C Drive capacity erroneous reading havenlad 10/20/2008 4:29:00 PM I have a user who is unable to save anything over 200M Going into My Computer shows 250M free, yet going into the CD drive, showing all hidden folders and system files etc, selecting all of them and clicking on properties shows only 5.5G of 20G in use. There is almost 14G seemingly in use but I can't see it. Is there a way of finding this disk space and claiming it back? Thanks Havenlad

Re: C Drive capacity erroneous reading "JS" <[ at ]> 10/20/2008 4:46:08 PM Two utilities that will show how much disk space each folder occupies. JDiskReport http://www.jgoodies.com/freeware/jdiskreport/ TreeSize Free http://www.jam-software.com/freeware/index.shtml JS http://www.pagestart.com "havenlad" <havenlad[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2097CB44-9581-4BCC-BB2C-FA6609FA9D8C[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I have a user who is unable to save anything over 200M > > Going into My Computer shows 250M free, yet going into the CD drive, > showing > all hidden folders and system files etc, selecting all of them and > clicking > on properties shows only 5.5G of 20G in use. There is almost 14G > seemingly > in use but I can't see it. > > Is there a way of finding this disk space and claiming it back? > > Thanks > > Havenlad > > > >

Re: C Drive capacity erroneous reading "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan[ at ]SBXXXIX.com> 10/20/2008 5:27:38 PM "havenlad" <havenlad[ at ]discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:2097CB44-9581-4BCC-BB2C-FA6609FA9D8C[ at ]microsoft.com... [Quoted Text] >I have a user who is unable to save anything over 200M > > Going into My Computer shows 250M free, yet going into the CD drive, > showing > all hidden folders and system files etc, selecting all of them and > clicking > on properties shows only 5.5G of 20G in use. There is almost 14G > seemingly > in use but I can't see it. > > Is there a way of finding this disk space and claiming it back? > > Thanks > > Havenlad > > > > You might want to check if Disk Quotas have been enabled on the C drive. Check the Quotas tab on the drive's Properties sheet. Good luck Nepatsfan

Re: C Drive capacity erroneous reading "Twayne" <nobody[ at ]devnull.spamcop.net> 10/21/2008 4:52:15 PM [Quoted Text] > I have a user who is unable to save anything over 200M > > Going into My Computer shows 250M free, yet going into the CD drive, > showing all hidden folders and system files etc, selecting all of > them and clicking on properties shows only 5.5G of 20G in use. There > is almost 14G seemingly in use but I can't see it. > > Is there a way of finding this disk space and claiming it back? > > Thanks > > Havenlad You left out a lot of details so here's one guess. See if this sounds like a possibility: Assuming you mean the user can't save over 200M to a CD (which you didn't say): It's a CD-RW your'e talking about and there have been files deleted from it. Deleting those files does not recover the space they occupied on several types of CDs. Also if you write one session, finish it, then start another session, on many of them, the olde data is gone and only the new data shows up. But the old data is still there, taking up space. The only way to get all the space back is to erase or reformat the CD. Whatever you're using to look at file space may be simply displaying the number of files visible; meaning, it doesn't see all the old files. Thus can't count right. If you look at the CD with your burnere program, you should be able to get a look at exactly what is on the CD and what the remaining writeable space is. If they don't add up to the right numbers it's becuse of something akin to the above. I've even had that happen on -R CDs; but of course you can never reclaim the space in any way on those. Once you burn it, that space is gone forever. Try reading here: -- How to Post a newsgroup question effectively: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375 HTH Twayne

Re: C Drive capacity erroneous reading "Twayne" <nobody[ at ]devnull.spamcop.net> 10/21/2008 4:54:33 PM [Quoted Text] > I have a user who is unable to save anything over 200M Hard drive? CD drive? What? > > Going into My Computer shows 250M free, yet going into the *CD* drive, The "CD" makes no sense in this context if you mean a system hard drive. > showing all hidden folders and system files etc, selecting all of > them and clicking on properties shows only 5.5G of 20G in use. There > is almost 14G seemingly in use but I can't see it. What are you using to look at it, and exactly what are you looking at? > > Is there a way of finding this disk space and claiming it back? Yes. No. Maybe. Take your pick. Or, How to Post a newsgroupquestion effectively: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/q555375