmenter, if not get one and use it. You could use
Find|Files/ Folders and search the drive for; say files greater than 5mB and
then decide if they're needed. Check the %windir% directory for a
$NtServicePackUninstall$ directory, if your current service pack is stable
and you don't anticipate backing down, you can delete the dir. Also check
for the existence of User.dmp and Memory.dmp (both, by default should be in
the %windir% directory) you can delete these unless your going to send them
to the application vendor, or Microsoft for troubleshooting purposes. Other
options are; moving the pagefile to one of the other drives, uninstall your
programs that are installed in C:\Program Files and reinstall them to
D:\Program Files If you have a lot of local user profiles stored, you can
move them, see this article for info on this.

How to Move the Location of a Locally Cached Profile
http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q214/4/70.ASP

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft Certified Professional
Microsoft MVP [Windows]
http://www.microsoft.com/protect

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"Jasper Recto" wrote:
|I have a windows 2000 server that is out of hard drive space on the c:
| drive. Something has caused it to use up all it's space. It's a 4GB
| partition and it says that there is only less than 1MB of free space left.
| My pagefile is NOT on this drive. The weird thing is that when I
highlight
| all files, including hidden files, it only adds up to about 2GB of space.
| Why is it doing this? Why does it say that there is only 1MB of space
left
| even though all the files add up to only 2 GB. That would mean that there
| should still be around another 2GB of space left.
|
| Any ideas?
| Thanks,
| Jasper
|
|