Hard drive space unaccounted for

[logclog]

I have never had this happen before, but my hard drive is nearly full, yet when all the files on the drive(yes, hidden too) are added up it totals 63.3 GB.
I have a 150GB HD with only 6 gigs remaining. Thats alot of space unaccounted for that I need. I ran CHKDSK and it fails to complete Any help would be appreciated.

WinXP desktop computer
AMD64 3600+
2GB RAM
150GB HD
250GB HD

 

[mikker]

I had the same issue a couple of months ago. I had total of 500 gig of hard drive space and was only using about 35 gigs at the time but it was showing that it was full. The problem I had was some type of virus. I tried to use several different scanners to remove the virus but had no luck. I tried to delete it from normal and safe mode and still had no luck. So I just formatted the whole thing and started over. Haven't had any other problems since.

 

[wahnula]

LogClog,

WinDirStat:

http://sourceforge.net/projects/windirstat/

...gives you a graphic illustration on how your hard disk space is used and helps find out what's taking up all that space.

Tony

 

[logclog]

Thank you wahnula, that program helped me solve the problem.

Cool program too.