Reported disk usage greater than actual

[AverageJoe]

I have partitioned my disk in two, a 10GB for WinXP and the rest for stuff in
general.
I've only had this rig running for two days and already the nice pie chart
says i have used 8.75 of the 10gb but lookin at the folders themselves i have
only used 5.8gb and I expect it to stay like this as no new software will be
going on this disk.

I found similar probs in a ancient post but that related to a problem with
MSOffice for Macs and I have also looked at the Sys restore but even if this
was taking its full quota of 1200Mb it still doesnt account for all the space
I'm missing.

Does anyone know why there is this discrepencys? I dont want to have to re
partition the system within the next week if it carries on filling up.

 

[SBS Rocker]

Perhaps your pagefile sys?

"AverageJoe" <AverageJoe@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:70BA51B9-B272-4755-B5CB-74DF38A876EE@microsoft.com...
>I have partitioned my disk in two, a 10GB for WinXP and the rest for stuff
>in
> general.
> I've only had this rig running for two days and already the nice pie chart
> says i have used 8.75 of the 10gb but lookin at the folders themselves i
> have
> only used 5.8gb and I expect it to stay like this as no new software will
> be
> going on this disk.
>
> I found similar probs in a ancient post but that related to a problem
> with
> MSOffice for Macs and I have also looked at the Sys restore but even if
> this
> was taking its full quota of 1200Mb it still doesnt account for all the
> space
> I'm missing.
>
> Does anyone know why there is this discrepencys? I dont want to have to re
> partition the system within the next week if it carries on filling up.

 

[AverageJoe]

Thanks, you were right.
I didnt think that xp would allocate that much space when the system was
idle but there you go it does, it just went ahead and claimed 2Gb.
Thanks again

"SBS Rocker" wrote:

> Perhaps your pagefile sys?