My Hard drive is full ?

[tunaticer]

Send to does not delete from the first drive it copies it to the destination Phill.
Go back and delete the files you meant to cut and paste or MOVE to the USB stick.

[TheRealAndy]

Oh, and when you delete, if you hit shift at the same time it goes for good rather than going in the recylce bin (hit shift, right click, then delete).

[Lucky_Phill]

That aint windirstat, this is: https://windirstat.info/ and this is the (still free) download: http://www.fosshub.com/download/wind..._1_2_setup.exe

Its just a treeview, and it has a indicators to show you how much each directory is taking up. drill down into that directory to find out whats using up all you diskpace.

It look like this:

Left side shows you folders/directories, right sid shows you what file types are taking up all the space. Bottom is some shit that is pointless, but dont let that distract you from the real power off that application. Once insalled, it takes a few minutes to chug over you hard drive and discover eveything.

well why did winstat thing re-direct me to somne other friggin web address ?

I will attempt to download it again

[Lucky_Phill]

OK seems i haven't made myself CLEAR.

I sent files to the USB

I also " deleted " the same files and they ended up in the recycle bin

I emptied the recycle bin and the files were gone.

the files equalled 10.4gb

I now have 1.2 GB space left on my hard drive, so it seems I did not delete anything from the hard drive...

Question....... why did it not get deleted from the hard drive ?

[Lucky_Phill]

OK, for the IT retarded folks here..... that'll be me... what am I looking for ?

All I want to do is free up some space on my 80gb Hard drive ?

[Lucky_Phill]

OK, Thanks Andy. I found the specific items I thought I sent to the recycle bin.

I remoeved them, by sending ti recycle bin and emptied the bin.... I now have 17 GB space freed up

cheers

[Lucky_Phill]

this looks a lot better

[Scalem]

Hey Phil, I just found 30Gb of disk space on my old laptop because there was an app that in this case, Lenovo Thinkvantage was taking automated backups and hiding on a separate disk partition. Do a search on yours for "rescue and recovery" and you never know what you might find. Just a thought you might be accruing backups you don't really need if you are backing up other ways such as external media or cloud. Worked for me!

Now that you have found some disk space, do a disk defrag too.....

Cheers

Scalem

[Lucky_Phill]

pic of properties after defrag ( took about 50 minutes )

[Lucky_Phill]

I gained .5 of a GB from the defrag... ??

[marto78]

This is a defrag :

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-au/w...#1TC=windows-7

Seeing as how you have done this now do a "disk cleanup".

It is surprising how much extra crap is stored on your hard drive that can be cleaned up by this.

After reading this thread I remembered to do mine and there was an extra 13.4 Gb of crap on there that is now deleted.

[tunaticer]

Disc cleanup should be performed prior to defrags, disc cleanup can leave behind substantial fragments.

Have you purged the registry Phill? Second thoughts, do not attempt it Phill, pay someone to do it for you.