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   Subject: Re: Disk reports FULL even after deletes, etc   
   Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 15:12:40 -0600   
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   news:a198f7fa-2a54-4626-a79a-87a98933e8c3@z17g2000prz.googlegroups.com...   
   > Greetings:   
   >   
   > I am having a problem whereby my disk is reporting as FULL (123MB   
   > remaining on a 18.6GB drive)   
   >   
   > ODDITY 1:   
   > When I add up the sizes of the files on the drive, it comes to just   
   > under 13GB. Even adding in space reserved for system restore, this   
   > takes it to 15GB   
   >   
   > ODDITY 2:   
   > Running disk clean-up, it shows that it should recover approximately   
   > 2GB.....but after running and even rebooting, the available space   
   > jumped up to only about 400MB....and then on subsequent reboot when   
   > back to only 123MB.   
   >   
   > How can I find out what is taking up the free space on the drive and   
   > remove it?   
   >   
   > Thank you!   
      
      
   By default, System Restore is set way too large to be of any use other than    
   hogging hard drive space.   
      
   Turn it down to something like 4% or so    
      
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