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re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive
Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 10:16 am
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Posted by David (669 messages posted)


Hi arthur brogard 

Space will be taken up with virtual memory and if you use Hibernation there will 
be space allocated for a memory image

There are several softwares that show hard drive space utilisations - typically Sequoia 
View -

http://www.win.tue.nl/sequoiaview/ 

David






On Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 4:16 am, arthur brogard wrote:
>
> I've got a little machine here running winXP and with a little 6Gig hard drive in
>it. There's very little software in it at all - virtually only one thing, Powerword.
>
>When I go through all the directories and check their size and add up all the figures
>I get a total of 3gigabytes used.
>
>But checking drive C: details it reports that 5 gigabytes have been used and there's
>only 1gig (barely) of free space.
>
>I've got AVG on it and Comodo firewall.
>
>Where could the missing 2 gigs be?
>
>regards,
>
>ab :)



Written in response to:
Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (arthur brogard: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 4:16 am)

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*re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (arthur brogard: Wednesday, October 10, 2007 at 3:29 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (arthur brogard: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 4:16 am)
-re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (Kevinh: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 5:16 am)
*re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (arthur brogard: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 2:06 pm)
-re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (David: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 10:16 am)
-re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (arthur brogard: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 3:29 pm)
*re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (Rich Kurtz: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 5:24 pm)
*re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (Kevinh: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 11:58 pm)
*re: Two Gigabytes Missing On My Hard Drive (Steve: Wed, Oct 10, 2007, 7:50 pm)
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