Hard Drive filling up somehow

[cdoss]

A 3GB HD only about 10% used. In the last month or so the HD is almost completly full. ScanDisk tells me I have 2.9GB in 7,365 files but I can't find them in Explorer. Ran McAfee virus scan and found nothing. BTW this PC is running Win95...I know stop laughing...it serves it's purpose.
Any help would be appreciated,thank you for reading this.

 

[Enkrypted]

I would recommend running the Disk Defragmenter. That will help re-allocate some free space on your computer. Think of it like a giant jigsaw puzzle When your drive becomes fragmented, it means that it has to search your hard drive for all the puzzle pieces to put the puzzle together when you open a program. If those pieces aren't close together it will take up alot of room and make it harder for your computer to locate those pieces. See the link below for more information on Disk Defragmenting.

http://www.cyberwalker.net/faqs/how-tos/defrag-faq.html

Enkrypted
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[cdoss]

Thank you for the Defrag idea. Tried that yesterday,it stayed at 33% for a long time but kept chuggin' along so I let it run overnite. This morning it was done 100% and the used space only dropped to 2.6GB.

 

[PRPhx]

Download, install and run System Mechanic. It will search out al those unneccessary files. It will find your .bak, .log, .tmp and zero length files. Also clean your registry. Then do another defrag. Also try running scandisk.

 

[kmcferrin]

Is Explorer configured to show hidden and system files? There should be a pagefile.sys file in the root of C: that is usually quite large. Also, if it has crashed and done a memory dump there may be some large files on it.

One of my favorite system utilities is called Treesize Pro from JAM software. You can download a time-limited evaluation from their web site. It scans the filesystem on your hard disk and presents graphical charts of the relative sizes of of your files and directories. For example, if it shows that C:\Program Files is taking up 50% of your disk space, you can expand that directory and see the sizes of all of the subdirectories and file in C:\Program Files. Then just keep repeating the process until you see where the big files are.

I use it pretty regularly to see which of my users are eating up the most space on the file server.