hard drive free space incorrect

[badkitty]

I just tried to install a game and it said i didnt have enough space. WD 76GB is my C and a 120GB is my backup. I am installing on my C and it said i had 3.47GB left. So i uninstalled 2 games that i dont play anymore, totalling 8GB , yet my drive STILL says 3.47gb i even rebooted....ran defrag analyze , norton sysemworks disk doctor, nothing did anything.

Any help ?

 

[Osiris]

turn off your system restore and see how much that give you and hibernate if you have the enabled

download and run CCleaner and Cleaup!

 

[talldude123]

Make sure nothing is left in the recycle bin, and run Disk Cleanup under System tools.

 

[Osiris]

http://www.werkema.com/software/spacemonger.html

 

[EricB]

clear out old restore point when cleaning your temp files

 

[badkitty]

i did all that.....disk cleanup says it cleaned 1.4gb yet drive still shows 3.47GB WTF


diskmonger shows d:/system volume information folder as being 6.4gb which actually sounds alittle more like the space im missing.

 

[EricB]

run checkdisk next

 

[Law]

Consider allocating more harddrive space from your other "120Gb" harddrive if you are running out of room. A good advice is to do a search for files over 50Mb or 100Mb and delete them if you don't need it. That's 50000Kb.

Free open source partitioning software, runs off a CD http://gparted.sourceforge.net/index.php

 

[badkitty]

thats still not addressing the fact that i uninstalled 6GB of games. Before i did it i had 3.47GB..the game i am installing requires 5gb..but even after UNinstalling those games free space hasnt changed.

 

[Law]

Maybe they aren't gone, have you try searching for large files and deleting them?