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From: Duncan McC on 1 Jun 2010 23:47
In article <22D944D6-C3B7-4D31-8C62-2710BF1DB8FD(a)microsoft.com>, =?Utf-
8?B?SGVucnkgV2lsdA==?= says...
>
> I hope someone can offer me some advice on this as it is causing me problems.
> As I have said in the title, when I check the proerties of my drive C: it
> shows 118GB usage which I don't think is correct. I only have the SBS 2008
> installation plus Kaspersky AV plus one other small program which is using
> less than 4MB. I have run a DIR list of all files in the drive in a dos
> window and that shows 54.4GB usage so I don't know where or what the other
> usage could be.
> Any advice or suggestions would be gratefully received.

In addition to what the others have mentioned, it might pay to run a
chkdsk c: /f - to ensure there are no file (space) allocation errors.

--
Duncan.
From: Henry Wilt on 2 Jun 2010 21:28
Thank you very much Susan, after 2 days of struggling with this I have
managed to reclaim in the region of 57GB of disk space! I think the problems
should be resolved now.
Thanks also to Brian for the Treesize program, that proved very useful in
resolving the problem. And to Larry as well for reminding me about running as
Administrator, that is something I regularlly forget. (Isn't there someway in
which that can be automated when you're logged in as Admiistrator anyway?)
Also Duncan, I had tried running chkdsk but wasn't getting any joy in that
as I'd forgotten to run command prompt as Administrator : (, but thanks for
the suggestion.

"Susan Bradley" wrote:

> Henry Wilt wrote:
> > I hope someone can offer me some advice on this as it is causing me problems.
> > As I have said in the title, when I check the proerties of my drive C: it
> > shows 118GB usage which I don't think is correct. I only have the SBS 2008
> > installation plus Kaspersky AV plus one other small program which is using
> > less than 4MB. I have run a DIR list of all files in the drive in a dos
> > window and that shows 54.4GB usage so I don't know where or what the other
> > usage could be.
> > Any advice or suggestions would be gratefully received.
> >
> SBS 2008?
> http://blogs.technet.com/b/sbs/archive/2010/03/02/recovering-disk-space-on-the-c-drive-in-small-business-server-2008.aspx
> .
>
From: Joe on 3 Jun 2010 04:27
On 03/06/10 02:28, Henry Wilt wrote:
> Thank you very much Susan, after 2 days of struggling with this I have
> managed to reclaim in the region of 57GB of disk space! I think the problems
> should be resolved now.
> Thanks also to Brian for the Treesize program, that proved very useful in
> resolving the problem. And to Larry as well for reminding me about running as
> Administrator, that is something I regularlly forget. (Isn't there someway in
> which that can be automated when you're logged in as Admiistrator anyway?)

In Vista/7/2008, you might be logged on as an admin, but if the User
Account Control is active, you don't actually have admin privileges. If
you try a high-privilege task in a graphical environment, you will be
asked to confirm the action, but the command line doesn't have that
ability built in, and must use an actual admin login.

It's not bad, but I'd also like to see a configurable period within
which further actions are automatically approved. It's not really a
problem when you're only doing one or two things, but it starts getting
in the way when you have a lot of small things to do and almost every
other click is a confirmation.

--
Joe
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