Disappearing Hard Drive Space???

[Kitt2003]

I have 20GB partition for C: and 60GB for D:.

I downloaded a few big files (some tv show episodes) and they went to the C:, but I was running out of space so I moved em to D:, yet now theyre physically on D:, but taking up space on both drives. I ran all those utilities and disk cleanup and system restore date cleaner thing (you know) and the space is still missing. Then I was just curious and I checked the properties on the 3 folders (docs and settings, prog files, windows) and it only adds up to something like 14GB, not almost 19GB (I have 660MB left on C.

Anyone know what the problem is? Space is just being taken by some unknown something and it's pissing me off.

 

[Dagatech]

have you emptied the recycling bin? check the swap file, defrag the drive, get a program that will show you a graphical display of the drive so you can find whatever is taking up space. I like sequioa

 

[usbeef]

The paging file takes up a lot of space, and there are a lot of hidden files and folders that windows hides by default. You don't seems to have any real problem, just running low on space, by default the recycle bin reserves 10% of your drive space, by default system restore reserves 12% of your drive space, the hibernation file is huge and uneeded. Go into the recycle bin properties and turn it down to 1%, then go into the control panel, select system, system restore and either turn it off if you don't use it or turn the reservation percentage down to 3% max, then go into power options in control panel and disable hibernation.