Well...I was installing some addons today for my FSX, and all of the sudden i realized my XP drive(the one included my FSX) only have 30.1GB of space left! and the original space i gave it was 120GB. So i checked my FSX folder, it's only 36.8GB big with my addons, i have more than that installed, however on a different drive. Then i checked my GTA IV folder, which turns up to be 15.6GB big, but really thats about all the big programs i installed on this OS. But that's only 52.4GB, I have no video or pictures or music stored on this drive, and the rest of the programs are all installed on my other drives. I do have MS word installed on the drive, but that's only 1GB in size, and other than that....i basically don't have anything installed... All my downloaded files are downloaded to another drive as well, so that cannot be the problem.

 

 

 

Yes, i have used Ccleaner, and 30.1GB is the size AFTER it cleaned all the stuff out...

 

 

 

So basically i lost around 67GB ish of hard drive to nowhere....and now it's getting kinda crowded for me to install addons in...any idea on where it might be? :?:

 

 

 

EDIT: I checked my documents and setting folder, it's around 8GB in size(why so big?) ok, so now i got 59GB more to go....

 

Then i checked my program files folder, minus FSX and GTA IV, it's 5.6GB. So now i got 53.4 GB missing..... the rest of the folder in the drive is only 500MB total in size...

 

This is all the places files might be at that i can think of....so...any ideas?

I've found that sometimes temporary files can take up alot of space. Programs that you've uninstalled but haven't removed the contents of can also be the problem.

 

 

 

But I'm not a techie.

but those files take up to 53GB is kinda unrealistic...and Ccleaner cleans the temp file.

I believe there's a problem that shows you the biggest files and folders on your HD... The name escapes me :wall:. Just use Google and I'm sure you'll find something.

 

Sorry I couldn't be more specific.

Do you use any video programs, like FRAPS?

with moleskinsoft directory size you can find al your big files fairly easy

Well....for some reason, when i turn on my computer today, my XP drive is down to 28.2GB today! UGH! :evil: I did not install or download anything yesterday at all...i run disk cleanup, but it only came up with 328KB of files....

 

 

 

to ultimania92, i do use fraps, however i delete all the things i recorded after i upload my videos. Plus, it's recording to a different drive anyways.

 

 

 

I used moleskinsoft directory size, and i end up with 76884.34MB, which i think is 76.8GB of space used(still surprising..cuz i REALLY didn't install anything...) So i used 76.8GB of space out of my 120GB drive, and i'm supposed to have 28.2GB of free space left?? They don't add up to 120 in anyways..(Windows show up as 117, but those numbers still don't add up....) i'm still missing 43.2GB here....it does not looks like someone hacked into my computer and used my computer as storage, cuz then it should show up in the software as a giant file(or should it..?) plus i got all clean from all of my AV and AS softwares.

 

 

 

I just shrink the space allowed for system restore points from max to min...(from 14GB to 1GB), and i got 7GB of my space back(DAMN! why do they take up so much space??) So now i'm missing 36.2GB... where could that be? I searched all over google, and system restore points is like the last place i can get from google...so idk....where else can i go to find my space back? xD