Gerry

Bryan

A large part will be the System Volume Information Folder -System
Restore and Shadow Copies -up to 15% of the drive capacity. Other
programmes can also hide files.


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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"Bryan" <Bryan@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:2BE7052C-E189-4096-A1A7-D5B67E9742AE@microsoft.com...
> There are many posts about missing disk space in Vista.
> Even after completely disabling System Restore I still have almost 1/2
> my HD
> space missing. Following are the totals used for all directory trees,
> the
> grand total used, and the total chkdsk reports used. dir/a/s was used
> for a
> directories and dir/a for c:\ so the hibernation file and pagefile,
> etc. are
> included in the visible disk space used.
> Where are the 31+ Gigs of space and how can I get it back?
>
> 6 File(s) 4,589,640,338 bytes root
> 2 File(s) 258 bytes $Recycle.Bin
> 36 File(s) 17,374,572 bytes Boot
> 1239 File(s) 4,530,583,455 bytes Downloads
> 96 File(s) 45,240,932 bytes Drivers
> 4 File(s) 48,658 bytes Garmin
> 1 File(s) 135,680 bytes Intel
> 109 File(s) 304,378,382 bytes MSOCache
> 34078 File(s) 1,261,099,022 bytes OnOffLin
> 39 File(s) 12,828,308 bytes perflogs
> 0 File(s) 0 bytes preboot
> 1202 File(s) 364,731,149 bytes Program Files
> 13261 File(s) 2,394,878,728 bytes Program Files (x86)
> 710 File(s) 177,276,910 bytes ProgramData
> 0 File(s) 0 bytes RRbackups
> 23 File(s) 8,995,053 bytes SanDisk 16Meg Card
> 41 File(s) 10,976,913 bytes SanDisk 1Gig Card
> 455 File(s) 993,513,565 bytes SanDisk 2Gig Card
> 17 File(s) 36,560,057 bytes SWSHARE
> 2 File(s) 184,320 bytes SystemUpdate
> 65249 File(s) 2,489,944,173 bytes Thinkpad T60p
> 0 File(s) 0 bytes tvtos
> 27297 File(s) 18,684,383,139 bytes Users
> 53516 File(s) 11,865,053,121 bytes Windows
> ______________
> 47,787,826,733 Total visible used
>
> ChkDsk Sizes ChkDsk Output
> 94,763,417,600 92542400 KB total disk space.
> 79,193,509,888 77337412 KB in 189067 files.
> 70,610,944 68956 KB in 18530 indexes.
> 0 0 KB in bad sectors.
> 320,126,976 312624 KB in use by the system.
> 67,108,864 65536 KB occupied by the log file.
> 15,179,169,792 14823408 KB available on disk.
>
> 4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
> 23135600 total allocation units on disk.
> 3705852 allocation units available on disk.
>
> Missing Disk Space
> 79,193,509,888 (chkdsk used)
> - 47,787,826,733 (total visible used)
> ------------------
> 31,405,683,155 (missing disk space)
> So the questions again are:
> 1. What is taking my 31+ gig of disk space?
> 2. How can I get it back?
>
> Thank You,
> -Bryan Andrews
> 314-414-3235 bryan.s.a@gmail.com