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Full hard drive

croaly

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Posted April 12, 2012 at 8:15PM

The hard drive on my lap top is almost full but when I check my documents it amounts to about 300GB of data but when I look at the individual folders it amounts to only 137Gb of data

Does anyone have any hints and tips on how to find out why there is more data than I can find

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Dragon_Heart

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Posted April 12, 2012 at 9:06PM

Assume you have defragmented your hard drive ? If not try http://www.piriform.com/defraggler/download/standard

When you say “documents” have you taken into account your operating system and other software ?

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john bunyan

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Posted April 12, 2012 at 9:45PM

You could try the free Tree size download to see what it is.Here it is treesize

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robinofloxley

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Posted April 12, 2012 at 10:05PM

show hidden files and folders

Run Ccleaner and also delete a few Restore Points (Tools/System Restore)

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croaly

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Posted April 12, 2012 at 10:21PM

I have used the treesize and discovered large cache files. Thanks for your help, problem solved

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