Drive C: reporting 118GB usage when only 54 GB in use?
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From: Henry Wilt Henry on 31 May 2010 23:40 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.
From: Susan Bradley on 1 Jun 2010 00:51 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: Brian Cryer on 1 Jun 2010 05:00 "Henry Wilt" <Henry Wilt(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:22D944D6-C3B7-4D31-8C62-2710BF1DB8FD(a)microsoft.com... >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. I would guess that you either have a number of hidden files which are taking up the space or a logical corruption of your disk which means that you've lost a lot of space. The latter seems unlikly, but run a disk check to be sure. To help identify where the space has gone I suggest you download TreeSize Free from http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml Its a very intuitive tool and will show you where the disk space is being used. Hope this helps. -- Brian Cryer http://www.cryer.co.uk/brian
From: Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP] on 1 Jun 2010 06:58 Agreeing and adding that you may find that for many programs including cmd prompt, and most utilities, "rclick - run as administrator" will serve up more useful information than standard clicking. - Larry Please post the resolution to your issue so others may benefit - Get Your SBS Health Check at www.sbsbpa.com > "Henry Wilt" <Henry Wilt(a)discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message > news:22D944D6-C3B7-4D31-8C62-2710BF1DB8FD(a)microsoft.com... > >> 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. > I would guess that you either have a number of hidden files which are > taking up the space or a logical corruption of your disk which means > that you've lost a lot of space. The latter seems unlikly, but run a > disk check to be sure. > > To help identify where the space has gone I suggest you download > TreeSize Free from http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml > Its a very intuitive tool and will show you where the disk space is > being used. > > Hope this helps. >
From: Joe on 1 Jun 2010 14:22
On 01/06/10 11:58, Larry Struckmeyer[SBS-MVP] wrote: > > Agreeing and adding that you may find that for many programs including > cmd prompt, and most utilities, "rclick - run as administrator" will > serve up more useful information than standard clicking. > And even that won't help for all the stuff with system-only permissions, and other places where admins can't go, such as other users' roaming profiles. While it's always possible for an admin to take ownership and therefore grant himself permissions, I wonder if this is ever checked. It is routine in other operating systems for software to refuse to run if permissions on sensitive files are incorrect. -- Joe |