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[Ian Harris]

I'm trying to load some new software onto my server (Visual Studio and SQl Server 2005) but the 4GB C:\ Drive does not have enough space. All it has on it at the moment is the Operating system, and I can only see about 2.2GB of space being used. I've got 144 GB in my G:\ Drive but, even if I change the installation path, the software is still trying to load onto the C:\. Is there any way I can expand the C:\ drive, or find where my missing 1.8GB is? There is just one disc, its just split into C:\ and G:\ drive sectors).

Any assistance from any OS experts would be much appreciated.

[weeksy2]

The 1.8Gb is your windows swap file to all intents and purposes. You need to click on Tools > Folder Options > View then view hidden files and folders.

Also go into a web page, Tools > Internet Options > Temporary Internet files > Settings , see what it's set to.

It's going to likely be one of the above that's causing it.

Got to a location http://www.tucows.com and search for something called Treesize. THis runs and tells you what size all your folders are (including hidden folders etc) you'll then be able to see where it's all being eaten up


Yuo can in Explorer got to each folder in turn, right click, properties and it will tell you the folder size. Will take a bit of time, but you'll get tehre by the process of elimination.

[Ian Harris]

Cheers Weeksy, even I should have thought of checking hidden files and folders....I'll down load the Treesize utility and see what that tells me.

Thanks.