Disappearing Space

I updated the Thinkpad updater (yeah, I know) on my laptop yesterday. I downloaded the crucial, recommended, and optional updates to the various utilities and tools that an average Thinkpad comes equipped with. The entire package was about 200+ MB but I let it run and proceeded to install them including a crucial BIOS update. But here is the strange part, after completing I found that my hard disk space had reduced by a whopping 14GB. I can’t think of any updates consuming so much space and I am at a loss to understand. Is it normal and expected?

Any techies out there who care to shed some light on this mysterious disappearance of memory space?

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  • Harshad

    Do you have Google Desktop installed? I have had the same problem of losing the harddrive fast, and I zeroed on the index files the google desktop takes. In my case, the index files took a whopping 25 GB ! To see for yourself, look at the size of “c:\Documents And Settings”. If it is unusually large, go down that directory structure to find the hoggers.

    If the above is not the case, then I suggest you install cygwin and use the utility du.

    HTH.

  • http://ipatrix.com Patrix

    Harshad, I uninstalled Google Desktop long time back. The ‘Documents and Settings’ are a mere 2.5GB. In spite of individually checking each folder on the C:\ I can’t see which is the guilty party.

  • Harshad

    Then, as I said, du (comes with cygwin) might help you find the hoggers. Else, there are du like applications available on windows, try googling. One such utility I found, looks neat. You can sort the worst hogger directories based on the disk utilization and then you can also double click them to go deeper.

  • http://ckunte.com/ Chetan

    If you want to track down disk usage, look for some disk usage viewer freeware: http://dmoz.org/Computers/Software/Disk_Management/

    A pie-chart of your disk would tell you where the majority of your space is consumed.

  • http://ipatrix.com Patrix

    Thanks guys. I downloaded TreeSize Professional which gave me a good picture. It turns out that most of the space is hogged in creating a restore point post-updates…almost 7GB.


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