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by: tempered123 August 19, 2009 11:02 AM PDT

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Windows 2003 R2 SP2 - C:\ drive running our of free space

by tempered123 - 8/19/09 11:02 AM

I am currently running Windows 2003 R2 SP, and my C drive has a capacity of 70 GB. I am having an issue where my hard drive space is disappearing automatically and very quickly.

When I look in windows explorer/my computer it shows that I have 3.95 gb free but when I select all the folders and files in the c drive it only adds up to 6gb.

Hidden files and folders are selected to be shown, I have also run a search on the c drive for any files that are greater then 50MB and I only come up with about 2GB.

There are no chances of this being caused by spyware or viruses.

I have run the chkdsk command and here is the output received:

The type of the file system is NTFS.

WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.

CHKDSK is verifying files (stage 1 of 3)...
35264 file records processed.
File verification completed.
56 large file records processed.
0 bad file records processed.
0 EA records processed.
0 reparse records processed.
CHKDSK is verifying indexes (stage 2 of 3)...
119212 index entries processed.
Index verification completed.
5 unindexed files processed.
CHKDSK is verifying security descriptors (stage 3 of 3)...
35264 security descriptors processed.
Security descriptor verification completed.
2101 data files processed.

71644783 KB total disk space.
67733056 KB in 33051 files.
10020 KB in 2103 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
62995 KB in use by the system.
23040 KB occupied by the log file.
3838712 KB available on disk.

4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
17911195 total allocation units on disk.
959678 allocation units available on disk.

As you can see it displays that there is only 3.8 GB free but this is not correct.

At the rate the free space is disappearing I will be out of space in approximately 4 days.

i just wanted to clarify that when i highlight all the files contained in the C:\ drive and view the properties they value only adds up to 6GB...... meaning that I should have about 62GB free space and not the 3.5GB that windows is showing

Any assistance would be appreciated.

Thanks,


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What I read ...

by Kees Bakker Moderator - 8/19/09 11:12 AM

In Reply to: Windows 2003 R2 SP2 - C:\ drive running our of free space by tempered123

67733056 KB in 33051 files. That's not 67 KB, not 6 GB.

Things to do:
1. Chkdsk or scandisk (whatever it's called in Windows 2003) to check the integrity of the filesystem.
2. TREESIZE (free download) to find the space used by each folder. You should be able to find something like 61 GB.

Kees


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Re: what i read

by tempered123 - 8/19/09 11:31 AM

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Agreed..... 67733056KB represents the formatted availability that can be used after formatting a 72GB disk

the output commented on is from a chkdsk command run from command prompt, i have also run a scandisk and no errors are produced.

i will try the Treesize file and let you know the result.


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treesize result

by tempered123 - 8/19/09 11:40 AM

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i ran tree size and it indicates that only 8GB is being used by the C:\ drive


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Re: treesize

by Kees Bakker Moderator - 8/20/09 12:21 AM

In Reply to: treesize result by tempered123

In XP, there's a folder called System Information Volume that's being used by System Restore. For normal purposes it's inaccessible. Treesize reports it as having 0 bytes but notes it's inaccessible.

Sometimes, for some reason, there's 40 GB in it that folder. Turning off System Restore (and on again) normally clears it. Occasionally, however, there's such strange data in it, that it needs to be cleared manually. For that you need to make it accessible with the grant option of the cacls command. Then use Explorer.

http://forums.cnet.com/5208-6142_102-0.html?messageID=2948280#2948280 links to an old thread about it.

But that's XP. I don't know about Server 2003. Sorry.

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Server 2003 has similar.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 8/20/09 4:35 AM

In Reply to: Re: treesize by Kees Bakker Moderator

Your advice is accurate but the administrator of Server 2003 just needs to get out the books or take the classes on Server 2003. For the premium and price of Server 2003 they should take the time to take a class or seminar about it.
Bob


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space error c drive

by swahid - 10/10/09 1:02 AM

In Reply to: Windows 2003 R2 SP2 - C:\ drive running our of free space by tempered123

Windows 2003 R2 SP2 - C:\ drive running our of free space
I am currently running Windows 2003 R2 SP, and my C drive has a capacity of 50 GB. ... have about 18 GB free space and not the 3.5GB that windows is showing ... Sometimes, for some reason, there's 40 GB in it that folder. ...


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Read the above again.

by R. Proffitt Moderator - 10/10/09 4:56 AM

In Reply to: space error c drive by swahid

There was a nice tool mentioned but your post does not have a question.

A question would end with the question mark plus you may supply more details that would help members help you. Remember this is not tech support.
Bob


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Change page file management

by creamerk - 11/2/09 5:45 PM

In Reply to: Windows 2003 R2 SP2 - C:\ drive running our of free space by tempered123

Here is a fix that got me 8GB of space on a 48GB C:\ drive that was using more space than seemed right.

I had a D:\ drive with lots of space so I changed how virtual memory was managed and where the files were kept. Running Server 2003, with multiple logical drives you can set the C:\ drive as "Custom" and set its lower and upper limit at something larger than 200MB and set the other drive with free space, at "System managed". On a Server 2008 system, the page file upper and lower limits must be above 500MB

After a system reboot my available space on the C:\ drive went from 28GB to 36GB.....the amount of space being used on the C:\ drive and the amount of space regained is related to the amount of available RAM.

Moral of the story is go BIG when you build your 64 bit Server 2008 systems because that extra RAM and MS patches/service packs are going to take lots of C:\ space.

CowboyIT


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